It appears Seymour Lake Township Park is going to get a little bit bigger. Last week, the Oxford Township Board voted 7-0 to reserve $130,000 from the building permit fund for a “possible loan” to the Oxford Township Parks and Recreation Department for “a future land purchase.” Parks Director Ron Davis asked the township to […]
Oxford community members are being asked for their thoughts and opinions on Oxford Schools to help work towards a better tomorrow for the district. Oxford’s school board discussed the upcoming surveys at a recent board meeting. The surveys are expected to be provided by K-12 Insight and are budgeted to cost the district approximately $5,000 […]
Oxford High School Band Director Jim Gibbons made an appeal for the school board to consider buying new band uniforms at a Feb. 21 meeting. The cost of the 200 uniforms would be $91,510 and would be paid for out of the 2017-18 general fund budget, according to Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations Sam […]
A 5-year-old Oxford Township boy is reported to be in stable condition with minor injuries after he was allegedly hit by his father’s truck late Monday afternoon. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, the boy was riding his bicycle in a neighbor’s driveway when he rode out into Chieftain Circle, near Deer Path Trail, […]
Feb 25: Oxford Village Police received a call at 12:06 p.m. from a concerned Oxford resident, who reported that a man wearing an orange jacket was allegedly making lewd gestures and pulling markers out of the ground. Police were unable to locate the suspect. Feb. 24: An 18-year-old Rochester man called Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies […]
Another longtime Oxford Village official will soon be exiting the local government scene, but not by choice. At a special Feb. 23 meeting that lasted approximately six minutes, council voted 3-2 to terminate village Manager Joe Young’s employment agreement effective Friday, March 31. Per the agreement, village attorney Bob Davis was directed to draft and […]
With his officers standing behind him, Oxford Village Police Chief Mike Neymanowski bid farewell to the community and expressed his gratitude to those who have supported him during last week’s council meeting. Feb. 14 was his last day. Photo by CJC. A lovefest erupted inside the Oxford Village Council chambers on Valentine’s Day. But it […]
The weather was warm Saturday, but the water was not. That didn’t stop members of Rochester-North Oakland Elks Lodge #2225 in Addison Township from taking a dip in Shadow Lake. These wild Elks cut a large hole in the ice, donned wacky costumes and took the old polar plunge into the freezing, unforgiving water. They […]
According to preliminary numbers from Oxford Schools’ Feb. 8 Count Day, the district is up 37.27 full-time equivalent (FTE) students from the fall’s preliminary count, bringing the total count to 5939.29. However, that number could change as the district has six weeks following count day for students to attend classes and be added to the […]
For years, folks have greeted Mike Solwold by saying, “Hey, Sarge!” But that’s just not going to cut it anymore. From now on, they’ll have to say, “Hey, Chief!” Last week, the Oxford Village Council unanimously approved a three-page agreement making Solwold interim/acting chief of the police department with an annualized salary of $62,000, plus […]