In an effort to gain some breathing room, a longtime, well-known Oxford business is planning to build a brand new office on a vacant piece of land located in the village. Last week, Walton & Becker Eyecare presented a conceptual plan to the village planning commission calling for the construction of a one-story building approximately […]
Host it and they will come. That was definitely the case for the Oxford Public Library when it hosted ‘The Way We Worked,? a traveling Smithsonian Institute exhibition focused on the evolution of labor in America, from Dec. 6 through Feb. 1. Library Director Bryan Cloutier reported the facility welcomed 15,416 guests during the exhibit’s […]
It seems like government at all levels these days is either talking about, asking for or implementing tax increases. But not Oakland County. Last week, county Executive L. Brooks Patterson proposed cutting the county’s property tax rate by 0.15 mills over the next two years. County Commissioner Mike Spisz (R-Oxford) is all for it. ‘Anytime […]
There was a blackout last week during Oxford High’s Winterfest pep assembly, but it wasn’t due to a power failure. To make things more interesting and fun, the assembly took place in the dark.
Beating inside the leather-clad chests of many motorcyclists is the heart of a young boy or girl who remembers what it felt like to ride their bicycle as fast as they could through the neighborhood with the wind blowing through their hair on a sunny summer day. James Sergeant, Jr., director of the local chapter […]
Oakland County Sheriff’s investigators are searching for whoever threatened the Oxford school district with a bomb via an e-mail sent late Monday night to Deputy Superintendent Tim Throne. ‘We are looking into it,? said Sheriff’s Lt. Scott Patterson, commander of the Oxford Township substation. ‘It has been forwarded down to our computer crimes unit.? The […]
A woman accused of embezzling more than $250,000 from CAM Logic in downtown Oxford is in custody. Shavon Westley, 35, turned herself in Friday night at the Oxford Village Police Station on W. Burdick St., according to Chief Mike Neymanowski. Westley was arraigned Sunday morning in Rochester Hills 52-3 District Court on one count of […]
Sylvia Marie Majewska was deemed unfit to stand trial, at least for now, for allegedly murdering her 29-year-old son, Daryne Gailey, and 7-month-old granddaughter, Charley Lillian Hendrick, in Oxford last November. That was the outcome of the 65-year-old Addison Township resident’s competency hearing held Feb. 12 before Judge Lisa Asadoorian in Rochester Hills 52-3 District […]
Based on his myriad of Old West adventures, it seems like the Lone Ranger can do almost anything. But not even the legendary masked lawman can shut down a state highway for a day. Last week, the Oxford Village Council rejected a request to ask the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to close M-24 (Washington […]
Liliya Rettger has a new life, a new home and a new family in the United States, but she doesn’t want to forget her roots or turn her back on the people in her homeland. That’s why the 16-year-old Oakland Township resident is organizing a fund-raiser to aid the orphanage she came from in Ukraine […]