Three Q&A sessions for community on Thursday By Don Rush The first of two reports on what led up to and after the Nov. 30, 2021 shootings which saw four Oxford High School students murdered, is due out this week — prior to three community forums tomorrow. According Bradley Dizik, Executive Vice President at the […]
USPS Stamp Out Hunger program this Saturday By Don Rush Last Thursday, members of the Veterans of Foreign War Post North Oakland Post 334 presented a $1,200 check to “adopt a shelf” at the Oxford/Orion FISH food pantry, 1060 S. Lapeer Rd., Oxford. “This is our second shelf we have adopted,” VFW Quartermaster Chuck Haskins […]
Saturdays through October By Don Rush It’s been a few years in the planning, but this Saturday the wait ends. At 9 a.m., a special ribbon-cutting dedication ceremony recognizing the former Oxford Township Parks and Recreation Director Ron Davis and his family will commence. “This was by far a more complex project than I expected,” […]
By Don Rush Last week area residents may have noticed the American flag was at half mast last week at Station #1 of Oxford Fire Department on N. Washington St. Members of the lost one of their own, firefighter/paramedic Shawn Goldie. Goldie’s one year anniversary with the department was May 2. He passed away “peacefully” […]
District survey of parents found most didn’t want clinic By Don Rush A day before an informational meeting by Oxford Community Schools and Honor Community Health (HCH) was to take place, plans for a health care clinic inside Oxford High School were rescinded. The meeting was to have taken place on May 2. On May […]
Last Thursday United States Representative Elissa Slotkin (MI-07) had a special ceremony and reception in Howell to celebrate the nine future Cadets and Midshipmen who have been appointed to U.S. Service Academies, including Oxford High School senior Jared Cypher. According to a press release from Slotkin’s office, because the application and nomination process began in […]
On a cold and drizzly Saturday in April, almost 1,000 high school athletes competed in Oxford High School’s 60th Annual Elmer Ball Invitational Track Meet. The athletes represented almost 27 high schools from around the state. Oxford’s Varsity Girls took third place overall with a score of 59.5. Mercy High School finished first with 71 points […]
April 30 was a special day for Collier Lanes, 879 S. Lapeer Road. After 75 years of operation and four generations in Oxford, the bowling alley and family it’s named for, were inducted into the Michigan High School Interscholastic Bowling Coaches Association (MHSIBCA) Hall of Fame. The MHSIBCA held their annual awards ceremony at Thunderbowl […]
The older I get the more I appreciate parents. Fathers and Mothers. The closer Mother’s Day gets, the more I’m grateful to my mom, bless her soul. This year I channeled my inner Julio Iglesias to come up with the start of a Mother’s Day column. So, here we go. To all the mothers […]
Donna Bernice (Francis) Prescott, 92, died peacefully at home in Prescott, Ariz. on April 30, 2023, surrounded by her family. Born in Oakwood, Mich. on Nov. 17, 1930, she was the fourth of Donald and Bernice Francis’s nine children. Donna loved her first home in Oxford. The house she shared with her parents and all […]