A round of applause erupted at last Tuesday’s board of education meeting after officials announced two of the CAD (Computer Aided Design) classes would be making a comeback for the 2006-07 school year. The classes were temporarily suspended at Oxford High School for the 2005-06 school year due to declining enrollment, but the outlook for […]
Congratulations to the 30 Oxford High School DECA students who became finalists at Michigan DECA’s 60th annual State Career Development Conference in Dearborn the weekend of March 10. Out of the 53 students from OHS who participated, 42 won medals at the state competition and 30 finalists qualified to compete at the 60th Annual High […]
Results for the latest set of Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) testing were released from the Michigan Department of Education March 9 and Oxford officials say they’re pleased. Despite several changes in testing this year, which included a consolidation of testing for grades 4-8 for the first time and the addition of testing for third-graders, […]
Many people can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on 9/11, the day Kennedy was shot and of course, when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. Barbara Youngs, now 76, shared her memory of the attack Monday with Barbara Johnston’s fourth-grade class at Oxford Elementary School. Johnston is Youngs? daughter. […]
Some people just can’t decorate a room to save their life. If that shade of green you painted on your living room wall just doesn’t match the pillows on your couch and if you’re constantly tripping over that poorly placed ottoman, you’re in luck. Oxford resident Jay Rogers started his own interior design business, JDR […]
Oxford’s Board of Education voted unanimously March 14 to allow students who live outside of the district to attend Oxford schools for the 2006-07 school year, but there are stipulations. Superintendent Virgina Brennan-Kyro suggested opening the schools on a ‘limited basis,? meaning only those districts which border the Oxford district, such as Lapeer or Romeo, […]
Ortonville-When Bob Service was asked to stand in as pastor at Oakwood Community Church in 1966, he admits he had second thoughts. The building was a former school house that was in bad shape, to say the least. The sinking floor was laden with pots and pans to catch water from the leaking roof, curtains […]
Authorities in Brandon Twp. are saying Monday’s high winds and bad-timing are to blame for the tragic accident that occurred on Sherwood Road, a quarter-mile west of Baldwin, and left one man dead. It appears high winds caused a large oak tree split down the center and fall, crushing the cab of a 1977 Ford […]
Addison Township authorities are urging business owners in Oxford and Addison to be on the look out for a possible serial armed robber. The male suspect robbed the Addison Foods store on 31 E. Elmwood Street in Leonard around 9:45 Monday morning with a silver semi-automatic handgun. Sgt. Pete Burkett, Addison’s sheriff substation commander, said […]
Did you know it’s not proper etiquette to ask ‘who’s calling? when answering the phone? Or do you know how to properly eat your soup? Oxford resident Pamela Barc knows, and she’s making it her goal to teach the young and old the basics of etiquette. While owning a preschool in Auburn Hills, Barc received […]