The Oxford Tap is one step closer to adding an outdoor service area behind its 36 S. Washington St. building. Oxford Village Council members voted 4-0 to approve Police Chief Mike Neymanowski’s recommendation to the Michigan Liquor Control Commission that the Oxford Tap be allowed to operate an outdoor service area in conjunction with its […]
Five businesses in an Addison Township strip mall were burglarized late Thursday night, but instead of getting away with the loot, the suspected thief got a dog bite courtesy of the Oakland County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit. Carlen Leon Skube was arraigned in Rochester Hills 52-3 District Court Saturday on five felony counts of breaking and […]
Fire erupted inside the attic and roof of an Addison Township home in the wee hours Monday morning. Firefighters were called to 258 Ridgemont (which runs south off Indian Lake Road) around 2:30 a.m. to extinguish a house fire. When fire personnel arrived on the scene, Addison Fire Chief George Spencer said the house was […]
Oxford Township officials last week voted 6-1 to approve a contract with Oakland County for the acquisition, construction and financing of an estimated $17,725,000 worth of improvements to the unincorporated water system. The project includes construction of a 1-million gallon elevated storage tank on N. Oxford Road, up to four water treatment plants and eight […]
Residents in the northwest portion of Oxford Village turned out en masse last week for a public hearing regarding the potential development of some vacant public land. Council was considering developing 3.125 acres of village-owned property (south of Dayton St. and west of Pleasant St.) into affordable housing for senior citizens and a park/recreational area […]
Oxford Bank’s main branch held a bake sale Friday and raised $236 for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life May 14-15 at Oxford High School. The bank is a $1,000 sponsor of the 24-hour relay event which is designed to raise money for cancer research and promote cancer awareness and education. Tony Lasher, marketing […]
Oxford resident J.T. Scollin was recently selected as his school’s recipient of the Winter Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) Scholar Athlete Award. An eighth-grader at the Marist Academy, a Catholic school in Pontiac, Scollin earned the award for his performance on the basketball court and in the classroom, where he maintains a grade point average above […]
A group of children from Immanuel Congregational United Church of Christ spent part of their Easter morning decorating a small wooden cross outside the church with butterflies ? symbols of rebirth and new life. In photo above, we see Chase Donaldson begin the decorating while in the photo below Emily Wilder (left), Skye Donaldson (kneeling, […]
The Main Street program is new to downtown Oxford, but to Amanda Katt Cassidy it’s a familiar old friend she met in school. Cassidy was hired earlier this week to be the new executive director of the Oxford Community Development Authority (OCDA) at an annual salary of $44,000 plus benefits. She starts in two weeks. […]
The Rotary Club of Oxford yesterday presented a $240 check to the Northeast Oakland Advisory Committee (NOAC) to help the local charity cover its operating expenses. NOAC is part of the Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency based in Pontiac. On the second Wednesday of each month at the Community Education Resource Center (CERC) in Lake […]