Everyone knows the library as a place to check out a good book or two. But the Oxford Public Library is offering a new service for Valentine’s Day ? the chance to find true love. On Thursday, Feb. 11, the library, located at 530 Pontiac Road, will host a speed dating event for book lovers. […]
Middle school students at Kingsbury Country Day School in Addison Township spent a couple days last week learning interview and research techniques from a veteran journalist. ‘Those skills are things they can carry on and use for the rest of their life,? said Roberto Santiago, director of communications and strategic marketing for the Museum of […]
His alleged crime involved computers, the internet and hacking into unsecured wireless connections, but in the end, it was good, old-fashioned police work that led to a 33-year-old Oxford man’s arrest Jan. 26. Andrew Kyle Holland was arraigned in United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, on the federal charge of transferring obscene material […]
Another Oxford official has tossed his hat into the ring in the race to represent District 1 on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. District 1, which includes about 48,000 residents, encompasses Oxford, Addison, Brandon and Groveland townships plus the villages of Oxford, Leonard and Ortonville. The district also includes two precincts in Independence Township. […]
It’s by no means a done deal and nothing’s for sure yet, but a local company looking to move into the Village of Oxford, expand its operations and hire hundreds of additional employees got one step closer to obtaining the state and local tax incentives needed to help make it all happen. On Tuesday night, […]
A local company is going to give the Village of Oxford a gift worth $50,000 and all the community has to do in return is be a test site for one of its new products. On Tuesday night, the village council voted 5-0 to accept the Oxford-based Relume Technologies? offer to install its new Sentinel […]
Only the best of the best get inducted into a hall of fame for what they’ve accomplished in their profession. Jeff Bryant must be on his way to legendary status as he made it into his second hall of fame in two years. On Saturday, the 46-year-old Oxford resident was inducted into the International Karate […]
Students from Lawrence Technological University visited the Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center in Addison Township Saturday to begin studying how well alternative energy sources, working in conjunction with unique architectural features, power and heat the building constructed in the 1970s. ‘We’re trying to analyze the efficiency of efficient buildings,? said LTU senior Steve Gillette, who’s […]
It’s safe to say that almost every great invention throughout the course of human history was first conceived in that limitless womb of ideas and theories known simply as the imagination. Over the weekend, three teams of Oxford Elementary fifth-graders demonstrated how their imaginations could someday help solve the world’s problems by participating in the […]
Fourth-grader Micah Dymond is quickly becoming the resident authority on butterflies at Oxford Elementary. The student is heading up a project studying everything there is to know about monarch butterflies. ‘Because of Micah, the whole class has become experts on monarch butterflies and their migration,? said her teacher Mary Kraniak. ‘You ask anyone in my […]