Armed with bags, buckets and baskets, kids of all ages stormed the grassy field at Seymour Lake Twp. Park Saturday afternoon to collect thousands of plastic eggs followed by ping pong balls dropped from a helicopter as part of the Easter Bunny Bonanza. The parks and recreation department sold 280 tickets for the event.
Legacy 925 was forced to close early on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 28 when a natural gas line ruptured outside the 208,000-square-foot building located at 925 N. Lapeer Rd. in Oxford Township. According to Fire Chief Pete Scholz, a worker using a power auger damaged an underground polyethylene gas line while installing bollards to […]
Sue Oles, owner of The Boulevard Boutique and Shabby Chic, is the newest member of the Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA). “It will be a learning experience, that’s for sure, and I hope to bring some new ideas as a business owner,” she said. Last week, the village council voted 5-0 to appoint Oles to […]
Sell it? Keep it? Rehabilitate it? Demolish part of it? The question of what to do with the municipal complex located at 18-22 W. Burdick St. continues to plague Oxford Village officials. During a special workshop held prior to the March 27 regular meeting, council discussed and debated the potential fate of the municipal building […]
Spring is here according to the calendar, but don’t tell that to the Oxford Village Council because it’s still talking about snow. Last week, officials continued discussing the need to get property owners to shovel their sidewalks and ways to make it happen. “As we all know, we have had snow problems for the last […]
If there’s ever an active shooter situation in Oxford, the village police department wants its officers prepared to deal with it and hopefully, save as many lives as possible. To that end, some officers recently underwent tactical training under Reserve Officer Gene Faermark, one of three firearms and tactics instructors for the agency. Faermark previously […]
Oakland County Sheriff’s Reserve Deputy Bruce Mack served as a special guest reader last week at Clear Lake Elementary School. He visited the classrooms of second-grade teachers Jennifer Clemens, Stacy MacDonald and Kristina Boyd. Mack’s book of choice was “Officer Buckle and Gloria,” a 1995 children’s story written by Peggy Rathmann. It tells the tale […]
Plans are in the works to honor James A. Sherman, Sr. with something truly befitting a man who spent his life in the newspaper industry – a manure spreader. Last week, employees from the Oxford Township Parks and Recreation Department removed an antique manure spreader from Sherman’s property along W. Drahner Rd. The plan, according […]
There was plenty of energetic Easter fun for the kiddies Saturday with egg hunts in both Centennial and Seymour Lake parks.
Oxford Fire Sgt. Rusty Fallin dropped thousands of colored plastic eggs from the department’s aerial truck during the Easter Egg Drop held Saturday at Christ the King Church on W. Drahner Rd. Once the plastic eggs hit the ground, a total of 275 kids scrambled to collect as many as they could in order […]