A martial arts classroom. A television station. These are just some of the possible long-term uses for the 7,500-square-foot old fire hall on W. Burdick St., which currently sits vacant behind the township and village offices. At its Dec. 23 meeting, the Oxford Village Council heard two proposals for possible usage of the building. The […]
The idea of connecting the Polly Ann Trail and Scripter Park via a safety path took a step closer to reality at the Dec. 23 Oxford Village Council meeting. Council approved the “concept” of creating a village safety path through the proposed Melvin J. Estates property, a 12-unit condominium development located between the end of […]
Johnston Photography, owned by Oxford resident Dorothy Johnston (above), was the winner of the Oxford Community Development Authority’s holiday decorating contest. Businesses were asked to decorate their storefronts according to the Chamber of Commerce’s Christmas parade theme, which was 1950s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” Johnston’s window, at 8 N. Washington St., featured life-size, cutout […]
Cutting Edge Center for Dance and Pilates won “honorable mention” in the OCDA’s decorating contest with a storefront window centered around legendary 1950s rebel James Dean. The 17 S. Washington St. business is owned by mother-daughter team, Kathy Leonard (left) and Katie Clark.
For a stone-cold political junkie like me, just thinking about next year gets me higher than a kite. It’s an election year! It’s an election year! I know I have a problem, but I don’t care. There’s no 12-step program for those hopelessly addicted to the American political scene. Even though he’s dead, I’ll bet […]
10 years ago December 29, 1993 No one seems to approve the new school funding proposal that got ballot approval in Lansing. No vote date has been set. It will call for higher sales, cigarette and homestead taxes and a property transfer tax. Daniel Kabat of Addison Township earned Ford Motor Company’s highest honor, the […]
Tuesday, December 22 A 40-year-old Oxford Township man has been accused by a 32-year-old Rochester woman of assault. The woman claims the local man pushed her to the ground twice while she was trying to leave his apartment. Over the weekend of December 20-22, unknown individuals broke into the construction site at the current Oxford […]
’Twas the night before the night before Christmas when a structure fire erupted inside the Park Villa Apartments at 525 Pontiac St. Oxford firefighters were dispatched to the scene at 7:18 p.m. Dec. 23. The blaze began in a first-floor unit, which was described in terms of damage as a “total loss” by Fire Lt. […]
Attorney Thomas J. Ryan will represent the Village of Oxford in its quest to become a city. Council Dec. 23 voted 4-0 to retain the Sylvan Lake attorney as “special counsel for the purpose of providing professional legal services in an effort to incorporate as a city the Village of Oxford.” Under the terms of […]
Holy drop the ball in Times Square, Batman! Our year is all but a memory. Two thousand double ought three, we hardly knew ye. That said, I need to relate one story from the old year. It was December 23, I just got back to the office, sat down at my desk and noticed a […]