Four Oxford High School students recently earned honors at the DECA International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida. Senior Heather Marra placed fifth in the world in the Hospitality and Tourism Marketing Research competition. Marra worked with Soothe Your Soul to create a generational marking campaign designed to attract Baby Boomers to the downtown Oxford […]
This column is dedicated to all those residents, students, parents, teachers, administrators and ex-employees who suffered during the tyrannical reign of Oxford Superintendent William Skilling. Free at last. After nearly eight years, the long, dark night is over. Last week, William Skilling’s tenure as superintendent of Oxford Schools came to an end. I’ll miss him […]
Ninety-nine percent of a mail carrier’s job is spent sorting, hauling and delivering letters, newspapers and packages for folks on their routes. Then there’s that very special 1 percent that occurs on the second Saturday in May. That’s when the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) conducts its annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive across […]
Time for the Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA) to once again dust off the old Help Wanted sign and hang it on the front door. That’s because Virginia ‘Ginny? Schomisch, the current executive director, is leaving after less than a year on the job. On Friday, after speaking with DDA Chairman Pete Scholz and village […]
In one Addison Township household, ‘ladies first? isn’t just an expression, it’s a way of life. Steve and Kelly Wright have six, count’em six daughters and no sons. But that could change today. Kelly, 38, is pregnant and has a doctor’s appointment during which she’s expected to learn the baby’s sex. ‘It would be fun […]
An Oxford Township official said she was told negotiations for a site on which to build a dormitory to house up to 208 international students, mostly Chinese, ‘went south,? but the architect said that’s not the case. ‘That was a misquote,? said Steve Foster, senior project architect-manager with Stephen Auger & Associates Architects, the Lake […]
Have you ever been so completely frustrated with that broken-down old photocopy machine at your workplace that you just wanted to destroy the thing? Well, Cristina Westerby recently got to live out this office fantasy. The program therapist at Crossroads for Youth in Oxford got to help pull the lever and drop the nonprofit agency’s […]
Folks seeking information from Oxford Township won’t be able to obtain it via the internet. Clerk Curtis Wright reported the township’s website has been down since April 25 due to technical difficulties. When will it be back up? ‘It’s unknown at this point,? he said. Folks in need of government information are asked to please […]
Is there anything more exciting for a teenager than being able to drive his or her own car to high school? How about driving a big old tractor? Four Oxford High School seniors celebrated the close of their Wildcat careers by pulling into the parking lot Friday morning seated atop tractors as if heading into […]
After suffering a near-fatal heart attack about 13 months ago, Dave Willits wasn’t about to let a recent leg injury stop him from achieving his goal to run 10 kilometers as part of the annual Wildcat Race held Saturday morning. In 55 minutes, 24.7 seconds, the former Oxford resident completed the course, which took him […]