Bank bake sale raise $236 for Relay for Life

Oxford Bank’s main branch held a bake sale Friday and raised $236 for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life May 14-15 at Oxford High School. The bank is a $1,000 sponsor of the 24-hour relay event which is designed to raise money for cancer research and promote cancer awareness and education. Tony Lasher, marketing […]

Scollin earns Scholar Athlete Award at Marist Academy

Oxford resident J.T. Scollin was recently selected as his school’s recipient of the Winter Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) Scholar Athlete Award. An eighth-grader at the Marist Academy, a Catholic school in Pontiac, Scollin earned the award for his performance on the basketball court and in the classroom, where he maintains a grade point average above […]

You look mahvelous! Absolutely mahvelous!

It’s the property owners who wield paint brushes, plant flowers, and manicure their lawns to perfection that keep the Village of Oxford looking so good. To recognize all their hard work and aesthetic efforts, the village’s Beautification Commission recently named nine winners as part of its 16th Annual Beautification Awards program Three attractive businesses and […]

Decorating the cross at Easter

A group of children from Immanuel Congregational United Church of Christ spent part of their Easter morning decorating a small wooden cross outside the church with butterflies ? symbols of rebirth and new life. In photo above, we see Chase Donaldson begin the decorating while in the photo below Emily Wilder (left), Skye Donaldson (kneeling, […]

Youth, potential dominate cross country

With 12 freshmen on the boys team and a girls team dominated by underclassmen, potential is probably the best word to describe Oxford’s cross country squads this season. ‘We’re very, very pleased with both groups,? said Coach Ray Sutherland. ‘Our biggest strength is our potential.? A strong middle school program combined with the district’s elimination […]

Remembering 9/11 at Vets? Memorial

Every generation has a date it will never forget. For the World War II generation, it was Dec. 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. For the Baby Boomers, it was Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. For the current generation, it’s Sept. 11, 2001, the day Islamic […]

Crash!

OXFORD TWP. ? A two-car garage became a three-car garage Monday morning when the driver of a pickup truck lost control and crashed into it. A 27-year-old Brandon Twp. man was eastbound on Seymour Lake Rd. in his 2006 Ford F-250 truck when he ‘blacked out? around 10:23 a.m., left the roadway and ran full […]

Property/biz owners demand stop to streetscape, changes to DDA

A group of concerned Oxford property and business owners went before the village council last week demanding some fundamental changes be made in the way the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) operates, its focus and its plans for the future. ‘The general consensus is that we have lost confidence in the directions that the boards and […]

Forensic auditor has something to report, but what?

It appears the forensic auditor hired by Oxford Village last year to investigate missing public funds has found something, but exactly what is the question. ‘A public release of my information is not recommended for this ongoing criminal investigation,? wrote Karl Haiser, co-owner of the Ann Arbor-based Michigan Forensic Accounting, Inc., in a Jan. 7 […]

Council invites LO officials to discuss dispatch

The Oxford Village Council has extended an invitation to its counterpart in Lake Orion to conduct a joint, public meeting for the purpose of discussing the possibility of collaborating on police/fire dispatch services in an effort to save money. ‘It couldn’t hurt to sit down and talk with them,? said Councilman Tony Albensi. Council discussed […]