If you were standing outside the doors of Oxford High School’s Fine Arts Center Feb. 7, you might have thought Beethoven or Mozart was on the other side. It was actually the sounds of the Oakland Youth Orchestra’s studio string, string, philharmonia and symphony orchestra playing their winter concert. Featured in the atrium of the […]
While grappling as a team is over, 10 individuals from Oxford’s varsity wrestling team will continue onto Individual Regionals this Saturday Head Coach Brandon Rank said it’s exciting. ‘In that group we have a couple guys who are legitimate shots at being state champions, we have guys who are seeking their first all state performance […]
In the divisional championships, Oxford/Holly skiers raced against five other teams. The boys placed second and the girls? took third overall. In the boys? slalom Grand Blanc placed first, Oxford/Holly second, Powers Catholic third, Fenton/Linden fourth and flushing fifth. Greg Shultz led Oxford/Holly in sixth place with 1:00.07 runtime. Spencer Christen followed in eighth with […]
The Lady Wildcats took a hard loss to Rochester Adams on the hardwood on Feb. 5 losing 43 to 34. Adams scoring was led by Raiven Owusu with 19 points, while Jenny Rosonke contributed 11. Shelby Davis led Oxford with nine points. ‘Adams was able to shut down the normally balanced Oxford scoring attack and […]
Oxford Community Schools appears to have lost a handful students. The head count on student Count Day (Feb. 13) was 5,677 which is 10 less students from last fall, due to graduations at Cross Roads for Youth and Crossing Bridges High School, according to Linda Lewis, communications coordinator for the district. Lewis said the district […]
While Oxford Community Schools have experienced about the same graduation rate over the past few years, statewide there has been an increase. According to data released by the Michigan Center for Educational performance and information (CEPI), statewide four-year high school graduation rates last spring increased to 76.24 percent, that’s up 1.9 percent from the 2011 […]
What are the differences between Chinese and American teaching styles? Twenty-six students from the Michigan State University Confucius Institute got to find out last week. Oxford Community Schools was one of several districts the students observed as part of their field requirements for preparing to teach in American classrooms. The students spent time in classrooms […]
Seven Oxford wrestlers will find themselves competing in the individual state championships beginning Feb. 28 at the Palace of Auburn Hills. ‘It’s pretty exciting. We had five guys in the finals that were underclassmen. Things like that bode well for the future, but give them a chance to get on a big stage of competition […]
After being laid off for two weeks the Oxford Boys? varsity hoopsters took a hard 48-40 loss to Stoney Creek on Feb. 14. Going into halftime with Oxford leading 12-9, Stoney fought back in the third bringing the score close 21-24. The game hovered around four points during most of the fourth quarter. With under […]
The Lady Wildcats lost two this past week bringing their record to 13-5 on the season and 11-3 in the league. Behind red hot three-point shooting Stoney Creek defeated Oxford 46-42 on Feb. 12. After jumping out to an early six point lead, Stoney never surrendered,? according to Brian Murphy, Oxford’s stats keeper. ‘Oxford closed […]