Layoffs are looming in the Oxford school district, but Superintendent Virginia Brennan-Kyro vowed the administration is working hard with the various employee unions and associations to ‘minimize? the numbers. ‘We’re trying to avoid as many layoffs as possible,? she said. ‘We’re a growing district and I’ve hired every single year that I’ve been here. This […]
They may be in the autumn of their years, but for the next few months they’re the boys of summer. Oxford’s newly formed Slow Pitch Senior Softball Team is rounding the bases and leaving its competition sobbing in the dugout. Last week, Oxford opened the season by thrashing Waterford Kennedy Optical 25-2 and stomping the […]
Someone has been purposely setting fires in Powell Lake Township Park and Ron Davis wants residents and park users to be on the look out. ‘Make note of who’s there,? said the director of the Oxford Township Parks and Recreation Department. ‘If they’re carrying a gas can, you know they’re up to something.? On Saturday, […]
Oxford Township’s first ever water treatment plant is up and running, but don’t expect that orange water to disappear overnight. The $1.6 million treatment plant located in the Oxford Woods subdivision on Queens Drive is currently removing the iron and arsenic from about 2,000 gallons of well water per minute. Shannon Parry, of the township’s […]
Today, they’re high school students, but tomorrow they’ll be the civic leaders and public servants guiding our communities and the nation. Four Oxford High School students have been selected to participate in three summer programs designed to educate them about public service, promote good citizenship and prepare them to someday take the reins of society. […]
If he builds it, she will stock it. That’s the premise behind the new wine business Frances Fischer, of Dryden, is trying to establish at the Hunters Ridge Hunt Club, 3921 Barber Road, in Oxford Twp. And she’s a step closer thanks to a determination by the township planning commission last week. Fischer is attempting […]
Numerous suspected homemade explosive devices discovered by police Friday night in the house of an Oxford High student led to the school’s evacuation Monday morning. After thoroughly searching OHS, five bomb-sniffing dogs from the Oakland and Macomb county sheriff’s departments along with the Sterling Heights and Southfield police departments found no trace of explosives, nothing. […]
Oxford Village taxpayers will see some relief on their property taxes bills this summer as council last night voted to lower the total levy by 1.5 mills. ‘I know I haven’t been on this council long, but I’m really proud to be part of a council that’s reducing the mills,? said Councilwoman Teri Stiles. Village […]
Some people go bald because of genetics. Some go bald to be stylish. Others go bald to save money on combs and shampoo. A group of Addison firefighters went bald last week to support one of their own as his father bravely battles a rare form of skin cancer. ‘It really hits home just how […]
If at first you don’t succeed, try annexation. That’s what Jim McGowan, owner of Oxford Products International at 544 Lakeville Road, is doing following Oxford Township’s denial last month of his request to rezone his 7.94-acre parcel from light industrial (M-1) to multiple family (RM) residential. McGowan and Bob Coltman, of the Rochester-based RTC Development, […]