10 Years Ago Feb. 10, 2010 Oxford High School seniors Travis Roth and Chelsea Kessler were named King and Queen of Winterfest 2010 during half-time at Friday night’s basketball game. The girls varsity basketball team defeated Lapeer West, 49-32 to cap off the Winterfest fun. Oxford Village council intends to offer a tax abatement to […]
Prickles was just a small town swan living near a lonely pond in Addison Township before being rescued and sent to the Howell Nature Center for rehabilitation late last year. She recently made her way south, toward Detroit, taking a midnight crate to her new home at the Detroit Zoo. Prickles is a trumpeter swan […]
For a better part of a month residents on Hummer Lake Rd. have complained about flooding just west of Metamora Rd. This week on its FaceBook page Oxford Township announced the road, “is open to traffic again after being closed due to water covering the roadway.” On Monday, workers from the Road Commission for Oakland […]
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 […]