Oxford Community Schools’ recent success at the ballot box has cost the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) one of its board members. Last week, the DDA voted to accept the resignation of Sam Barna, the school district’s assistant superintendent of business and operations. He was appointed to the board in October 2016. Barna explained his “full […]
Jacob Donovan reached the top of the mountain in the scouting world. He’s now an Eagle Scout. A Court of Honor ceremony was recently held for Donovan, a member of Boy Scout Troop 366, at the D-Bar-A Scout Ranch in Metamora. Donovan, an Oxford High School senior, began his scouting career as a second-grader at […]
Shaylee Rich was part of a group of Lakeville and Clear Lake students who enjoyed a sumptuous pre-Thanksgiving feast Monday at Lakeville Elementary. To see more photos, purchase a copy of this week’s Leader for $1. Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.
Saturday night was filled with light, love and Lucy as the community came together to support a little girl’s battle with cancer. Approximately 280 folks attended a fund-raiser for Lucy Holt, of Oxford, held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Orion Township. The event netted more than $26,000 to help her parents, Bryan and […]
Oxford resident Jim Muys, a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Navy and is a member of North Oakland Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 334, shares his military experiences with Leonard Elementary fifth-grader Ena Esquivel during the school’s Veterans Day celebration on Nov. 10. For more photos, pick up a copy of The Oxford […]
A Nov. 1 letter from Oxford Township attorney Gary Rentrop contained both good news and bad news for House of Providence (HOP). The good news – licensed child foster family group homes, such as those being proposed by HOP for a 118.32-acre property located at 3921 Barber Rd., are “allowed as a matter of right […]
Nearly 40 veterans representing the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines visited Leonard Elementary Friday morning for the fifth-grade’s annual Veterans Day celebration. Students interviewed veterans about their experiences, then honored them with music and words of thanks and praise.
A proposed strip mall cleared two hurdles in the approval process at last week’s Oxford Township Planning Commission meeting. In separate 5-0 votes, the Oxford Commons project received preliminary site plan approval and special land use approval to allow one of the strip mall’s units to have a drive-through. Commissioners Tom Berger and Ed Hunwick […]
Oxford’s Legacy Center is one step closer to getting a liquor license, but not everyone is happy about it as evidenced by the township board’s narrow vote and some opposition from the audience at the Nov. 8 meeting. “Would you want a bar in your backyard?” said Marianne Kainz, a resident of the Stony Lake […]
In a month-and-a-half, another Oakland County Sheriff’s deputy will begin patrolling the roads and subdivisions of Oxford Township. Last week, the township board voted 7-0 to add a deputy to the substation beginning Jan. 1, 2018. “You have that increased need for that officer to be there,” said Sheriff’s Lt. Scott Patterson, commander of the […]