There are three candidates for two, four-year seats on the Oxford Village Council. They are Dave Bailey, Rose Bejma, and Erik Dolan. There is only one candidate for the two-year council seat and it’s Tom Kennis, an incumbent, who’s running as a write-in. For full profiles on each of the candidates, pick up your copy […]
Truckers beware because Oxford Village is beefing up its efforts to catch those of you who violate state law and local ordinances. Last week, council voted 5-0 to create a part-time commercial vehicle enforcement officer position. “This certainly, I think, is needed,” said Police Chief Mike Neymanowski, who presented the idea to council. The position […]
Rezoning approved Four parcels of property on the east and west sides of Louck St. were rezoned from multiple family residential to industrial in a 5-0 vote of the Oxford Village Council last week. Located at 32 and 45 Louck St., between Church and Center streets, east of M-24, the parcels are owned by Industrial […]
A fond farewell was bid to a charter member of the Polly Ann Trail Management Council (PATMC). Addison Township Trustee Ed Brakefield, who’s served on the council since its inception in 1997, received a plaque bearing a silver-colored railroad spike. It was meant to be an expression of the PATMC’s “deepest gratitude” for the many […]
Depending how you look at it, a current fund-raiser at Kingsbury Country Day School in Addison Township is either very ironic or very appropriate. Since the beginning of October, the school has been selling socks in order to buy prosthetic legs for people in need around the globe So far, things our going very well. […]
OXFORD TWP. – Two young men are in custody and charges are pending following a shooting that took place Wednesday night at the intersection of Oakdell, Glaspie and Olive roads, just west of M-24. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s Lt. Scott Patterson, the three men were in a maroon Chevy Trailblazer from which multiple shots […]
Lakeville Elementary second-grader Josie Delano chomps her doughnut with gusto during an eating contest at the school’s Fall Festival Friday night. For more festival photos and scenes from the haunted house, see “Fall Festival fun!” and “Welcome to Lakeville’s haunted house.” Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.
Things are about to get messy in Oxford – very messy. That’s because Tough Mudder is coming. Endurance sports athletes get ready to crawl and slosh through the mud because the 1,200-acre Koenig Sand and Gravel property along Lakeville Rd. will host what bills itself as “probably the toughest event on the planet” on June […]
Two Oxford Township residents, Larry Parraghi and Julie Wilde, are dead following a two-vehicle crash Monday night on Ray Rd. between M-24 and N. Oxford Rd. by the high school. Parraghi, 43, was the father of one student at Lakeville Elementary, a developmental kindergartner who was in the vehicle at the time of the accident, […]
Yellow and blues lines typically divide parking lots into standard and handicap spaces. But there’s a new color in the parking lot of Coldwell Banker Shooltz Realty in Oxford Village – pink. Pink lines denote the new space specifically reserved for breast cancer survivors, which includes anyone who has ever been diagnosed with the disease, […]