I’m afraid to take out my wallet in public these days with so many local government officials casting covetous eyes upon my hard-earned dollars. It seems like everybody and his brother is asking for either a tax increase or a new tax on the August and November ballots. We the taxpayers are much like gazelles […]
Banbury Cross Therapeutic Equestrian Center (1223 Brauer Rd.) in Metamora Twp. hosted its 24th Annual Derby Day Celebration on Saturday. Centered around the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, the event featured silent and live auctions, chances to pick the Derby’s winning horse, a parade featuring some of Banbury’s riders, horses and […]
Pure joy. That’s the most accurate way to describe the prom held for Oxford’s special education students and members of the LOFT program Saturday evening at Merge Studio and Gallery located at 33 Pleasant St. Approximately 40 young people with various mental and physical disabilities, including some from Lake Orion High School, came together to […]
It appears funding the fix for pothole hill has hit another roadblock ? a legal roadblock. Last week, the Oxford Village Council voted 3-2 to authorize Manager Joe Young to enter into preliminary negotiations with the township to borrow up to $500,000 for five years in order to reconstruct the badly-deteriorated, pothole-ridden stretch of W. […]
For the second straight year, students from Oxford High School’s automotive program have won a state championship and secured a spot in the national competition in June. Last week, OHS seniors Mike Smith and Alan LaBarge won the state finals of the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition held at the Macomb Community College Expo Center […]
To many folks, an old pair of jeans is something to wear while doing yardwork or donate to charity. But at Christ the King Church in Oxford Township, an old pair of jeans took on a whole new and much deeper meaning on Sunday. Piles of old jeans were transformed into shoes, jobs and hope […]
Only 36 high school seniors from around the country received contingent admission offers from the University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. And Oxford High School senior Kathryn Flanagan is one of them. ‘It’s such an honor,? she said. ‘You work so hard in high school that you wonder if this is ever […]
Twenty quilts that will be given to women with unplanned pregnancies in the hopes they will choose to either keep their babies or put them up for adoption were blessed Sunday morning at the Oxford Free Methodist Church. Known as Loving Lamb quilts, they were made by the church’s Quilters for Life group for the […]
Only four people showed up to a special April 22 Oxford Village Council meeting meant to garner public input on a proposed water/sewer rate structure that, if approved, would significantly increase monthly bills based on meter size and actual usage. Of the citizens in attendance, no one expressed any opposition to what was proposed. ‘I […]
It was a night they’ll remember for the rest of their lives ? and that’s exactly the way it should be. About 40 of Oxford and Lake Orion’s special education students and members of LOFT, a post-high school program, attended a prom organized just for them Saturday evening at Merge Studio and Gallery. They ate. […]