In an era when sports teams? training rooms are filled with sleek, sophisticated workout machines designed around scientific principles, Oxford’s varsity wrestlers are taking a more ‘old school? approach to their conditioning. Doing squats while holding 200-pound tractor tires and swinging sledge hammers are just some of the old-fashioned ways the wrestlers have been preparing […]
Following the trend in communities all over Oakland County, preliminary numbers were released last week indicating average residential property values declined by 6.8 percent in Oxford Township and 2.82 percent in Addison Township. There’s concern that as property values fall, taxable values will, too, affecting revenues for local governments. The biggest effect will be in […]
I’m sick and tired of government taking on the role of protecting stupid, lazy, irresponsible people. Case in point, the Village of Oxford’s attempts to get a traffic signal installed at the Dennison/M-24/Stanton intersection. Officials and some residents say we need a traffic signal there because of all the pedestrians ? particularly careless young people […]
When most people want a Thanksgiving turkey, they go to the grocery store or butcher shop and buy some frozen bird from the assembly line. Not Keith Girardot. He just walks out to his quaint red barn and picks a fresh one. ‘I think mine are more moist than the ones you buy in the […]
A sixth-grade female student confessed last week to writing two bomb threats in the girls restroom at Oxford Middle School. School officials identified the student, reported to be ‘angry at her home situation,? shortly after a third bomb threat was discovered at OMS on Thursday, Nov. 15 just before noon. ‘I’m very happy that it’s […]
Pieces of the biggest quilt in America are coming to the Immanuel Congregational United Church of Christ at the corner of Hovey and Dennison streets in Oxford Village. Four sections (or ‘blocks?) of The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at the neighborhood church from Monday, Nov. 26 through Sunday, Dec. 9. ‘It has […]
Mia’s Cleaners is offering people a way to help keep needy children warm and toasty this winter. From Nov. 21 through Dec. 19, the Oxford-based dry cleaner is collecting gently used and new winter coats for the Salvation Army’s Coats for Kids program. ‘There’s so many people in need out there right now especially with […]
It’s comforting to know that during these apocalyptic economic times our Oxford Twp. trustees will still be able to get away from it all and enjoy a lovely conference with their fellow officials at the taxpayers? expense. Did I say comforting? I meant infuriating, disgusting, despicable ? just take your pick. I cannot believe the […]
‘The next person that gets killed or seriously hurt (crossing M-24) has got a lot of people in this roomthat they can point to as (it) being their fault.? Oxford Village Council President Chris Bishop pulled no punches Monday as he and other village officials met with representatives from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) […]
Oxford school officials received “verbal confirmation” Friday that a student attending the Crossroads for Youth School at 930 E. Drahner Rd. was infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). “A student (an 11th grade female) went home (sick) Wednesday afternoon,” said Assistant Superintendent Nancy Kammer, who noted that the Oakland County Health Division was immediately contacted […]