Hitting The Streets! The Oxford Lions Club will be back on the streets this weekend (Dec. 2, 3 and 4) selling Goodfellow newspapers. Last year COVID-19 caused the club to shelve their newssacks. This year will be the club’s 73rd year of selling Goodfellow newspapers. Your donations go to help 37 area households in need […]
This is our 86th week of reporting local COVID numbers. Our area saw increases in recent cases and in total cases. COVID-related deaths stayed at 42. According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 3,814 cases from Leonard, west to Oxford. This week, 3,954. Recent cases, which […]
Let’s start with a quote attributed to Martin Kornfield: “If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.” * * * You may not know or believe this, but I am kinda a shy fellow. I don’t care to vocalize what I am thinking […]
This is our 85th week of reporting local COVID numbers. Our area saw a increases in recent cases and in total cases. COVID-related deaths increased by one to 42. According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 3,649 cases from Leonard, west to Oxford. This week, 3,814. […]
Every night I tend to reflect on the hours I was awake that day. Did I fail, hurt or belittle any person, situation or entity (on purpose or unintentionally). If I answer to myself, “yes” I figure out what needs to happen the next day to make things right. (Most nights, thankfully, the affirmative answer […]
This is our 84th week of reporting local COVID numbers. Our area saw a decrease in recent cases, and an increase in total cases. COVID-related deaths increased by one to 41. According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 3,553 cases from Leonard, west to Oxford. This […]
So the other week I had a local lady come visit me at my Oxford office. She had (maybe still has) some issues about something she and her husband received in the mail. Let’s call her “Virginia.” “Don,” said Virginia with obvious concern in her voice. “I got this survey in the mail and it […]
Former Lake Orion resident Ralph “Mac” MacLachlan passed away November 1, 2021 in Walla Walla, Wash., at the age of 82. Mac was born in Oxford, Michigan to George and Anna MacLachlan on August 1, 1939. He proudly served in the U.S. Navy, traveled the world doing what he enjoyed the most as an Aviation […]
This is our 83rd week of reporting local COVID numbers. Our area saw a decrease in recent cases, and an increase in total cases. COVID-related deaths increased by one to 41. According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 3,470 cases from Leonard, west to Oxford. This […]
Lifelong Oxford residents Bill and Roselyn VanWagoner (pictured) will celebrate 65 years of wedded bliss on November 24. They were married at Oxford Methodist Church on Burdick Street. They have two sons, Neil and Bruce, four grandchildren, Nelson, Samantha, Jana and Jacob, three great-grandchildren, Jace, Arie and Amelia. Asked how they will celebrate their anniversary […]