Golfers are invited to sign up for the John and Virginia Hubbard One Club Scramble on Saturday, Oct. 13 at Oxford Hills Golf Club. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Oxford, the event will start at 1 p.m. The cost is $40 per person and includes nine holes of golf, a cart and lunch. Each […]
Last week, Oxford Township officials approved millage rates and budgets for the 2019 fiscal year, which begins Jan. 1. All of the property tax rates, which will be levied in December, were slightly reduced due to the state’s Headlee Amendment. The board set the township’s operating tax at 0.9197 mill. That helps support the general […]
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for Oxford-Orion FISH’s new food pantry will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The new 5,000-square-foot pantry is located at 1060 S. Lapeer Rd., just south of Drahner Rd., in Oxford Township. Due to the limited size of the new pantry’s lot, off-site parking […]
To kick off National Fire Prevention Week, the Oxford Fire Department will host its annual open house on Sunday, Oct. 7 from noon to 4 p.m. It will be held at Fire Station #1, located at 96 N. Washington St. Activities will include a smoke house, exploring the fire trucks and ambulances, meeting firefighters, spraying […]
By Shelby Stewart — Staff Writer for The Citizen BRANDON TWP. – At 5:18 a.m., Sept. 27 two motorists were involved in a head-on collision that took the life of one of the drivers. A gravel hauler, driven by a 43-year-old Oxford resident, was driving westbound on Oakwood Road just west of Hadley Road when a […]
Fraud at the sub shop A Subway manager called Oxford Village police on Sept. 25 to report fraud that had taken place the night before. According to the police report, the manager told police that two teenage African-American girls came into the restaurant and both made small purchases with $20 bills. One girl bought two […]
It’s tough being the new kid in school. It’s probably even tougher when a medical condition makes you stand out in the classroom and hallways. That’s why the students at Oxford Elementary School (OES) have been working extra hard to make fifth-grader Gavin Lawrey, who moved here from Cape Coral, Florida, feel welcome by raising […]
Filled with excitement and glee, Leonard Elementary third-grader Darian Pelkey, 8, picks out the perfect sunflower-themed cupcake Saturday afternoon during the Classic Car and Cupcake Challenge at the Addison Township Public Library. Watching is her mother Pam Pelkey. For more photos from the event, please see Page 12. Photo by C.J. Carnacchio. For more photos […]
If things keep going the way they are, it appears beer could overtake gravel as the product Oxford is best known for. A third microbrewery is looking to begin cranking out craft suds in the village. Addison Township couple Ben Schnurle and Morganne Matheis are seeking local and state approvals to open One Drop Brewing […]
Before they were born, 15-year-old Oxford twins Chloe and Lily Boothe had an experience that would change their lives. Being identical twins, they shared a placenta and Lily gave her blood to her sister, so Chloe grew much bigger than Lily while in the womb. The girls were then born prematurely, and the added circumstances […]