If you’re a senior citizen living in the Oxford area, like a free lunch and being entertained, don’t forget to call in to reserve your spot for Oxford Rotary Club’s annual Christmas Party. This decades old tradition is Tuesday, Dec.10, starting at 11:30 a.m. Live entertainment provided by Oxford High School students. The lunch will […]
On Nov. 16 the Women Marines Association packed 240 boxes to be shipped overseas for Christmas for our overseas troops. The boxes were packed at the Romeo Masonic Lodge in Romeo. VFW Post 334 donated $1,000 in food items for this event. Daniel Axford and Oxford Elementary schools, Kingsbury Country Day School, and Oxford and […]
Raises approved in Oxford Township At their Nov. 20 board meeting, Oxford Township Trustee approved raises for the supervisor, clerk and treasurer. Supervisor since May 1999, Bill Dunn will collect $82,369 in 2020. Treasurer Joe Ferrari and Clerk Curtis Wright will each earn $72,501. These wages represent 4.76 percent increases for the trio. For the […]
Oxford Middle School (OMS) seventh grade student Ava Tarach was awarded one of five honorable mentions in the middle school category of the “I Voted” Sticker contest. The contest was organized by The Celebration of Women’s Suffrage Movement Ad Hoc Committee with collaboration with the Oakland County Intermediate School District and the Cornerstone Community Financial […]
Beverly A. Johnson passed away peacefully at home on November 25, 2019. She was 85 years old. She was born in Marquette Michigan on January 16, 1934. Beverly was a longtime resident of Oxford and the beloved wife of the late Jim Johnson. She worked as the Deputy Clerk for the Charter Township of Oxford […]
Former Oxford resident Eloise Boat died on November 20, 2019. She was 96 years old. Eloise was born in Burnside Twp., Lapeer Co., in 1923, the third of six children born to William and Hazel Genevieve (Reid) Morell. She was predeceased by her parents, step-father Elmer Secord, siblings Milton Morell, Coiene (John) Meagher, Arnold (Lucille) […]
Pastor Wesley Norman Peterson, age 90, died peacefully on Monday, November 18, 2019, at his son’s home in Glenside, PA. He was born in Worcester, MA, on July 5, 1929, to Esther and Elmer Peterson. He attended Bethel College in St. Paul, MN. After marriage to Shirley Reid, they relocated to Michigan in 1956 and […]
Nuts! There’s less than two weeks until November is over and I (like many of you) still have leaves ready to fall from the trees in need of raking and bagging. That said, November’s are the month I start thinking of others. Normally, I like to believe the universe revolves around me. Me, me, me, […]
Last Wednesday Oxford High School staff dressed up in cardigan sweaters in honor of TV icon “Mr. Rogers” for World Kindness Day. Staff and students had spent the week reading up on Mr. Rogers for the day. World Kindness Day is an international holiday formed in 1998 to promote kindness throughout the world and is […]
Ski Club parents meeting The Oxford Ski and Snowboard Club will have a parents informational meeting Thursday night in the Oxford High School Media Center, starting at 7 p.m. This is for families of Oxford students (7 years old and up) who are interested in skiing or snowboarding at Mt. Holly and Pine Knob. Membership […]