Why does it seem like all summer activities and events are geared towards kids and families? Don’t the grown-ups deserve an opportunity to relax and have fun without having to settle arguments, clean up messes and be bombarded by requests? As an official “Kid-free Zone,” Treetop Lodge in Oxford, Michigan understands adults desperately need a […]
Kaitlyn Mattiello, a high school senior in Oxford Schools Early College (OSEC) program, found a unique way to raise awareness for Type 1 diabetes – golf. She recently organized an outing at Devil’s Ridge Golf Club in Oxford to benefit Type 1 diabetes research as part of her Capstone project through the OSEC program. For […]
The late Orion Art Center co-founder Joan Brace would have been proud of the 13 high school pieces submitted, including those entitled “Fading Out,” “Skateboard Workshop” and “Around the Bend.” After all, years after the art center became established so too was the Joan Brace Scholarship, an annual contest that awards $500 scholarships to help […]
Members of a local youth baseball team traded their bats for rakes and their leather mitts for work gloves as they spent Sunday afternoon doing volunteer yardwork for two ladies in need of some assistance. Eleven players from the 11U Blue Wildcats, a federation baseball team, and a handful of coaches raked leaves, swept porches, […]
This is why you don’t get too close to baby goats – they will eat your hair. But Oxford resident Kira Corrigan, 9, didn’t seem to mind a bit when Luigi, a baby Nigerian Dwarf goat from Upland Hills Farm in Addison Township, began nibbling on her blonde locks Saturday morning during a program at […]
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 […]