TDS Automotive announced last week plans to close its Oxford Village plant June 25 and permanently lay off the nearly 100 workers employed there. The closing of the 201 E. Drahner Road facility was announced in an April 8 press release from TDS Automotive, which is headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada. TDS Automotive provides material […]
Oxford residents Doug Grandy, 9, and P.J. Sisk, 7, each won first place trophies in a April 6 Tae Kwon Do tournament at Oxford Elementary School. The tournament was for students participating in a local Tae Kwon Do course conducted by the Rochester Hills-based Kerry Roop’s Superkicks For America, Inc. and offered through Oxford Township […]
A special meeting of the Oxford Public Fire and EMS Commission on Thursday, April 8 was cancelled due to the lack of a quorum among the board’s village council members. All seven township board members were present, but only one village councilman, Dave Bailey, was in attendance. According to OPFEC’s by-laws a quorum of both […]
A quick stop for a pack of cigarettes at a local gas station last week cost a man his pickup truck. A 1994 Ford pickup truck belonging to a 33-year-old Orion man was reported stolen April 6 from the parking lot of Uncle Boomba’s Marathon gas station on the southwest corner of M-24 and Drahner […]
A public hearing is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20 regarding the updating and extension of the Oxford Community Development Authority’s (OCDA) Downtown Development and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Plan. The original OCDA plan ‘sunsets,? or expires, on July 1, 2005. The authority was formed in 1982. OCDA officials wish to extend the plan […]
Leonard Elementary School Principal Sue Hannant sported a Mohawk hairdo Thursday as a reward for her students? prolific reading abilities. During the month of March, Leonard Elementary’s 319 kindergarten through fifth-grade students read an impressive total of 3,709 books. Hannant originally challenged the student body to read 1,500 books as part of ‘March is Reading […]
A total of 400 guys and gals attended the Daddy Daughter Dances held Friday and Saturday nights at Devil’s Ridge Golf Club in Oxford Township. The events were organized by Oxford Twp. Parks and Recreation.
ROCHESTER HILLS ? Sylvia Marie Majewska, the Addison Township woman accused of slaying both her son and her infant granddaughter in November 2014, was found competent to stand trial. That was the ruling of 52-3 District Court Judge Lisa Asadoorian following a brief competency hearing Monday morning. The decision was based on a Jan. 27 […]
‘I’m as broke as you are. You stole from the wrong kind of person.? That was Jenni Lynn Williams? message to the person or persons who recently pilfered her older brother’s high-end bicycle from the Park Villa Apartments property off Pontiac St. in Oxford. Williams, 25, who is staying at her grandparents? home on N. […]
Old Man Winter has been fairly tame this season. But it wouldn’t be Michigan if he didn’t deliver at least one or two big snow storms as spring draws near. Heavy, wet snow began burying Oxford on the morning of Feb. 24 and didn’t stop until the following morning. The National Weather Service (NWS) website […]