By Megan Clapsaddle & Mary Reynolds Special to the Leader Team TORC, the Oxford High School robotics team pulled out a fantastic win this past weekend at the Waterford District Event held at Waterford Mott High School. The competition spanned two days (March 17 -18) with 39 teams from around the state bringing robots to […]
Oxford American Legion Post 108 – located at 130 E. Drahner Rd., east of M-24 – will host a gun show on Saturday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for teens ages 13-18. Kids 12 and under are free. All firearms must be cased when entering […]
Nothing makes you feel older and slower than watching Oxford High School auto students participate in their annual brake competition. Their nimble fingers are a blur as parts fly around them and their tools practically make sparks as they strike the metal. Auto Technology instructor Dan Balsley used one word to describe this year’s competition, […]
The Oxford High School marching band will order new uniforms for the first time in nearly 12 years, following board approval. During a regular meeting of the Oxford Schools Board of Education in February, board members listened to a presentation from OHS Band Director Jim Gibbons, who explained the need for the uniforms. It […]
March 18: Two people called Oxford Village Police between the hours of 7:15 a.m. and 6 p.m. to report they had allegedly seen a man walking around their yard and looking through windows in the 60 block of Pearl St. The man was described as a white male in his late 30’s who was wearing […]
Eli Glaz, 4½, a preschooler at Holy Cross Lutheran in Oxford, is quite surprised by how much power this ball canon has at the Daniel Axford/Oxford Elementary Spring Fair held Friday night. For more photos, please see Page 24. Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.
High winds with gusts exceeding 60 miles per hour blew through southeast Michigan March 8 causing approximately 800,000 DTE Energy customers, including many in Oxford and Addison townships, to lose power for the next few days. On social media, DTE called the damaging winds “the most significant weather event” the company had “experienced in its […]
Oxford’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) is getting ready to take another whack at revamping the streetscape along Washington St. (M-24). Last week, the DDA board voted 8-1 to approve a proposal from the Northville-based Grissim Metz Andriese Associates to design a streetscape plan and apply for a grant to help pay for its construction. The […]
Twenty-two Oxford students, grades 3-6, competed in the annual Academic Games tournament held March 1-3 in Grand Rapids. The tournament, organized by Michigan League of Academic Games (MLAG), challenges students’ thinking skills in the subjects of language arts, English, history and mathematics, and is designed to make learning fun. Oxford’s teams went up against schools […]
Plans to extend a water main by almost a mile-and-a half, from the Willow Lake subdivision to the Lake Villa Manufactured Home Community, are moving forward. Last week, the Oxford Township Board voted 6-0 to award the project to the Auburn Hills-based Superior Excavating for the bid amount of $1.518 million. Superior Excavating submitted the […]