Some might take for granted how important driving a school bus really is. They greet your children every day. The lives of your children are in their hands and they do it all with 50 plus students facing their backs. Some parents can’t even handle a trip to the store with two children in the […]
Anybody who’s driven down Lakeville Rd. and passed Addison Township’s Fire Station 2 knows it’s time for a change. Just last August, the new 12,000 square foot Fire Station 1 near Leonard was built and has become an eye-pleasing site along Forest Road. Fire Station 2, on the other hand, needs a little work. ‘It’s […]
Some high honors were bestowed upon the members of the Varsity Girls Golf Team. Seniors Taylor Holtshouser and Anna Tomaka, along with Sophomore Hannah Beebe were honorable mentions for the Flint Metro League All-Conference team. In addition to Haltshouser and Tomaka being named honorable mentions, they were also part of five Wildcats who made the […]
Not too bad for a freshman season. Freshman duo runners Brooke Kovacic and Ashley Burr tested the challenging course at the State Championships on Nov. 7, which was held at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI. If you were to ask Coach Sutherland, he would say they passed with flying colors. Kovacic paced her […]
Blues fans young and old battled the heat and enjoyed the beat of the highly anticipated Hot Blues and BBQ Festival last Saturday behind the Oxford municipal complex. Approximately 1,400 people from near and far spent the morning and evening engulfed in the music of acts like Lady Sunshine and the X Band, blues pioneer, […]
The Wildcat Varsity Volleyball team checked into the heartbreak hotel after coming up just short in their district semi-final against Rochester Adams on Wednesday, Nov. 4. A silence swept through the stunned crowd that witnessed Adams come back from a 2-0 set deficit to beat the Wildcats in five sets. The Wildcats won a highly […]
When the regular season ended, the Girls Varsity Swim and Dive team found themselves in a three way tie for second with Lapeer and Holly. Oxford lost to Lapeer, Lapeer lost to Holly and Holly lost to Oxford, which meant that where each team placed in the League meet would be their overall place in […]
When the Oxford School Board announced its budget reduction plans in April, its proposed strategy to cut various athletic programs ? such as boys and girls golf ? and extracurricular clubs at the high school and middle school levels drew tons of criticism from the public. After many meetings with a committee of concerned parents, […]
Too much or too little faith can be dangerous. It’s proven in Jim Leonards Jr.’s ‘The Diviners.? ‘The Diviners? is the story of mentally-disabled Buddy Layman, played by junior Cameron Thompson, who has the ability to divine, or find, water. When Buddy meets the town preacher C.C Showers, played by senior Chris Godin, a cathartic […]
Too long. No room on the schedule. Lack of interest. These are the main reasons students gave as to why they didn’t sign up for Oxford High School’s CAD (Computer Aided Design) classes next year. As a result of low enrollment, the program was suspended for the 2005-06 school year, drawing a room full of […]