Oxford grad’s audition on AGT goes well By Don Rush The 17th season of television’s America’s Got Talent got a little taste of Oxford last week, when Ava Swieczkowski opened up to sing and share her soul to judges, an in house audience and nearly 6 million Americans. “I was nervous walking on the stage […]
By Don Rush First Baptist Church of Oxford pastor Nathan Peloquin sees a need, he and others from his church sensed locals were in need of something and they figured out what that something was and what they could do about it. “Our community has been through hard times during the last few years. Many […]
Friday night lights and high school football are returning to town at the end of this month. Oxford High School Varsity Football head coach Zach Line has been working with the Wildcats since July to get players ready for the season opener at Romeo High School on Aug. 26. Oxford’s first home game is the […]
Raising funds to complete project By Don Rush Dominic Cutajar and his family have only lived in Leonard for about two year, but that isn’t stopping the 16-year-old from working to improve his community. Cutajar plans to build and install six signs in and around Leonard to earn his Eagle Scout Merit Badge. “I talked […]
Only one audience person spoke to the Oxford Village Council at its July 20 meeting, Major Murray and he wanted to talk about the village’s proposed residential inspection ordinance for rental properties. “I do not live in the village, but I own properties in the village,” he said. And, about the proposed ordinance, “I […]
About 20 young children enjoyed the tree shade at Oxford Public Library, 530 Pontiac Street, last Thursday morning. Even though it wasn’t the hottest part of the day, the temperature was in the mid 80s and Youth Librarian Kim Burean sang and read to the children for the summer Storytime Outside reading program. The library […]
Amazon driver alerts local family of home fire By Don Rush The Buss family doesn’t believe in coincidences – there had to be more to it. “I don’t believe it just happened,” Oxford Township resident Larry Buss said. “For a package to be delayed for a day and then to have an Amazon driver make […]
Not everyone is voting with an absentee ballot for the August 2 Primary Election. Many will vote the old fashioned way, by going to their local precincts. In both Oxford and Addison townships, the polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Since the election is after The Leader’s print date, we will […]
In a July 20, 2022 story headlined, “Taking care of Business” about the Oxford School Board meeting. The Leader wrote. “Administration and staff are to be clean, neat and well groomed, dress in a manner consistent with their responsibilities and to communicate to students a “pride in personal appearance.” The original version of this story […]
I really haven’t listened to music on the radio since about 1982. Music started to change back then (or maybe it was me), so I started listening to talk radio versus music stations. I tuned my car’s radio to WWJ, WJR and I think there was a sports talk radio on 1270 AM, too. Yup, […]