10 Years Ago Feb. 10, 2010 Oxford High School seniors Travis Roth and Chelsea Kessler were named King and Queen of Winterfest 2010 during half-time at Friday night’s basketball game. The girls varsity basketball team defeated Lapeer West, 49-32 to cap off the Winterfest fun. Oxford Village council intends to offer a tax abatement to […]
No one should have to eat plain pasta. Now our neighbors in need won’t have to, since Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 334 North Oakland County has ensured the tomato and spaghetti sauce shelf at Oxford/Orion FISH Food Pantry will remain fully stocked for another year. FISH provides food for folks in need who live […]
Rest assured your vote will count in next month’s election. The Grand Rapids-based company Election Source spent Jan. 28 in Oxford Township’s meeting room testing the voting machines that will be used in Oxford’s March 10 presidential primary. The township election commission signed off on a legally-required public accuracy test conducted in the afternoon. Election […]
Third graders at Clear Lake Elementary had a special guest Jan. 22. An 18th century French fur trader, played by Genot Picor of Warren, shared stories, music, animal furs, tools and archaeological artifacts in the school’s library. Picor claims Metis ancestry, the ethnic subgroup derived from French fur traders and “the People of the Three […]
Longtime Addison Township resident Joe Kent announced this month he would run for Oakland County Treasurer. Kent is a tax professional licensed by the U.S. Department of Treasury. He founded Lake Orion-based Padgett Business Services and is a partner at Kent and Edwards Tax Advisors. People familiar with his professional background suggested that he run […]
VFW also awards Oxford IB’s Flynn as national Teacher of the Year Ruby Howe, a seventh grader at Kingsbury Country Day School, won the Patriot’s Pen essay award for her 300-400 word essay on “What Makes America Great” at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Mid-Winter Conference in Kalamazoo Jan. 23-26. She will now represent the […]
It’s never too early to start planning for retirement. Students of Oxford Middle School drama club got a head start on their golden years as residents of a retirement community in “Showdown at Palm Tree Pines” this past month at Oxford High School Performing Arts Center. The family-friendly one-act comedy written by Tess Baker was […]
10 Years Ago Feb 3, 2010 Sometime Monday, a fire suppression system pipe burst at the Oxford Veterans Memorial Civic Center, flooding the first and second floors along with the entire basement. Oxford Community Schools has nixed its plans to buy a local church to house its preschool programs and is instead, looking to purchase […]
“We’ve been really fortunate because our snow season has not been bad,” said Oxford Village councilwoman Kate Logan on Jan. 14 (before it snowed over the weekend), “but I guarantee you if we were looking at three feet of snow out there tonight, we would have angry people in here because we have yet to […]
A local roofing company awarded Eugene (Geno) Mallia, Sr., a Korean War veteran, a new roof for his home in downtown Leonard, last week. Last year, Sure Guard Roofing & Maintenance Co., Wimsatt Building Materials and GAF sought nominations for a veteran whose home was in need of a roof repair. Although they have given […]