SYNOPSIS Regular meeting of the Charter Township of Oxford Board of Trustees held on March 241, 2004 at the Oxford Veterans Memorial Civic Center. PRESENT: Supervisor Dunn, Trustee Dywasuk, Treasurer Ferrari, Trustee Fitchena ABSENT: Trustee Clancy, Trustee Kniffen, Cleric Sanderson The following actions were taken: Approved the agenda as amended. Approved the following minutes: Special […]
OXFORD VILLAGE ? An Oxford man was tragically cut down in the prime of his life Saturday morning when he accidentally drown in Scripter Park’s Round Lake. Travis Carl Towsley, 23, drown while attempting to swim across the frigid lake, according to the Oxford Village Police report. Towsley, a former student of the Lake Orion […]
Thanks to a $512 donation from the Oxford/Orion Kiwanis Club, Paige Anolick will get the help she needs to speak ? for at least another month. ‘It was a relief,? said Lori Anolick, mother of the four-year-old Oxford resident, of the Kiwanis Club’s donation. ‘It’s been a struggle. This puts my mind at ease. For […]
The board of the Gingellville Community Center is wondering why the township has assessed them for property tax this year, when they are exempt from federal income tax. Orion Township Assessor John Attwell said the two exemptions are not the same. Gingellville Community Center Director Pam Hutchison said she never received a letter from Attwell […]
If there’s to be a dedicated millage for the construction of additional safety paths in Oxford Township, it won’t be levied against the village. The township board last week voted 5-2 to direct its Safety Path Committee to ‘put together? a ‘suggested safety path millage proposal? for the November 2004 ballot, ‘to be placed on […]
Tuesday, April 13 A 16-year-old Oxford Lakes resident was cited for minor in possession of alcohol after officers attempted to make contact on Lakeville Rd. and the youth fled into some bushes. The youth received minor scrapes and bruises from running through the shrubbery. A resident on Thornehill Trail reported malicious mischief after he found […]
Residents filled Orion Township Hall on Monday evening to let the board of trustees know how they felt about the idea of constructing a new community center. Many said no. The board was presented with four options for a center after a nearly two year-long feasibility study was recently completed. Most of the people speaking […]
Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies are currently investigating the ongoing harassment of an Addison Township firefighter over his personal e-mail account. Since March 27, the firefighter, whose name is being withheld upon request, has received three threatening and vulgar e-mails from the yahoo account ‘smith48088.? The name on the return address bar says ‘john smith.? ‘This […]
Several residents in Addison Twp. awoke this past Sunday, April 18, to find that their mailboxes had been destroyed and mail strewn along the roadway. According to Addison Twp. Substation Commander Sgt. Pete Burkett, residents along Glenmeadow, Frick, Dorn and Lowwood roads were struck by the vandals sometime between 10 p.m. on Saturday and 7 […]
Oxford native and Lapeer resident Greg Bullen, and his broadcasting partners Tom McDonald and Ron Wolfe, were recently awarded the 2004 Best Live Broadcast Award from the Associated Press for the second year running. The trio broadcasts on WMPC 1230 AM, Lapeer’s gospel radio station. Bullen, 39, McDonald and Wolfe were recognized for their September […]