Pure joy. That’s the most accurate way to describe the prom held for Oxford’s special education students and members of the LOFT program Saturday evening at Merge Studio and Gallery located at 33 Pleasant St. Approximately 40 young people with various mental and physical disabilities, including some from Lake Orion High School, came together to […]
It appears funding the fix for pothole hill has hit another roadblock ? a legal roadblock. Last week, the Oxford Village Council voted 3-2 to authorize Manager Joe Young to enter into preliminary negotiations with the township to borrow up to $500,000 for five years in order to reconstruct the badly-deteriorated, pothole-ridden stretch of W. […]
For the second straight year, students from Oxford High School’s automotive program have won a state championship and secured a spot in the national competition in June. Last week, OHS seniors Mike Smith and Alan LaBarge won the state finals of the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition held at the Macomb Community College Expo Center […]
To many folks, an old pair of jeans is something to wear while doing yardwork or donate to charity. But at Christ the King Church in Oxford Township, an old pair of jeans took on a whole new and much deeper meaning on Sunday. Piles of old jeans were transformed into shoes, jobs and hope […]
Only 36 high school seniors from around the country received contingent admission offers from the University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. And Oxford High School senior Kathryn Flanagan is one of them. ‘It’s such an honor,? she said. ‘You work so hard in high school that you wonder if this is ever […]
Twenty quilts that will be given to women with unplanned pregnancies in the hopes they will choose to either keep their babies or put them up for adoption were blessed Sunday morning at the Oxford Free Methodist Church. Known as Loving Lamb quilts, they were made by the church’s Quilters for Life group for the […]
Only four people showed up to a special April 22 Oxford Village Council meeting meant to garner public input on a proposed water/sewer rate structure that, if approved, would significantly increase monthly bills based on meter size and actual usage. Of the citizens in attendance, no one expressed any opposition to what was proposed. ‘I […]
It was a night they’ll remember for the rest of their lives ? and that’s exactly the way it should be. About 40 of Oxford and Lake Orion’s special education students and members of LOFT, a post-high school program, attended a prom organized just for them Saturday evening at Merge Studio and Gallery. They ate. […]
Folks are encouraged to leave a little something extra for those less fortunate next to their mailbox on Saturday, May 10 as the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) conducts its 22nd annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive across the country. Mail carriers from the Oxford and Lake Orion post offices, along with volunteers, will […]
If $500,000 in state funding doesn’t come through to fix a badly-deteriorated stretch of W. Burdick St., commonly known as cemetery hill, the Oxford Village Council could decide to issue capital improvement bonds to pay for the project. Village Manager Joe Young said he authorized the municipality’s bond counsel to draft a resolution for council […]