According to unofficial counts, it’s school board Trustee Elizabeth Egan, 24.77%, 7,334 votes; challenger Kelli Horst, 24.71%, 7,315 votes; and board Trustee Steve Hyer, 19.72%, 5,837 votes, elected to six-year terms on the Clarkston School Board. Challenger Donald E. Deering received 16.25%, 4,811 votes, and board President Rosalie Lieblang got 14.34%, 4,246 votes. Write-in votes, […]
Friday was Halloween, but at Kingsbury Country Day School in Addison Township it was also ‘Make a Difference Day.? Students at the K-8 public charter school did their part to make life a little better for the dogs at the K-9 Stray Rescue League who are patiently waiting to be adopted into loving homes. The […]
The Oxford High School Robotics ‘TORC? Team 2137 traveled to Midland on Oct. 18 to compete in the Great Lakes Bay Bot Bash. There they entered not one but two robots into the competition. This was a first for TORC. TORC used its 2014 competition robot, driven by Drew Sedam and its 2014 practice robot, […]
Oxford’s American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit 108 is forming a Junior Auxiliary Group and local families are invited to learn more by attending the kickoff meeting at Walter Fraser Post 108, located at 130 E. Drahner Rd., on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 5 p.m. Sisters, daughters, granddaughters and great granddaughters of American Legion members are […]
Move over Sundance Film Festival because an acclaimed, independent documentary about dyslexia will be screened at Kingsbury Country Day School (5000 Hosner Rd.) in Addison Township at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10. It’s called ‘The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia? and it will be shown in the Justin A. Schwartz Center, located at the southwest […]
As a recent contestant in the Miss Teen Michigan USA pageant, Emily Kalohn knows how good it feels to be up on stage, basking in the spotlight. ‘I just wish everyone could have the opportunity to feel as beautiful as I did on that night,? said the 18-year-old Oxford resident. In an effort to make […]
If there was one thing that Oxford Schools Superintendent Dr. William Skilling walked away with after the two public forums on the potential Chinese dormitories, it was a need for better communication to the public as a whole. ‘Had it not been for the board recommending two community forums, I never would have even attempted […]
A local band from Oxford’s past has gone international along with an old photo from this community newspaper. A photo of the thrash metal band Death Threat from the April 5, 1989 issue of the Leader was published as part of an in-depth interview featured in the third issue of Compilation of Death, a magazine […]
According to the auditors Oxford Schools has an ‘unmodified opinion? at the end of the fiscal year, which was June 30,2014. ‘An unmodified opinion is the best opinion that a CPA firm can render on a set of financial statements,? said CPA Jane Johnson, of Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Business Consultants, who presented the […]
Kudos to you C.J. Carnacchio (re: Making a deal with the Devil). I agree 200 percent. My biggest question is: Why is this a Dr. Skilling and/or Oxford School Board decision (to use school property to allow the building of a dormitory for Chinese/international students)? Why doesn’t this come before the taxpaying residents of Oxford […]