The Lady Wildcats Lacrosse season came to an end on May 23 after the Academy of the Sacred Heart beat Oxford 19-5 at the MHSAA Regional playoffs. ‘Sacred Heart is a good team and they played well,? said Coach Andrew Bausack. ‘We weren’t able to get into any sort of rhythm the entire game.? Sophmores […]
The Lady Booters season came to an end after losing 4-0 against Rochester High School on May 30 at the MHSAA District semifinals. ‘We played for a really good 33 minutes against Rochester. Then we gave up a goal and then I think we ran out of gas,? said Head Coach Larry Ferris. ‘We had […]
Oxford Elementary School students celebrated the end of the school year by holding their annual Field Day May 31.
One stroke, that’s all that was between the Oxford boys? varsity golf team and heading to the MHSAA Regionals. With a score of 326 the Wildcats placed seventh out of 12 teasms at the MHSAA District tournament on May 29 at Coyote Preserve in Fenton. Regional qualifiers included Grand Blanc, 312, Clarkston, 317, Lake Orion/Rochester […]
In order to fix Oxford Community Schools? $467,817 deficit for the 2013-14 budget, which is proposed to be $45.84 million, teachers and administrators agreed to take pay cuts across the board based on student population growth next year (see below). ‘The administrators and the teachers have agreed to give salary concessions of two percent, which […]
After being approached by Walton Charter Academy, a K-8 school in Pontiac, Oxford Community Schools? administrators are considering sending a bus there to pick up students entering their freshman year of high school as a part of the schools of choice program. ‘The reason they met with us was because most of their students would […]
After having put herself through college by selling real-estate and graduating from Oakland University with honors, Sarah Tierney was always goal oriented until one day she ‘didn’t care about anything.? In 2009, Tierney, lost her job as an account representative after 17 years with the company she worked for. Six months later, her mom died […]
With a $200,000 matching grant from the NFL (National Football League) Foundation, The Oxford Turf Committee is one step closer to paying off the remaining debt of Oxford’s High School’s synthetic blue turf, according to Turf Committee Chairman Jim Reis. ‘I think we’ve raised on our own about $228,000 and they donated $200,000. It’s awesome,? […]
Addison Township Art Group is a place for both learning and teaching. ‘We’ll gladly mentor others if they want to come in and we’ll gladly learn from others,? said Jerry Thomas, leader of the group. ‘It’s very rewarding.? The group, which has been meeting for about year, gathers every Friday in the Addison Township Senior […]
Are you a biker looking to ride for a good cause? Then get out to BullFrogs in Ortonville on July 13, for the Fourth Annual Rubber & Roads Charity Bike Ride and Dinner. The ride is to honor Anna Boeck who died of leukemia in January 2010. Boeck was the fianc’e to the brother of […]