Let’s go seniors! Beat Davison!

Let’s go seniors! Beat Davison!

Following the Oxford varsity football team’s 35-0 victory over Troy Athens Friday to end regular season play, the seniors posed for a photo. The Cats will start the playoffs on Friday, Oct. 26 with a 7 p.m. home game against Davison. Front: Joe Vackaro. Second row: Jack Gordon, Trent Myre, Thomas Wandrie, Austin Schlicht, Joey […]

Addison OKs controversial cell tower

A controversial Verizon cell tower cleared the final two hurdles in the municipal approval process following nearly two-and-a-half hours of discussion at the Oct. 15 Addison Township Board meeting. In successive 6-1 votes, township officials approved Verizon’s site plan and the land lease agreement for the tower, a monopole structure. The tower will stand 199ft. […]

Opinions on tap room mixed at hearing

Opinions were mixed during an Oct. 16 public hearing before the Oxford Village Planning Commission regarding a request to allow a proposed microbrewery to operate a tap room in an industrially-zoned area. “It’s just not a good place for this activity,” said Charles Hubbard, president and owner of M.D. Hubbard Spring Co., located at 595 […]

Kingsbury to file 2nd suit to stop Verizon tower

Shortly after the Addison Township Board voted in favor of the controversial Verizon monopole that will be erected across the road from Kingsbury Country Day School, Phillip Maxwell, the attorney representing the school, spoke during public comment at the Oct. 15 meeting to inform officials that the school will be filing a lawsuit against the […]

Mom fund-raising for hospital that twice saved daughter’s life

Raising $10,000 for charity sounds like a Herculean task but to Laura Holt, it’s a small price to pay to thank the institution that saved her child’s life not once, but twice. Holt is collecting money for The Every Child Fund, which supports Boston Children’s Hospital. She will be running in the Boston Marathon on […]

Nonprofit teaches job skills to adults with autism

It’s easier to get out in the working world when you have competitive skills coupled with a little experience. That’s what Extraordinary Ventures of Michigan, located in Legacy 925, aims to make possible for adults living on the autism spectrum. The nonprofit gives its employees jobs that save other businesses’ time, such as laundry services, […]

Land question on Nov. 6 ballot

OXFORD VILLAGE – A piece of municipal-owned land that was supposed to be on the ballot two years ago, but wasn’t due to an administrative snafu, will finally make an appearance on the Nov. 6 ballot. Voters are being asked to give the village permission to sell a 0.589-acre piece of vacant land situated in […]

Village president cited for crash

Oxford Village Council President Sue Bossardet, 73, was cited for failing to yield in a crash that occurred on Oct. 17 at the intersection of W. Burdick and Hudson streets. According to the village police report, Bossardet, who was driving a 2017 Ford Escape, was in the process of turning left off W. Burdick St. […]

$2K donation to buy T-day dinners for FISH clients

Pass the stuffing because this Thanksgiving, the turkey is on Chuck. Chuck Schneider, a local real estate developer and owner of Unique Stuff and Spa on the Lake, both located in Oxford Village, donated $2,000 to Oxford-Orion FISH to help purchase Thanksgiving dinners for local folks in need. “I have been blessed with a successful […]