Four eighth-grade students spent Veterans Day weekend participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. during an Oxford Middle School class trip. More than 250 eighth-grade students and 22 chaperones recently took a three-day educational trip to Washington. D.C. OMS eighth-graders Lauren Hudson, Ava Wiscombe, Griffin Hoard and Esme Roda honored […]
After obtaining approvals from the Oxford Village Planning Commission and the Oxford Downtown Development Authority (DDA), developer Dave Weckle received the final green light needed to construct a third story on one of the buildings in his proposed mixed-use development. Last week, the village council voted unanimously to amend the original Planned Unit Development (PUD) […]
This holiday season, take the traditional holiday donation or drive in a new direction. You’ve collected canned and prepared foods, blankets, coats, and books. Not many people think of donating something simple that they use every day. This item is needed by people who have limited resources because of unemployment, homelessness, fire, or natural disaster. […]
Oxford Village is currently seeking three dedicated community members to fill board vacancies – one to serve as a member on the planning commission and two to serve as alternates on the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA). The planning commission is responsible for reviewing plans and studies for potential development and zoning ordinances within the […]
Oxford High School senior Kaitlyn Bean signed a letter of intent Nov. 13 to play softball for Central Michigan University (CMU), a first division team. Bean is a four-year varsity member of the Wildcats softball team. She pitches and plays first base. Now in her final year at OHS, Bean has made the most of […]
There’s strength in unity say members of Oxford Schools’ PTO and PTA organizations. With that in mind, they collectively held a fund-raiser event in town to benefit all district schools. More than 100 local moms came together to spend an evening at The Oxford Tap in downtown Oxford followed by a viewing of “A Bad […]
*UPDATE* The suspected shooter, Michael Quigley, is now in police custody. Oxford Schools and other area school districts closed Nov. 15 in response to an ongoing search by local police for 34-year-old Micheal Quigley, of Clarkston, who allegedly shot two people in a Brandon Township apartment Tuesday evening. The two victims were reported to be Quigley’s 33-year-old estranged wife and her male friend, whose age is […]
Oxford resident Jim Muys, a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Navy and is a member of North Oakland Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 334, shares his military experiences with Leonard Elementary fifth-grader Ena Esquivel during the school’s Veterans Day celebration on Nov. 10. For more photos, pick up a copy of The Oxford […]
District officials submitted the district’s preliminary count day numbers to the state last Wednesday, and are now in hopes of a larger check from the Michigan Department of Education (MDE). Based on the unofficial numbers, the district is up 262.04 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) students from last fall, bringing the total count up to 6,171.35. The […]
A Nov. 1 letter from Oxford Township attorney Gary Rentrop contained both good news and bad news for House of Providence (HOP). The good news – licensed child foster family group homes, such as those being proposed by HOP for a 118.32-acre property located at 3921 Barber Rd., are “allowed as a matter of right […]