By James Hanlon Leader Staff Writer What a tough year to graduate high school, having all celebrations and milestones cancelled or postponed. With commencement ceremony plans uncertain, staff still wanted to do something special for the class of 2020. So, they organized a drive-thru for seniors to drive by the high school to pick up […]
Sad to report another community resident lost their life due to COVID-19, this according to Oakland County’s COVID by ZIP website. This is the fourth such death in our ZIP code area of 48367, 48370 and 48371 since The Leader started its Monday morning tallies, on April 13. The latest death was in the Oxford […]
This weekend the colors of spring were in bloom at Oxford’s Centennial Park. While we’re all still under lock-down via the governor’s executive order, we thought we’d share ‘niceness’ from downtown. Photo by J. Hanlon.
According to Oxford Township’s website . . . Sewer bills are due June 5, not May 5 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, payment of the current quarterly sewer bill (mailed on April 6) will NOT be due on May 5. Instead, sewer customers will have until June 5 to pay their bills without incurring […]
By Don Rush Leave it to the young to find ways to be happy and postive just by spreading cheer and kindness to others. Case-in-point, we introduce Leader readers to eight-year-old Alexa “Lexi” Keat. A paper she wrote while at home with her family and not finishing out her second grade class of Daniel Axford […]
Keep your fingers crossed, for the second week in a row the trends for our community in regards to COVID-19 continue to look good. According to numbers provided by Oakland County for the ZIP codes 48367, 48370 and 48371, there was only one new case of the disease, that in the Leonard ZIP. Since The […]
By James Hanlon Leader Staff Writer Many organizations have been working diligently to ensure no one goes hungry during the crisis caused by COVID-19. House of Hope Ministry, for example, is helping feed residents of local mobile and manufactured homes. When the crisis began in March, the mobile home-based nonprofit put together sack lunches for […]
By Teddy Rydquist Leader Staff Writer Emergency dispatch responded to a call at 3:18 p.m. on Monday, April 27 from a man saying he saw smoke bellowing from the windows of his neighbor’s mobile home on Crestwood Dr. in the Parkhurst Estates complex located off Lapeer Rd. The Oxford Township Fire Department, headed by Chief […]
By James Hanlon Leader Staff Writer The coronavirus cancelled a lot of things, but it did not cancel or delay the M-24 construction project, which began on April 23. “This road construction project is an essential function. Transportation workers in the field follow Centers for Disease Control guidelines to limit their risk of getting sick,” […]
By James Hanlon Leader Staff Writer Polly Ann Trail traffic has quadrupled in the last couple months, Trail Manager Linda Moran estimates. She is thrilled so many folks are getting outdoors and enjoying the multi-use linear park, a former railroad corridor that runs from Orion Township, through Oxford and Addison Township. “We’ve had people say […]