Community service is in Andrew Hunter’s blood. ‘I come from a family that believes very strongly in giving back to the community,? said the new president of the Rotary Club of Oxford. Hunter was recently installed as the club’s president for 2006-07. He’s the second member of his family to lead a group of Rotarians. […]
Two years. Two gold medals. The ladies of Palazzo di Bocce are on a roll ? literally. Members of Palazzo’s ‘Dream Motivators? captured their second straight gold medal in the Open B Tournament at the 2006 U.S. Bocce Championships in St. Louis, Missouri June 19-25. Formed in January 2005, the team consists of Oxford residents […]
After a pickup truck flipped over on Coats Road Sunday, the driver fled the scene, leaving Oakland County Sheriff’s investigators to figure out why. A 37-year-old Lake Orion man was heading south on Coats Road, between Stanton and Drahner roads, when his 1991 Dodge pickup truck rolled over. The driver claimed an injury to one […]
Another of Oxford’s sons has returned home safely from the war in Iraq. Specialist Ryan Giroux arrived back in Oxford June 19 after serving a year in the Middle Eastern nation with the Michigan Army National Guard’s Company B, 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry. He was one of 122 soldiers from the Saginaw-based unit to return […]
Several proposed rezonings in and around downtown Oxford will be the subject of a 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 18 public hearing before the village planning commission. Most of the proposed changes are in part based on the village Master Plan, adopted in 2005, and the DDA Master Plan, which is still awaiting approval. Some of […]
Oxford and Addison township officials voted to place two tax increases on the November ballot to finance a proposed senior center for Oxford, Addison and Orion townships. Oxford voters will be asked to approve a bond proposal calling for property owners to pay an approximately 0.2-mill tax over 20 years to retire a $2.815 million […]
Roger Oberg was many things to many people ? educator, community leader, devoted Rotarian, jokester, local icon, mentor, gentleman, friend, neighbor on Dennison St. But to my 12-year-old daughter Larissa he was, and will forever be, simply ‘Great Grandpa O.? They weren’t related by blood or marriage. Their bond was one of pure affection and […]
If an entire community can be judged by the character and deeds of one good man who called that place home, then let’s hope Roger D. Oberg is the standard by which all of Oxford is measured. ‘He gave his heart to the schools and to the community,? said former Oxford Superintendent Mark Orchard. ‘He […]
Christine Burns won’t say how she would vote on the issue of cityhood for Oxford Village, if it ever makes the ballot, but she did tell council it needs to establish an official relationship with the committee pushing it. ‘Treat the cityhood committee like you would any other committee that works under you and for […]
Hanging out with family. Riding her motorcycle. Laying in the grass and smelling the flowers. That’s what Sara Frank plans to do for the next two weeks. It may sound like nothing special unless you’ve just spent the last seven months serving in Iraq. ‘I missed everything,? especially ‘the little things you never appreciated before? […]