Sometimes, it seems that love is an illusion, that your heart’s desire will never be met. But if you ask Kathy Smith and James Lantz, both of Oxford, they’ll tell you a much different story. Smith and Lantz first met back in 1965, just after Jim graduated from high school. He became smitten with the […]
Seven students from Oxford Elementary Schools attended the Academic Games National competition at the W.E. Skelton 4-H Center in Wirtz, VA April 29-May 4.. Overall, the Oxford Academic Games (AG) team won the National Elementary Championship in the game of Linguishtiks, and 2nd in Language Arts. OES also took home third place in Wff ‘n […]
Paul McDevitt, principal of Leonard Elementary, took his students to Asbaje Elementary in Tlalnepantla, Mexico on Thursday, May 3. As if that wasn’t enough, McDevitt also brought the Mexican elementary to Leonard. How did he accomplish this Herculean task? McDevitt managed it through the modern-day miracle of Skype, a video- over- internet phone service that […]
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a child is bullied every seven minutes. The anxiety from bullying leads 160,000 students each day to skip class. On Friday May 4, students from Oxford and Lake Orion said enough is enough. As a symbolic act against bullying, students from around the country stood up at noon […]
The Oxford varsity girls dropped a close one to North Harrison 7-6 on Monday night. Emma Kimmel, Jordan Pieczynski, Abby Wrobel, and Kayce Calcaterra divided up the scoring. On May 1, the Oxford High School Varsity girls lost an away game against Farmington 13-5. Despite the loss, Kimmel continued her scoring dominance with three goals. […]
The OHS varsity baseball team hosted Rochester for a doubleheader on Wednesday May 2. OHS lost 6-3 in the first and then, in the later match called because of darkness, played to a 4-4 draw. Other than ‘the first innings of both games? Coach Jeff Willis is ‘pleased with the efforts? of his varsity diamondmen. […]
Oxford varsity golfers finished third out of nine teams at the annual Bobcat Invitational on Monday, May 7. Though in third place overall, the defending champion OHS men’s team finished only seven strokes behind this year’s winner, Midland Dow. Varsity coach Terry Kelley was not happy about the loss and said the team is ‘not […]
The Oxford Community Schools Board of Education received a presentation from Umbaugh and Associates representatives Mike Givler and Jesse Nelson on Monday, May 7. Umbaugh presented the OCS Board with a very attractive offer. According to Assistant Superintendent Tim Loock, ‘an opportunity has presented itself for us to use taxable bonds to pay back the […]
Northern Oakland County saw mineral rights for two of its natural treasures leased on May 8. Mineral rights for the entire Polly Ann Trail and Watershed Preserve Park, located in northern Addison Township, were auctioned off in Lansing to Jordan Development Company, an Oil and Gas producer out of Traverse City, MI. Jordan Spokesman Ben […]
Oxford Middle School eighth-grader Cole Mayhew just smashed two school bowling records. On Saturday, April 28, Cole bowled a record setting 264, nine pins over the old mark. He followed that up with a 191 for a record two-game total of 455, two pins better than the previous record once held by current JV State […]