Eleven years of practice and hard work on the ice rink have paid off for high school senior Saverio Posa. Posa, 17, displayed his talent on hockey teams within the area and on Detroit’s Triple A Little Caesars hockey team, for which he spent four years playing. In the 2008 OHL draft, Posa was drafted […]
So far this season, we have had over 12 days of 90-plus degree weather. This week, the local weather folks say we’ll get more 90-degree heat. With the hot weather upon us, we humans flock to the air-conditioners, beaches and swimming pools to cool off. But, let’s not forget we’re not the only ones suffering […]
It’s summer time, and for residents of Leonard and surrounding communities, that can mean only one thing–it’s time for the 53 Annual Strawberry Festival. All the fun begins with a Friday night kick-off dinner on July 15 catered by Isola’s Pizzaria. Chicken, ribs, corn on the cob, Italian sandwiches, potato salad and pizza by the […]
A serious car accident on Lapeer and Drahner at 7:30 a.m. left a 42-year-old Oxford woman in serious but stable condition. The crash had traffic at the intersection snarled during morning rush-hour traffic, Wednesday, June 29. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s reports, the woman was traveling northbound on Lapeer in her 1995 Ford Taurus. She […]
When Tom Spencer was appointed to his new position as the local pastor at Lakeville United Methodist Church, it felt like a homecoming to him and for his wife Kim. The Spencers, who moved to Lakeville from Rose City just last Saturday, both grew up in Oakland County — Tom in Lake Orion, and Kim […]
What do you get when you throw a 24-year-old, opinionated, straight male from Oxford with a 38-year-old, gay male marketing executive from San Francisco? You get Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary television series, 30 Days. Last year, Spurlock chronicled his own 30 days of eating nothing but McDonald’s for his film Supersize Me. The Manhattan resident […]
Congratulations to Oxford High School graduate Sean McDonald for his outstanding achievements in technology from the Oakland Technical Campus (Otech) on May 20. McDonald, 17, received the Dean’s Award for having all A’s and outstanding attendance from the Otech morning session. He was nominated by teachers for this award and also received a plaque and […]
Michelle Phelan, 28, of Northbranch (formerly of Oxford) and her sister Amanda Strang, 11, (still of Oxford), got their hair snipped at the Roots salon for the Locks of Love cancer organization. Their hair, a combined 24 inches, will be donated towards Rachel Sigmund, a young girl with allopecia. ‘Why just sweep it up into […]
When Mick Steiner and his wife Mary moved to Oxford last summer, he sensed there was a problem in their neighborhood. It wasn’t the neighbors, they were friendly. The houses were beautiful and well kept. Something just didn’t smell right. It just so happened the problem was that four days out of the week there […]
Mike and Darlene Hendrix are not just partners in marriage, they’re partners in their occupation as well. The Hendrix’s, who’ve been married 40 years and lived in Oxford since 1971, have been sales associates for Coldwell Banker Shooltz Realty in Oxford for the past decade. Mike worked for GM for 34 years and said he […]