No one should have to eat plain pasta. Now our neighbors in need won’t have to, since Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 334 North Oakland County has ensured the tomato and spaghetti sauce shelf at Oxford/Orion FISH Food Pantry will remain fully stocked for another year. FISH provides food for folks in need who live […]
Rest assured your vote will count in next month’s election. The Grand Rapids-based company Election Source spent Jan. 28 in Oxford Township’s meeting room testing the voting machines that will be used in Oxford’s March 10 presidential primary. The township election commission signed off on a legally-required public accuracy test conducted in the afternoon. Election […]
Third graders at Clear Lake Elementary had a special guest Jan. 22. An 18th century French fur trader, played by Genot Picor of Warren, shared stories, music, animal furs, tools and archaeological artifacts in the school’s library. Picor claims Metis ancestry, the ethnic subgroup derived from French fur traders and “the People of the Three […]
Longtime Addison Township resident Joe Kent announced this month he would run for Oakland County Treasurer. Kent is a tax professional licensed by the U.S. Department of Treasury. He founded Lake Orion-based Padgett Business Services and is a partner at Kent and Edwards Tax Advisors. People familiar with his professional background suggested that he run […]
Addison Township employees will soon see an increase to their paychecks in the coming months. At the Jan. 13 Addison Township Board meeting, board members, aside from trustee Linda Gierak who had an excused absence, voted unanimously to approve the resolution of a five percent wage increase for the fire department, township supervisor, clerk, treasurer […]
Watershed logo contest The Clinton River Watershed Council is accepting submissions for its 22nd annual River Day Logo design contest. The winning design will be used on official River Day shirts, event guide and CRWC website to promote River Day, which will be Saturday, June 13, in Springfield Township and throughout the watershed. The winner […]
VFW also awards Oxford IB’s Flynn as national Teacher of the Year Ruby Howe, a seventh grader at Kingsbury Country Day School, won the Patriot’s Pen essay award for her 300-400 word essay on “What Makes America Great” at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Mid-Winter Conference in Kalamazoo Jan. 23-26. She will now represent the […]
10 Years Ago Feb 3, 2010 Sometime Monday, a fire suppression system pipe burst at the Oxford Veterans Memorial Civic Center, flooding the first and second floors along with the entire basement. Oxford Community Schools has nixed its plans to buy a local church to house its preschool programs and is instead, looking to purchase […]
One of the Wildcats’ best players over the last three seasons and an even better young man, Drew Carpenter announced via Twitter on Jan. 21 he will be continuing his academic and football careers at Northwood University in Midland. “I began going to bigger camps after my sophomore year,” Carpenter said of how his recruitment […]
Rosalie Denton, an Addison Township resident for more than 30 years, has enjoyed the freedom that comes not only with retirement, but also from being an American. Having worked in the insurance business for several years, Denton recently discovered she has a knack for something else: painting. Denton recently used this new found talent to […]