Junior Girl Scout Troop 849 is collecting new toothbrushes, toothpaste, hair brushes, shampoo, conditioner and other assorted toiletry items, all of which will be donated to ‘The Place of Hope? Warming Center, a local homeless shelter operated during the winter months at the St. John Baldwin United Methodist Church and Center in Pontiac. The girls […]
Oxfordites went hog wild last week ? groundhog that is. Woodchuck fever gripped our small town as the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce conducted ‘Groundhog Daze? from Feb. 2 through 5. Marmot mania kicked off last Wednesday with the annual groundhog prediction in Centennial Park. This year’s guest woodchuck, ‘Harley,? from the Howell Nature Center, […]
An American flag that once flew over a U.S. military base in Iraq now proudly hangs in a hallway at Lakeville Elementary. From October 2004 to January 2005 this flag flew over a U.S. Army forward operating base in Sadr City (formerly known as Saddam City and Al Thawra), a vast, poverty-stricken Shiite Muslim ghetto […]
We are very pleased to report Oxford’s guest groundhog Harley, of the Howell Nature Center, did NOT see his shadow today in Centennial Park, which means spring is not far away! Thanks Harley. See ya next year fella! Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.
The Oxford Public Library turns 80 this year and as part of the celebration the community institution is undergoing a $350,000 expansion to better serve its patrons. ‘This is our birthday present to the community,? said Library Director Judy Doublestein. Construction is expected to begin this week on a project that will include expanding the […]
A 29-year-old Oxford man last week was charged with child abuse for allegedly violently shaking his newborn baby, causing serious injury to the infant. Christopher Arthur Bobek was arraigned in Rochester Hills 52-3 District Court Friday on charges of first- and second-degree child abuse stemming from a Monday, Jan. 24 incident in which he allegedly […]
When Doug Waller decided to give his nine-year-old daughter Samantha a special and unique gift this past Christmas, he didn’t go to the nearest mall or flip through some expensive catalog. Instead, the loving Oxford father looked deep inside his heart and, with the help of some friends, turned his daughter’s bedroom into a place […]
Thanks to the generous and amazing fund-raising efforts of Oxford Elementary students at least one more new home will be built in Sri Lanka. From Jan. 19-28, OES students raised a little more than $6,000 to help the Salvation Army’s efforts to build new houses in Galle, a seaport city in southwestern Sri Lanka. Galle […]
I’m a firm believer that whenever tax dollars are spent they should be invested in services and facilities that directly or indirectly benefit the entire public. That’s why I was so glad to see the new Oxford High School pool will be utilized by the general public in the form of open swim times, swim […]
Throughout the month of January Lakeville Elementary students and staff donned their favorite hats to raise money for tsunami relief efforts in South Asia. Each day students paid at least $1 to wear their chapeau to school as part of their Helping All Tsunami Survivors (or H.A.T.S. for short) fund-raiser. Lakeville collected a grand total […]