The Lady Cats won one game and lost two at the April 3 tournament held at Owosso High School, bringing their record to 2-11. The girls beat Haslett High School 13-4. Cheryl Banas went 4-5, scored 2 runs and had 1 RBI, Madison Dinges went 1-3, scored 2 runs and had 1 RBI, Skye Donaldson […]
Oxford High School’s Robotics Team TORC has competed in five FIRST Robotics World Championships since they were founded in 2007. With 5,000 high school teams worldwide, TORC was one of 400 teams to compete in the most recent world championship competition, held April 22 -27 in St. Louis Missouri. Out of the 400 teams, TORC […]
The Wildcats started off the week with a tough league loss of 11-5 to Rochester Adams, but by Friday night Oxford may have found its spring stride after dropping West Bloomfield at home 15-2 in Oakland Activities Association action. Oxford led wire to wire and topped the Lakers in all statistical categories and hopefully found […]
Banbury Cross Therapeutic Equestrian Center (1223 Brauer Rd.) in Metamora Twp. hosted its 24th Annual Derby Day Celebration on Saturday. Centered around the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, the event featured silent and live auctions, chances to pick the Derby’s winning horse, a parade featuring some of Banbury’s riders, horses and […]
Michigan State Police are investigating a fatal traffic crash in northern Oakland County. At approximately 5:30 p.m., May 6, a vehicle driven by a 49-year-old Ortonville man traveling southbound on I-75 near East Holly Road in Springfield Township was struck by a tire that came off a pickup truck heading in the northbound lanes. The […]
Forty years ago the number of chickens allowed per acre in Brandon Township would more than likely not have been an issue. Not today. ‘Right now it’s one chicken for two- and-a-half acres of property for land owners in Brandon Township’that may increase to about 15 birds for the same area,? said Bill Dinnan, Brandon […]
Brandon Twp.- From kindergarten to physics, the district’s three choices for Teacher of the Year are at the top of their class. Amy Poole, a kindergarten teacher at Oakwood Elementary, Dave Green, a Brandon Middle School science teacher, and Lesley Hildebrand, a science teacher at Brandon High School, were nominated for the 2013-2014 Oakland County […]
The feel of an elephant, tasty kudu, climbing a mountain and seeing a jail where Nelso Mandela was imprisoned are just some of the experiences Noah Cox had during a trip to South Africa last fall with his family. Noah, 13, shared his story as a young traveler during a presentation at the Old Mill […]
Brandon Twp.- An 18-year-old woman reported she was sexually assaulted in the township. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the township substation at 7:34 p.m., May 4 to meet with the woman, an Oxford Township resident. She told deputies she attended a party at an unknown address in Brandon Township with two of her […]
Brandon Twp.- Consumers Energy will make a decision by the end of this month on which roads to release in the final phase of a gas main extension project in the township. Township Supervisor Kathy Thurman announced at the board meeting Monday night that the public utility has received 351 returned applications for gas service […]