A 19-year-old Macomb Township man accused of a Feb. 29 fatal hit-and-run in Oxford Township was arrested Monday morning. Noah William Johnson turned himself in at the Rochester Hills 52-3 District Court and was arraigned on the charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment or death. The […]
A 26-unit site condominium development proposed to be built in the southeast corner of Oxford Township cleared its first hurdle in the approval process last week. Planning commissioners voted 6-1, with a list of conditions, to recommend to the township board that preliminary site plan approval be granted for the North Oakland Woods project. The […]
All the signs of spring are here. Flowers are blooming. Days are becoming sunnier and warmer. Local vandals are running amok. This time, the victim was Oxford Village. Vandals spray-painted graffiti all over the Scripter Park beach house, the Department of Public Works (DPW) garage, the vacant industrial property at 98 S. Glaspie St., and […]
Some folks may remember Paul Graney from the three years he spent as a defenseman – or blueliner – for Oxford High School’s first-ever varsity hockey team. He still hits the ice for the occasional game, but these days, the 2003 OHS graduate is more interested in saving souls than preventing goals. On Saturday, Graney, […]
Plans to update security measures across the Oxford school district in 2016-17 – including at the high school press box, which was recently vandalized twice – were announced at a board of education meeting last week. The district will work in conjunction with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office and insurance providers for the updates to […]
It was wall-to-wall good news last week as Rana Emmons, a partner with the Plymouth-based PSLZ LLP Certified Public Accountants, presented the Oxford Township Board with the audit report for the 2015 fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31. Emmons was pleased to report the property tax revenue that feeds the township’s general fund – the […]
Oxford Village is going to give selling 98 S. Glaspie St. another shot, but this time, it’s going to have some assistance from real estate professionals. Last week, council voted 4-0 to approve a marketing and sales services proposal from Coldwell Banker Shooltz Realty for the former industrial property that the village purchased for $700,000 […]
A tanker truck purchased by the Oxford Fire Department in 1996 will be refurbished rather than replaced in order to save tax money and increase the vehicle’s lifespan. Last week, the township board voted 7-0 to spend up to $130,000 on the refurbishment. It will be done at Pierce Manufacturing Inc.’s Midwest Regional Service Center […]
A busy half-mile stretch of asphalt road connecting Oxford Township to the village is going to be resurfaced at some point. Last week, the Oxford Township Board voted 7-0 to allocate approximately $55,820 of its Tri-Party Program funding for the resurfacing of Pontiac Rd. from the Oxford Village limits to W. Drahner Rd. “That’s a […]
Michigan winters are widely known for being long, cold and brutal. For some families, keeping warm is a daily struggle. Alex VanHaren, a fourth-grader at Oxford Elementary School, has been working to ease that struggle for local students. Last winter, Alex came up with a solution for children without appropriate winter wear. He created a […]