With M-24’s reconstruction scheduled to begin in 2020, the Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA) wants to ensure there will be plenty of parking spaces available so customers can continue to patronize businesses during the project. To that end, the DDA board last week formed an ad hoc committee to recommend parking-related changes and coordinate public […]
At the age of 13, Makayla Haywood had a summer job and an ambitious goal. Five years later, thanks to that job, she achieved her goal and now her college education is paid for. The Oxford High School senior was one of 23 Michigan students to be awarded the Western Golf Association’s Chick Evans Scholarship, […]
An Oxford Village resident’s attempt to sell a recreational vehicle via an online classified ad ended with police chasing three suspects who allegedly stole it on Jan. 23. Two of the suspects, a 25-year-old Redford man and a 29-year-old Detroit man, were apprehended, lodged at the Oakland County Jail, then released pending further investigation, according […]
Cancer claimed victory over Mark Terrian’s body last week, but it never defeated the man’s spirit, according to family and friends. The 53-year-old Oxford Village resident didn’t let his disease stop him from bringing home a paycheck to support his loved ones. He didn’t let it stop him from living life on his terms and […]
While celebrating the “state of the community,” Oxford Village officials looked toward the upcoming M-24 reconstruction project and the anticipated growth it will bring to the downtown area during the Oxford Chamber of Commerce’s community breakfast on Jan. 22. The audience included the community leaders, business owners and officials that will experience the project’s effects […]
Devona Wassil and her husband Mike sold many of their possessions and moved out to Australia when they were younger so Mike could take a new job for a few years. While they were gone, they rented out their Oxford home. When they returned, they had a house mostly vacant of any furniture and in […]
Honoring their years of service to Oxford, village Police Chief Mike Solwold and township Parks and Recreation Director Ron Davis were given leadership accolades by the chamber of commerce on Jan. 22 during a breakfast at Independence Village of Waterstone. Both men spoke of the community as a family, with Davis noting that family and […]
2018 was a banner year for Oxford-Orion FISH in terms of feeding folks in need. The all-volunteer, nonprofit group provided 186,953 pounds of free food to individuals living in Oxford, Addison and Orion townships and their respective villages. That’s 5,063 pounds more than in 2017. “It’s the most we’ve ever distributed in the history of […]
Oxford can continue to count itself among the nationally-recognized Main Street communities following a successful Jan. 17 evaluation. “We did get reaccredited for our performance last year,” announced Glenn Pape, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA), at his governing board’s Jan. 21 meeting. During the evaluation, the DDA received credit for all of […]
When American men marched off to fight in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, the 16 million women they left behind went to work in factories and shipyards making the tools needed to defeat the Axis powers. Their contributions on the home front were embodied by the cultural icon known as Rosie the […]