Feb 2 fun at DA By Don Rush Oxford has a long relationship with Groundhog Day. In the early 2000s the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a number of Groundhog Day celebrations with Noah, the one-eyed groundhog making the prognostications for a number of years. In 2004, the Oxford Leader even published a “Groundhog […]
Is it me, or are there more and more “National” days these days? There are so many it’s really kinda hard to keep up with all the “National” fill in the blank days. To satisfy my curiosity, I hopped on the old internet and searched for “National Days In February.” Holy, jump the shark, Batman! […]
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF OXFORD PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 7:00 pm Notice is hereby given that, under the provisions of the Charter Township of Oxford Zoning Ordinance and the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act, the Charter Township of Oxford Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing at Charter Township of […]
First snow of 2023 closes school By Don Rush Usually it’s the month of March that goes out like a lion. This year, January beat March to the punch with a winter storm on Wednesday, Jan. 25 which dropped five-to-six inches of wet snow. The storm started in earnest in the early afternoon and continued […]
Plan to upgrade comes this week By Don Rush During January’s Addison Township Board meeting, Supervisor Bruce Pearson reported that due to the recent rash of power outages in the township and Leonard Village, he and Village President Mike McDonald would begin assessing DTE power poles. Pearson contacted representatives of DTE and received a list […]
By Don Rush Citing personnel changes at the Oxford School District – new superintendents, school board members and a new Executive Director of School Operations — Guidepost Solutions, the firm hired to investigate events leading up to and how the district handled the Nov. 30, 2021 high school school shooting announced last week their initial […]
By Don Rush For years Oxford Township resident Tiffaney Stoer was a nanny then a mommy, now she wants to be a full-time children’s book author. “We moved here from California about eight years ago, and this book has been in my brain ever since – maybe 10 years,” Stoer, 42, said. “Ten years ago […]
By Don Rush At their Jan. 17 meeting the Addison Township Board of Trustees voted on raising wages for township employees by seven percent. “It’s like I always say,” Supervisor Bruce Pearson told the board, “we need to retain our employees. It’s happened before. We have the best employees around, train them and then someone […]
Oxford Community Schools is promoting an online presentation on suicide awareness and prevention on Feb. 7 from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. The presentation will be presented via Zoom and will “help parents, staff and community members to learn more about how to start a conversation with youth, risk factors, warning signs, safety in the home, […]
For most of us these days the weather to a lot colder. And, when the thermometer mercury starts dropping below freezing it’s the time of year we here at your community newspaper start heating up and commence to work on an annual favorite section. Progress. Progress is the perfect way to introduce (or re-introduce) your […]