Cadet Ross M. Skilling accepted the George C. Marshall surrounded by his peers at the Marshall Center, Virginia Military Institute. ‘I was quite honored to be recognized as one of the top in the nation,? said Skilling. The award is presented annually to the most outstanding senior Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets in […]
Oxford resident KC Orr was in Waterford June 15 when she lent her services to a female mallard duck in distress. She was at her son’s baseball game at Waterford Kettering High School and needed to run into town. Kettering didn’t have any restroom facilities available, so Orr and her daughter, Kennedy, got into their […]
Let the bids begin as Addison Township moves forward in the next step of their plans for the Arnold School. The Addison Township Board passed two motions during their monthly meeting June 15. The first was to purchase the building from the Addison Township Community Church at the cost of $1. Addison Attorney Robert Davis […]
Every day Bobby Buxbaum adds another goal to the list of tasks he wants to complete after undergoing a double lung transplant. He put hockey on the list during the Stanley Cup playoffs, but until the 24-year-old Brandon native gets a new set of lungs, hitting the ice will just have to wait. You see […]
Motorists expecting to see orange barrels in Addison Township this month will have to wait a while longer. The road construction originally planned to begin in the middle of July on Rochester Road, from Lakeville Road to Predmore Road, has been pushed back to August by the Road Commission for Oakland County. ‘It ended up […]
A car accident in downtown Oxford slowed traffic on the afternoon of June 24. A 2003 white Pontiac was stopped at Stanton Rd. Traffic heading northbound on Washington St. stopped to allow the driver to go across. Traffic heading southbound was not clear as she tried to drive across four lanes to get to Dennison […]
Oxford United Methodist Church is celebrating its 175th anniversary by offering the community a little relief in today’s troubled economy. A new program called ‘Free Meals at OUMC? will debut July 15 with free dinners every Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. ‘Anyone can come,? said Coordinator Colleen Richter. ‘There are a lot of families […]
A fawn was lying on the porch when Oxford resident George Navarre got home on June 21. The next day the fawn returned and laid down in the same spot next to the porch railing. She was enjoying the view of the woods surrounding the house. Later in the afternoon, Navarre spotted the fawn underneath […]
Oxford resident Martha VanBlerk is becoming an internationally-known mother. She’s already taken care of a German boy and now she’s awaiting the arrival of a girl from Thailand. VanBlerk and her kin serve as host family in Youth for Understanding (YFU), a foreign exchange student program. YFU is an educational experience that includes learning how […]
Addison Township Supervisor Bruce Pearson had the fire chief job description on his desk Monday, waiting for the next step in the hiring process. Both the fire board and township board must now approve the document before it’s posted and position’s advertised. The job description was sent to the fire board this week for them […]