What do you get when you throw a 24-year-old, opinionated, straight male from Oxford with a 38-year-old, gay male marketing executive from San Francisco? You get Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary television series, 30 Days. Last year, Spurlock chronicled his own 30 days of eating nothing but McDonald’s for his film Supersize Me. The Manhattan resident […]
Congratulations to Oxford High School graduate Sean McDonald for his outstanding achievements in technology from the Oakland Technical Campus (Otech) on May 20. McDonald, 17, received the Dean’s Award for having all A’s and outstanding attendance from the Otech morning session. He was nominated by teachers for this award and also received a plaque and […]
Michelle Phelan, 28, of Northbranch (formerly of Oxford) and her sister Amanda Strang, 11, (still of Oxford), got their hair snipped at the Roots salon for the Locks of Love cancer organization. Their hair, a combined 24 inches, will be donated towards Rachel Sigmund, a young girl with allopecia. ‘Why just sweep it up into […]
When Mick Steiner and his wife Mary moved to Oxford last summer, he sensed there was a problem in their neighborhood. It wasn’t the neighbors, they were friendly. The houses were beautiful and well kept. Something just didn’t smell right. It just so happened the problem was that four days out of the week there […]
Mike and Darlene Hendrix are not just partners in marriage, they’re partners in their occupation as well. The Hendrix’s, who’ve been married 40 years and lived in Oxford since 1971, have been sales associates for Coldwell Banker Shooltz Realty in Oxford for the past decade. Mike worked for GM for 34 years and said he […]
On Thursday, June 30, the Veteran’s Memorial Statue in Centennial Park was dedicated by the Oxford American Legion. Hundreds of veterans old and young gathered to honor the 44 men from Oxford who were killed in action and are named on the statue. James Parkhurst, of the American Legion Post 108 read about the various […]
Some might take for granted how important driving a school bus really is. They greet your children every day. The lives of your children are in their hands and they do it all with 50 plus students facing their backs. Some parents can’t even handle a trip to the store with two children in the […]
Anybody who’s driven down Lakeville Rd. and passed Addison Township’s Fire Station 2 knows it’s time for a change. Just last August, the new 12,000 square foot Fire Station 1 near Leonard was built and has become an eye-pleasing site along Forest Road. Fire Station 2, on the other hand, needs a little work. ‘It’s […]
Blues fans young and old battled the heat and enjoyed the beat of the highly anticipated Hot Blues and BBQ Festival last Saturday behind the Oxford municipal complex. Approximately 1,400 people from near and far spent the morning and evening engulfed in the music of acts like Lady Sunshine and the X Band, blues pioneer, […]
When the Oxford School Board announced its budget reduction plans in April, its proposed strategy to cut various athletic programs ? such as boys and girls golf ? and extracurricular clubs at the high school and middle school levels drew tons of criticism from the public. After many meetings with a committee of concerned parents, […]