By C.J. Carnacchio Leader Editor “Manager Mark Slown got the green light from the Oxford Village Council last week to investigate the process for obtaining a traffic signal at the Broadway/M-24 intersection and report back in January 2003 with a plan to make it happen.” Council gave Slown permission to meet with officials from the […]
By C.J. Carnacchio Leader Editor “In terms of parades, Detroit and New York own Thanksgiving, but Oxford is king when it comes to Christmas. With 68 entries including the big guy with the white beard and red suit, the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Christmas parade is slated to hit the streets at 2 […]
By C.J. Carnacchio Leader Staff Writer “After delivering 45 years of quality service, selling millions of gallons of gasoline and building a lifetime of fond memories, Ed Triest, owner of Ed’s Sunoco station, is calling it quits Dec. 17. “I think it’s time for me to leave,” Triest said. “It’s not really a money-making deal […]
Reality check ? Would you spend about $47,500 to have a gaggle of lawyers tell you to take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket? Oxford Village and Township did. The above analogy is the easiest way to understand how the village and township settled their dispute over allegedly […]
A new vehicle joined the North Oakland Transportation Authority’s (NOTA) fleet of five vans last Wednesday and it’s unlike anything the organization currently has on the road. A 21-foot Community Transit Bus featuring 11 passenger seats, two wheelchair lock-downs and an electronic wheelchair lift is the new “flagship of the NOTA fleet,” according to authority […]
Three Oxford High School students suspected of setting fire to a construction bus parked at the middle school and breaking into three school buses and stealing radio equipment, all on the night of Wednesday Jan. 15, are being investigated by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. Following the alleged incidents, the three students fled across the […]
A new vehicle joined the North Oakland Transportation Authority’s (NOTA) fleet of five vans last Wednesday and it’s unlike anything the organization currently has on the road. A 21-foot Community Transit Bus featuring 11 passenger seats, two wheelchair lock-downs and an electronic wheelchair lift is the new “flagship of the NOTA fleet,” according to authority […]
When Father John Leo Phalen was growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, he wanted to be either a priest doing missionary work in the jungle or a “Bring’Em Back Alive Frank Buck-type,” who’s adventures capturing wild jungle animals were made famous in books, movies and film shorts. “I always wanted something adventurous in life,” […]
“If you promise not to throw things at me, I might do it for a year.” Those were the words of Oxford Township Supervisor Bill Dunn last Wednesday before he was elected to serve as chairman of the Oxford Public Fire and EMS Commission (OPFEC) for 2003. Dunn, who reluctantly accepted the post, was finally […]
“Coming back here gives another meaning to ‘returning to the scene of the crime,’” joked Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca as he addressed the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce at the group’s monthly meeting last Thursday. Gorcyca explained that a few years ago he wrote a check for a golf outing in Oxford, which later […]