The stellar season for the Varsity Bowling teams came to a disappointing conclusion as both teams failed to qualify for the championship round of the state tournament. The format to get into the championship was for each team to bowl eight baker games and two team games. The varsity boys were in the mix to […]
Musical groups from Clarkston schools have a lot to be singing about lately. Several groups earned high division ranking at the District 4 Choral Festival on March. 8. The very next night, 85 students, grades 4-9, displayed their skills for friends and family members at the ‘Broadway Melodies? musical at Clarkston Junior High School. Danielle […]
The Lady Wildcats basketball season came to an end on Thursday, March 5 with a 46-26 loss against Waterford Mott in the opening rounds of district play. ‘We had a very poor start to the game, due in part to Mott’s strong play but also due to our own mistakes and not matching their intensity? […]
A round of applause erupted at last Tuesday’s board of education meeting after officials announced two of the CAD (Computer Aided Design) classes would be making a comeback for the 2006-07 school year. The classes were temporarily suspended at Oxford High School for the 2005-06 school year due to declining enrollment, but the outlook for […]
Congratulations to the 30 Oxford High School DECA students who became finalists at Michigan DECA’s 60th annual State Career Development Conference in Dearborn the weekend of March 10. Out of the 53 students from OHS who participated, 42 won medals at the state competition and 30 finalists qualified to compete at the 60th Annual High […]
Results for the latest set of Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) testing were released from the Michigan Department of Education March 9 and Oxford officials say they’re pleased. Despite several changes in testing this year, which included a consolidation of testing for grades 4-8 for the first time and the addition of testing for third-graders, […]
Many people can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on 9/11, the day Kennedy was shot and of course, when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. Barbara Youngs, now 76, shared her memory of the attack Monday with Barbara Johnston’s fourth-grade class at Oxford Elementary School. Johnston is Youngs? daughter. […]
Some people just can’t decorate a room to save their life. If that shade of green you painted on your living room wall just doesn’t match the pillows on your couch and if you’re constantly tripping over that poorly placed ottoman, you’re in luck. Oxford resident Jay Rogers started his own interior design business, JDR […]
Oxford’s Board of Education voted unanimously March 14 to allow students who live outside of the district to attend Oxford schools for the 2006-07 school year, but there are stipulations. Superintendent Virgina Brennan-Kyro suggested opening the schools on a ‘limited basis,? meaning only those districts which border the Oxford district, such as Lapeer or Romeo, […]
Michelle Tyrrell has a vision. The Brandon Middle School seventh grade social studies and language arts teacher shared her view with students recently to glean many old, new, or used eyeglasses from the school along with the community. Later this month the glasses will be sent to Africa for those who otherwise would not have […]