More than 450 Vietnam-era veterans received a long overdue “welcome home” from The Oxford American Legion Post 108 at a ceremony October 23. Veterans were treated to a warm meal, vintage jazz and swing music, and were each given a federally-sanctioned lapel pin to thank them for their service. More than 50 years after their […]
Things got strange at Lakeville Elementary on Friday and Saturday night as the school’s Parent School Council hosted its annual haunted house. It gave kids and parents alike quite a fright as they discovered people being sawed in half and kids being turned into giant blobs of cotton candy. The whole event was creepy, kooky, […]
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, […]
Having a blast doing some drumming at the Scarecrow Festival in downtown Oxford Saturday are (from left) twin sisters Regan and Rylee Neisler, Annabelle Meldrum and McKayla Sedlock. For more festival photos, please see “Lots to crow about.” Photo by CJC.
With the exception of two public safety officers, there were no residents at the Oct. 13 Oxford Township Planning Commission meeting who spoke in favor of placing a cell tower in Seymour Lake Park. “I don’t need that ugly thing in my backyard,” said Joe Strzelecki, a 25-year Oxford resident. “This tower placement is inconsistent […]
By Liz Shepard Special to the Leader The Oxford High School Equestrian Team capped off its hunt for a state championship in a whirl of blue and gold Sunday. The eight riders didn’t walk to accept their trophy, they ran, and flipped and cheered before hoisting the Michigan Interscholastic Horsemanship Association Division B championship trophy […]
Downtown Oxford was packed Saturday with folks young and old, all of whom were there to enjoy the annual Scarecrow Festival.
Welcome home. These are two such simple words, but they can mean the world to a veteran who never heard them uttered when he or she returned from war. Vietnam veterans know this all too well. That’s why Oxford American Legion Post 108, located at 130 E. Drahner Rd., is hosting a “Welcome Home” event […]
Round 2 was fought last week over Oxford Village’s proposed rental ordinance, but still no decision has been made. For more than an hour, public safety officials and local property owners made their cases for and against a proposed ordinance that would mandate the registration and inspection of all residential rental properties. Public safety officials […]
Oxford Village is finally going to learn whether or not a former industrial site it purchased 10 years ago has any contamination. Last week, council voted 4-0 to approve a proposal from the Brighton-based ASTI Environmental to conduct a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) for an amount not to exceed $6,600. A Phase II […]