The Oxford Women’s Club raised $4,500 for its scholarship fund at its annual Fashion Show held Wednesday, Oct. 1 at Boulder Pointe. The fund-raiser included a tasty dinner, stylish fashions from Kim Rose Fashions and Glorious Collections, and of course, shopping
Readers support Kim Shumaker for school board I am writing to endorse Kim Shumaker for Oxford Schools Board of Education. Kim has been a reliable asset to the school board for the last five years. She has a passion for the students of Oxford, always keeping in mind the value of the individual students. She […]
A horde of gruesome, rotting zombies is poised to descend on the Polly Ann Trail where they will satisfy their unnatural hunger by feasting upon the tender flesh of innocent runners. But don’t worry, it’s all for a good cause and nobody’s really going to be eaten alive ? well, maybe. The trail’s management council […]
High school reunions are typically for graduates and their spouses. But Oxford High School’s Class of 1964 got a special treat when a former teacher and school secretary attended its Sock Hop/50th reunion Saturday night at Oxford Elementary on Pontiac St. (see photo story on Page 17). Jerry and Mary Limbert travelled all the way […]
Oxford High School’s Class of 1964 hosted an old-fashioned Sock Hop Saturday night at Oxford Elementary on Pontiac St. The event served as a 50th reunion for the Class of 1964 and as a gathering for OHS graduates from 1958 through 1968. Everyone danced, reminisced, laughed and behaved like teenagers again. ? CJC
Oxford residents Michelle and Jeff Leitch are singing the praises of the Oxford Fire Dept. and Jeff Templeton, a paramedic, who recently helped save the life of their puppy, Angel, a Shih Tzu Chihuahua Yorkie mix. Michelle said that the mamma recently gave birth to five puppies about five weeks ago. The emergency situation occurred […]
Oxford’s queen finally has a throne of her very own on which to park her posterior and root for her beloved Wildcats during football season. ‘It is something to behold,? said Helen Smith, a proud 1952 Oxford High School graduate. ‘I was just stunned.? The Oxford Wildcat Athletic Boosters Association, led by President Mark Stepek, […]
School candidate forum Oct. 14 Are you interested in getting to know the candidates running for Oxford School Board better? Then get to the 7 p.m. candidate forum on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at the Boulder Pointe Banquet Center (1 Champions Circle). Sponsored by the Greater Oakland GOP Club, the forum facilitator will be Oakland County […]
The media, politicians, medical interests — in fact the whole world — is taken up with abbreviations. They’re like those hand-held gadgeteers who brag, ‘I’ve got an app for that.? Sitting here in front of my screen, I came up with my own abbreviation. FFOC Fastest Finger On Clicker. There’s more and more stuff that […]
When I was but a wee lad growing up on the mean, graveled streets of Clarkston, in the ghettos known as Independence Township, my last name was something other kids could easily make fun of. Because we illiterates outside the city proper (which was a village back then) would rather scratch our butts, play in […]