Elk View Estates? property owners received their final warning from the Oxford Township Board last week. They either agree to help pay for road and drainage fixes in their subdivision or their unapproved roads will be reported to the Oakland County Register of Deeds, making refinancing or selling properties there virtually impossible. ‘These homes are […]
It’s a subject with the potential to quickly ignite a heated and emotional debate within the community. But that’s not stopping Oxford Village Councilman Tony Albensi from wanting to discuss the idea of possibly of contracting with another entity to provide police and dispatch services to the village. ‘I know it’s not politically correct to […]
By C.J. Carnacchio Leader Editor If you ask defense attorney James L. Galen, Jr., he’ll tell you his client, Robert Brian Kelly, blacked out and has no recollection of allegedly beating his daughter with an aluminum baseball bat while she slept on the morning of May 9. ‘He came to with a metal baseball bat […]
Japan is more than 6,000 miles away, but that great distance doesn’t lessen Oxford’s willingness to help those in need. Just ask the Peel family. So far, the Oxford family has collected almost $3,000 in donations for the Red Cross to help victims of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that devastated parts of Japan […]
It appears the company responsible for drilling a faulty municipal well for Oxford Township is going to get an opportunity to literally straighten out the problem. Last week, Supervisor Bill Dunn reported to the board that in an effort to avoid potential legal action, Stearns Drilling Co., based near Grand Rapids, wishes to attempt fixing […]
Oxford Village is looking for some additional revenue to help beef up its 2011-12 budget, so officials are considering asking voters for permission to sell some public properties. It’s by no means a sure thing, but last week council indicated it would like its attorney to draft some ballot language seeking voters? permission to sell […]
As I listened to the Oxford Village Council’s budget discussion last week, I couldn’t help but wonder why they kept debating a lot of nickel-and-dime stuff that really wasn’t going to make a huge difference in the long run. Finally, Councilman Tony Albensi said something that smacked of common sense. Being it was at a […]
In an area typically dominated by Republican voters and candidates, Oxford and Addison Democrats took center stage for a change. Ninety-five local Democrats turned out at the Oxford Public Library Saturday, Feb. 7 to vote in Michigan’s Democratic Presidential Caucus. That number doesn’t include all the mail-in and on-line caucus votes, the exact number of […]
A head-on collision just south of M-24 and Teelin Road Wednesday night resulted in injuries to both drivers, one of which had to be airlifted to a hospital. An 18-year-old Wisconsin man driving a Geo Prizim was heading northbound in the southbound lanes of M-24 when he collided head-on with a southbound 1998 Honda Civic, […]
Three talented Oxford Middle School students earned top honors in the 2003 Oxford Public Library Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) Teen Poetry Contest. “I’m pretty impressed by our teenagers here in Oxford,” said Charli Osborne, Department Head of Young Adult Services at Oxford Public Library. Seventh-grader Jenifer Bizzotto won first place for her poem entitled, […]