By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Crumbley family returned to court last week for a pair of short hearings in the twin Nov. 30 school shooting cases. Parents James and Jennifer Crumbley had a 10 a.m. pretrial hearing at the Oakland County Circuit Court on Tuesday, March 22. Judge Cheryl Matthews appointed independent attorneys […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer The Addison Township Board of Trustees approved the township library’s site plan at its Monday, March 22 meeting. Made unanimously, the board’s vote is the culmination of four months of discussions between the library and the township. The board had several housekeeping details and items it wanted to secure […]
This is our 103rd week of reporting local COVID numbers. This week our area continued to see decreases in recent cases and only a slight increase in total cases. COVID-related deaths stayed at 62. According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 6,178 cases from Leonard, west […]
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — In monitoring current events and political updates, community newspapers continue to grow in trustworthiness (7.38/10) and newspaper readers are voters (96%), Susquehanna Polling and Research Inc. found in a March 2022 survey. The survey of 1,000 adults from rural and urban communities across the U.S. conducted for the National Newspaper Association and NNA […]
By Morgan Kindermann Leader Student Writer Oxford HighSchool’s FIRST robotics competition team, Team 2137 The Oxford RoboCats won an Engineering Inspiration Award and made it to the quarterfinals with their robot, this past weekend at the Michigan District Belleville Event hosted by Belleville High School. The Engineering Inspiration Award celebrates outstanding success in forwarding respect […]
The Addison Township Friends of the Library is hosting a “Restaurant Gift Card Raffle” during the month of April. Funds raised from the raffle will be used for the new Library Building as well as Library Equipment, Programs and Services offered to the public throughout the year. Three prize drawings will be awarded, each consisting […]
Photostory by Dean Vaglia The Oxford High School spring sports teams were introduced at Meet the Teams on Tuesday, March 22. Held at the Ian Smith Gymnasium, each of the 18 teams and nearly 300 athletes taking part in nine sports this spring introduced themselves to the Oxford community. The event had addresses from Oxford […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Oxford Community Schools (OCS) received a $302,000 donation from Michigan high school sports programs on Sunday, March 20. Accepted by OCS Athletic Director Tony DeMare at the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association’s (MIAAA) annual conference in Traverse City, the money was raised over the course of February through a […]
By Dean Vaglia Leader Staff Writer Oxford High School senior John Asciutto is a finalist for the Jersey Mike’s Naismith High School Basketball Courage Award. Asciutto was named as one of 10 finalists for the award, which is presented by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to a male and female high school basketball player that has […]
It was a warm and sunny St. Patrick’s Day in downtown Oxford. The holiday and the good weather brought many people to enjoy good food, drink and friends. Clockwise from bottom: Owen Stange, Cassie Stange, Maddy Scheuler, Anna Terenzi and Mariana Terenzi grab lunch and some drinks at Gravcap Brewing. For more pictures and the […]