By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Addison Township is looking to upgrade Lake George Park with an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant trail. “The grant is to make an ADA compliant path down from the parking lot to the lake where we will be putting a dock in so that people can launch their […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Oxford Township Board of Trustees met for its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 9. Topics discussed include committee recommendations, fire department expansion and medical marijuana. Medical marijuana punted Two agenda items regulating medical marijuana businesses in the township were removed from the agenda following the distribution of flyers […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Kimberly Hartman, a 55-year-old Leonard woman, died last week in a single-vehicle traffic accident. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s deputy reports, Hartman was driving south on Lake George Rd. around Drahner Rd. in Addison Township on the morning of Monday, Feb. 7 when her 2007 Ford F-150 pickup truck […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Even if someone missed Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction, it was not hard to see more winter was on the way. A snowstorm blew through Oxford from Feb. 2-3 laying down around 6-8 inches of snow, closing schools, stopping bus service and painting the town with a hard-packing white mass. “We […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Oxford Township Board of Trustees will begin voting on whether to allow regulated medical marijuana businesses at its Wednesday, Feb. 9 meeting (tonight.) The decision will be made by voting on amendments to two ordinances. The first are zoning ordinance amendments from the Planning Commission regulating medical marijuana […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Village of Oxford Village Council moved its February meeting date from Tuesday the 8th to Wednesday the 9th (tonight). “There were some scheduling conflicts with council and residents placing a priority on attending school board meetings, which are also the first Tuesday of the month,” Tere Onica, Oxford […]
Ice sculptor Clinton Rich finishes displaying the first of five sculptures created for Week One of the Oxford and Lake Orion DDAs’ #StrongerTogether IceFest. Week One’s theme is #StrongerTogether, representing the bond between Oxford and Lake Orion. “Ebony and Ivory,” the Oxford School of Music’s sculpture, plays on both the harmony created by a piano’s […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Varsity basketball returned to a packed Oxford High School Ian Smith Gymnasium last week as the boys lost to the Berkley Bears on Friday, Feb. 4. The loss put an end to a full week of basketball for the boys and a truncated week for the girls, who were […]
An estimated 200 runners, walkers, cyclists and triathletes kicked off a chilly morning race outside the Oxford 7 theater on Sunday, Feb. 6. Organized by the Infinite Multisport Triathlon Club, the Oxford run was the last leg in a fundraising triathlon for the 42Strong Foundation, a foundation set up by the Myre family to provide […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA) was accredited by Main Street America on Wednesday, Jan. 12. Accredited status is the highest level of recognition by Main Street America, a program run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that focuses on downtown preservation and revitalization programs. Some of the […]