Owls from the Howell Nature Center visited the Oxford Public Library on March 7 as part of a special presentation on raptors. Beth Baumgartner, the wildlife education coordinator at the center, brought four owls – a great horned owl, screech owl, barn owl and snowy owl – as visual aids. For more photos from the […]
Starting later this month, folks who live in and around Lakeville will no longer be required to use Leonard as part of their address. It’s all thanks to the yearlong efforts of a group of residents and officials who are passionate about preserving local history and are sticklers when it comes to geography. Beginning March […]
Twenty-six Oxford High School students worked fast and furiously during the Auto Technology I course’s annual brake service competition held Feb. 26. Two-person teams went head-to-head to see who could completely disassemble and reassemble two different sets of rear drum brakes in the least amount of time. The work was timed with stopwatches, and everything […]
House of Providence was on just about everybody’s lips at the Feb. 28 Oxford Township Planning Commission meeting. Opponents and supporters of the nonprofit organization’s ongoing efforts to open facilities to house and care for foster youth in the township’s northeast quadrant – an area known as horse or hunt country – packed the meeting […]
An Oxford Township father accused of shaking his infant daughter to the point where she sustained critical injuries pleaded no contest to first-degree child abuse. Christopher Scott Williams, 25, entered his plea on Feb. 26 in Oakland County Circuit Court. A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt, however, the court treats it as […]
What types of uses should and should not be allowed in Oxford Township’s agricultural (AG) zoning district? That was the topic of a Feb. 28 public hearing conducted by the planning commission. The township is proposing zoning ordinance text amendments concerning permitted and special land uses in AG zoning, where the minimum lot size is […]
Three local students are part of a hockey team that recently took silver medals at a competition in Bay City. Daniel Axford (DA) Elementary first-graders William Frost and Delaney O’Dowd along with Harper Frost, a developmental kindergartner at DA, are members of the Lapeer Storm 6U Red Team. The team placed second at the annual […]
From the 1964 Motown classic “My Girl” to the 1997 tearjerker “Butterfly Kisses,” a whole slew of popular songs helped set the mood for the annual Daddy-Daughter Dance held Friday and Saturday nights at Devil’s Ridge Golf Club in Oxford. Organized by the Oxford Township Parks and Recreation Department, the dances were attended by 400 […]
With the M-24 construction project a year away from breaking ground, Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Director Glenn Pape delivered some news regarding it to his board last week. Pedestrian access was first on the list. Pape informed the DDA board that the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) granted “formal approval” to install a mid-block […]
Members of Rochester-North Oakland Elks Lodge #2225 in Addison Township proved you don’t have to wait for summer to take a refreshing dip in the lake. On Feb. 16, six hearty souls stripped down to their beachwear and dove into the icy waters of Shadow Lake as part of the lodge’s Third Annual Polar Plunge […]