Oxford Wildcats 9U team finished the season July 2 against the Clarkston Riverdawgs. The Cats had played Clarkston twice already in the season, beating them 7-5 and 15-14. They lost the Thursday game, 5-3, ending the season with a record 8-11.
Blankets lined the Addison Oaks County Park grass auditorium Friday, July 3 and families expressed ‘oh’s? and ‘ah’s? as the annual fireworks display lit up the sky with an array of dazzling colors. Prior to the fireworks, visitors listened to bands perform, climbed the rock wall, rode ponies and appreciated the beginning of the summer […]
Every day Bobby Buxbaum adds another goal to the list of tasks he wants to complete after undergoing a double lung transplant. He put hockey on the list during the Stanley Cup playoffs, but until the 24-year-old Brandon native gets a new set of lungs, hitting the ice will just have to wait. You see […]
Motorists expecting to see orange barrels in Addison Township this month will have to wait a while longer. The road construction originally planned to begin in the middle of July on Rochester Road, from Lakeville Road to Predmore Road, has been pushed back to August by the Road Commission for Oakland County. ‘It ended up […]
A car accident in downtown Oxford slowed traffic on the afternoon of June 24. A 2003 white Pontiac was stopped at Stanton Rd. Traffic heading northbound on Washington St. stopped to allow the driver to go across. Traffic heading southbound was not clear as she tried to drive across four lanes to get to Dennison […]
Oxford United Methodist Church is celebrating its 175th anniversary by offering the community a little relief in today’s troubled economy. A new program called ‘Free Meals at OUMC? will debut July 15 with free dinners every Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. ‘Anyone can come,? said Coordinator Colleen Richter. ‘There are a lot of families […]
A fawn was lying on the porch when Oxford resident George Navarre got home on June 21. The next day the fawn returned and laid down in the same spot next to the porch railing. She was enjoying the view of the woods surrounding the house. Later in the afternoon, Navarre spotted the fawn underneath […]
Oxford resident Martha VanBlerk is becoming an internationally-known mother. She’s already taken care of a German boy and now she’s awaiting the arrival of a girl from Thailand. VanBlerk and her kin serve as host family in Youth for Understanding (YFU), a foreign exchange student program. YFU is an educational experience that includes learning how […]
Addison Township Supervisor Bruce Pearson had the fire chief job description on his desk Monday, waiting for the next step in the hiring process. Both the fire board and township board must now approve the document before it’s posted and position’s advertised. The job description was sent to the fire board this week for them […]
Seven ‘ayes? from Oxford school board members unanimously approved the $39.8 million budget for the 2009-10 academic year at their June 22 meeting. The downside is Timothy Loock, Assistant Superintendent of Business and Operations, has already figured, the district will begin the year in a deficit of $363,682. Last year began the same way with […]