Effective Oct. 1, water and sewer customers in Oxford Village will experience a large increase in their monthly bills as the municipality seeks to stop losing money and start covering its costs for those utilities. Last week, council voted 4-1 to adopt ordinance amendments that charge water and sewer users a flat, monthly base rate […]
A small residential development proposed to be built in the southwestern portion of Oxford Township will be the subject of a 7 p.m. public hearing before the planning commission on Thursday, Aug. 28 at the Oxford Veterans Memorial Civic Center (28 N. Washington St.). White Pine Estates is the name of the proposed development and […]
Scott Woody never achieved his dream of becoming a teacher, officially, but he was one in every sense of the word. From February 2003 to November 2012, he played a pivotal role educating students as a tutorial assistant with Oxford High School’s successful automotive program. ‘He made it almost a personal mission to see (to […]
Addison Township’s fire department is nearly halfway to its goal of raising enough funds to purchase a life-saving piece of emergency medical equipment. Thanks to the generosity of the Four County Community Foundation, based in Almont, and Precision Pipeline, based in Wisconsin, the department has $7,500 to put toward the purchase of an Auto Pulse […]
Truckers producing excessive noise by using compression release engine brakes, commonly known as Jake brakes, could soon find themselves being ticketed by Oxford Village Police. Last week, council approved the first reading of a proposed ordinance amendment that would prohibit the use of this type of braking system in the village by classifying it as […]
It’s been 10 months since its representatives met with the Oxford Township Planning Commission, but a Bingham Farms-based company is still planning to build a 360-unit multiple family residential development just north of the village. ‘We’re working on our plans (and) expect to have them submitted to the township within the next month or two […]
Work on an 8,500-square-foot addition/interior renovation project at the Oxford Township Hall (300 Dunlap Rd.) is expected to begin by Sept. 1. Last week, the township board voted 7-0 to hire the Orion Township-based Dailey Company to do the construction work for the bid price of $1.019 million. The company submitted the lowest of the […]
An attempt to amend Oxford Township’s ordinance language concerning political signs so it reflects state law failed last week. Treasurer Joe Ferrari proposed the ordinance be amended so that political signs located in public right-of-ways must include the identification statements required by the Michigan Campaign Finance Act. ‘I would like to have signs in public […]
In a single stroke last week, the Oxford Township Board saved sewer customers $70,871. Officials voted 7-0 to prepay the township’s share of the cost for repairs and improvements to the Oakland-Macomb Interceptor (OMI) Drain rather than make 20 years worth of debt service payments on an estimated $8 million bond issue. The prepay amount […]
Things didn’t turn out as Evan Berofsky had hoped at the 2014 National Scrabble Championship last week. The 38-year-old Oxford resident placed 20th out of 63 competitors in his division. He won 17 games and loss 14 over the course of the five-day tournament held in Buffalo, New York. ‘People have asked me, ‘Was it […]