When a man went into cardiac arrest and collapsed early last year, Trenton Sabo didn’t think, he acted on instinct and tried to save a life. For his efforts, the Oxford High School senior is going to receive a national honor from the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Sabo, an Eagle Scout with Troop 366, […]
Oxford Village Police Chief Mike Neymanowski had never received a salute from the President of the United States during his 49-year career in law enforcement. That all changed Jan. 20 when the new leader of the free world, Donald J. Trump, paid tribute to Neymanowski and a group of police officers from Michigan as they […]
Say it ain’t so, Joe! Joe Frost, executive director of the Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA), submitted his resignation Jan. 19 and is headed for greener pastures. Frost, who’s been on the job since July 2015, is going to work as an associate planner for Main Street Oakland County (MSOC), an economic development program that […]
Oxford Village officials instructed their attorney, Bob Davis, “to stop all work on any police chief contract until further direction” is provided by council. That was the motion approved by council in a 4-1 vote following a closed session during a special meeting Jan. 20. Councilwoman Maureen Helmuth voted against it. Village President Sue Bossardet […]
A longtime member of the Oxford Fire Department was in Washington D.C. Jan. 20 for President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, but she wasn’t there as a spectator or a protester. Lt. Nancy Hunger was there to work as a paramedic. “Politics aside, it was awesome,” she said. “It’s tradition and it was pretty overwhelming to […]
It was a damp and foggy evening – the perfect setting for a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery. But the sleuthing wasn’t taking place on the sinister and shadowy streets of 19th-century London. The game was afoot inside the cozy confines of the Oxford Public Library. On Friday, the library hosted a “Sherlock-In,” during which a group […]
The winds of change are blowing this year and in that spirit, I think it’s time for the Oxford Village Police Department to have a new chief. That chief should be Sgt. Mike Solwold. I’ve said it for years, privately, and now, I’m saying it publicly. Solwold has faithfully served this town as a police […]
OHS sophomore Gibson Underwood got to sit on the dais during the Jan. 10 Oxford Village Council meeting. Council passed a special resolution in support of his battle with leukemia. For more than a year, Gibson Underwood has been battling leukemia. But the Oxford High School sophomore hasn’t been doing it alone. He’s had loads […]
Reports of the Oxford Village Police Department having a mounted unit that’s going to Washington D.C. are false. It’s true Kallie Roesner-Meyers and Bruce Meyers, both of Oxford Township, and Eugenia Calocassides, of Metamora, will be participating in the 58th Presidential Inaugural Parade Jan. 20 as part of Michigan’s Multi-Jurisdictional Mounted Police Drill Team and […]
For many bowlers, if they manage to roll a perfect game, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime feat But not for John Taylor. He did it twice in one night. The 25-year-old Oxford resident bowled back-to-back 300 games Jan. 11 at Collier Lanes. “Last night was my night,” Taylor said. Bowling a perfect game means throwing 12 consecutive […]