By Don Rush A year of sadness and healing, however a year of growth and opportunities. That is how Ava Swieczkowski described the year 2022. When last Leader readers read of Swieczkowski, 18, who goes by the professional name of Ava Swiss, was singing at Detroit’s annual Thanksgiving Parade. Before that, readers learned of the […]
By Don Rush Since 2007, Love INC of North Oakland County has worked on building relationships and a working network of 25 area churches to help residents who “lack resources.” They provide meals, clothing, household and personal items. All these ministries take money to operate and to that end, the group is having a fundraiser […]
Feb 2 fun at DA By Don Rush Oxford has a long relationship with Groundhog Day. In the early 2000s the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a number of Groundhog Day celebrations with Noah, the one-eyed groundhog making the prognostications for a number of years. In 2004, the Oxford Leader even published a “Groundhog […]
Oxford Varsity Competitive Cheer finished in first place in the OAA White after their meet at Troy High School on Saturday. While there they also broke the school record for round one with 232.8 points. They finished round two with 210.4 points and round three with 286.6 points, for a total of 729.44 points for […]
You have until Friday to help! By Jim Newell Special to the Leader In a time when there are more and more people who need a little extra help to get by every week, Orion Neighborhood Television is once again finding a way to assist their neighbors. It’s ONTV’s 13th consecutive year of stepping up […]
First snow of 2023 closes school By Don Rush Usually it’s the month of March that goes out like a lion. This year, January beat March to the punch with a winter storm on Wednesday, Jan. 25 which dropped five-to-six inches of wet snow. The storm started in earnest in the early afternoon and continued […]
Plan to upgrade comes this week By Don Rush During January’s Addison Township Board meeting, Supervisor Bruce Pearson reported that due to the recent rash of power outages in the township and Leonard Village, he and Village President Mike McDonald would begin assessing DTE power poles. Pearson contacted representatives of DTE and received a list […]
By Don Rush Citing personnel changes at the Oxford School District – new superintendents, school board members and a new Executive Director of School Operations — Guidepost Solutions, the firm hired to investigate events leading up to and how the district handled the Nov. 30, 2021 high school school shooting announced last week their initial […]
By Don Rush For years Oxford Township resident Tiffaney Stoer was a nanny then a mommy, now she wants to be a full-time children’s book author. “We moved here from California about eight years ago, and this book has been in my brain ever since – maybe 10 years,” Stoer, 42, said. “Ten years ago […]
By Don Rush At their Jan. 17 meeting the Addison Township Board of Trustees voted on raising wages for township employees by seven percent. “It’s like I always say,” Supervisor Bruce Pearson told the board, “we need to retain our employees. It’s happened before. We have the best employees around, train them and then someone […]