An Oxford teacher was jailed Tuesday after being charged with sexually abusing his 14-year-old adopted daughter. Gerard Robert Wilson, 48, of Commerce Twp., was arraigned on four felony counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in Novi’s 52-1 District Court. ‘CSC second-degree is a charge that alleges sexual touching with somebody under the age of 13 […]
Two brothers are facing criminal charges after allegedly breaking into homes in Oxford and Addison townships on Easter Sunday. Adrian Ale Chavarria, 22, of Mount Morris, and his 23-year-old brother David Chavarria, Jr., of Flint, have each been charged with one count of first-degree and one count of second-degree home invasion. The brothers are facing […]
While many veterans spent World War II with a rifle in one hand and a grenade in the other, Harry ‘Red? Seavey was busy driving a bulldozer. ‘I didn’t want to live in a foxhole,? said the 82-year-old Addison resident, who served in the Pacific Theater of Operations from 1943-46 as a Seabee with the […]
Only three Oxford residents who don’t hold any elected office in the village or township spoke during last week’s public hearing regarding cityhood. ‘My motivation for doing this had nothing to do with money and everything to do with the Village of Oxford standing on its own two feet and being its own separate entity,? […]
When Garrett Hill started throwing up on a regular basis last spring, his parents took him to the doctor believing it was some sort of gastrointestinal problem. They were shocked when the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) revealed the 6-year-old Addison resident had a malignant tumor, or medulloblastoma, the size of a lemon growing on his […]
As I sat at the public hearing on cityhood last week, surrounded by a tiny group of all-too-familiar faces and about 175 empty chairs in the Oxford Middle School Commons Area, I had to wonder ‘Who really cares about cityhood?? When it came time to speak, the only ones who did so were four township […]
If Oxford’s elementary students had a dollar for every step they walked, they’d all be millionaires. Seven hundred third and fourth-graders at Oxford, Lakeville, Leonard and Clear Lake elementaries walked a combined 53,727,288 steps from March 5-30 as part of Oakland County’s ‘Count Your Steps? program. Launched in 2004 by county Executive L. Brooks Patterson, […]
First-graders in Sara Powrie’s class at Clear Lake Elementary held a Mother’s Day Tea Thursday afternoon. Students dressed in their Sunday best. The boys wore dress shirts and ties while the girls donned frilly dresses, lovely hats and white gloves. Students read poems to their moms after which they shared hugs, kisses and tears. Following […]
A giant inflatable slide, obstacle course, sack races, basketball, cotton candy and snow cones. There was plenty of fun to be had as Leonard Elementary hosted its annual Spring Fair Friday evening. It was a blast!
Eight applicants for the superintendent position were invited for interviews next week by the Oxford Board of Education. ‘We have some great candidates,? said School Board President Colleen Schultz, during a special meeting held Tuesday night to screen applications. ‘I think there was only one out of the 25 (applicants) that I threw out right […]