This is our 107th week of reporting local COVID numbers. This week our area saw continued slight increases in recent cases and total cases. COVID-related deaths stayed at 63. According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 6,230 cases from Leonard, west to Oxford. This week, 6,254. […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The community garden at Seymour Lake Township Park received a donation of raspberry and asparagus plants on Tuesday, April 5. “Our neighbor, Dusko [Marinkovski,] has a garden of his own and has a lot of crops that he was willing to donate to us,” Dawn Medici, Oxford Township Parks […]
By Don Rush Assistant Publisher While Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was listening to parents concerned about the schools boards actions in regards to the Nov. 30 shootings at the Legacy Center, the Oxford School Board had a special meeting of their own. Much of the three hour meeting included over an hour of closed […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer United Kingdom authorities arrested the 16-year-old boy behind three threatening phone calls to Oxford High School, according to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) statement. The 16-year-old threatened to commit a shooting in two calls and threatened to slap the detective that answered the third call on Fridady, April […]
Those who like reading in Addison Township have been smiling a little more since April 18 because that’s when the Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously to contribute $128,000 to Addison Township Library’s New Building Fund. “This contribution is a further indication of the community’s support for our project and will directly reduce the planned […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer A civil lawsuit filed on behalf of slain student Hana St. Juliana’s family on Thursday, April 14 accuses Oxford Community Schools of perpetrating a cover-up in the aftermath of the Nov. 30 Oxford High School shooting. Filed by Attorney Michael Pitt, the lawsuit argues OHS staff knew the shooter […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer A series of burglaries occurred between April 15 and 16 in a neighborhood off of W. Drahner Rd. in Oxford Township, according to reports by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO). At least three calls were made regarding the burglaries. One incident on Dakota Court involved a burglar entering […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Aerial spraying for spongy moth caterpillar suppression is set to begin around mid or late May. Funded in part by the Oakland County 2022 Moth Suppression Reimbursement Grant and by local townships, pesticide application will occur in three spray blocks across 446 acres in Oxford Township and nine spray […]
Legionnaires from American Legion Post 108 will be at intersections around Oxford on April 28, 29 and 30 to raise money and hand out poppies. Money raised through poppy donations will go to the various programs put on by American Legion Post 108 including annual eye clinics, the post’s annual police and fire appreciation dinner, […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Oxford Village Council discussed plans for a memorial to the four Oxford High School students killed in the Nov. 30, 2021 shooting at a budget workshop on Wednesday, April 20. The council set aside $7,000-8,000 in the parks budget for a memorial to be installed in Scripter Park. […]