I pledge allegiance to the flag…

Clear Lake Elementary’s fifth-graders gathered outside the school Friday afternoon for the raising of a brand new American flag. According to Principal Brad Bigelow, the old one had become worn and tattered, so he decided it was time to replace it. The flag-raising coincided with the school’s Veterans Day activities, which included a visit from […]

Oxford Bank shareholders approve sale to Level One

Oxford Bank shareholders have spoken and a majority of them wish to sell their stock to the Farmington Hills-based Level One Bank. That was the result of a vote taken at the Nov. 13 shareholders meeting held at American Legion Post 108 in Oxford. Level One’s offer to purchase all of Oxford Bank’s stock for […]

Nice day for a bike ride

Saturday was a great day for a nice long bike ride and that’s exactly what the 243 cyclists who participated in the 10th Annual Rural Pearl of a Ride did. The fund-raising bike ride that began on the Polly Ann Trail raised $4,986 for Oxford-Addison Youth Assistance and Orion Area Youth Assistance. Although there were […]

Peace was close, but a torpedo was closer

Peace was just two days away when Albert Anderson got his last taste of battle in World War II. The 91-year-old Oxford resident was a Marine serving aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania (BB-38) when a Japanese plane slipped in undetected and hit the super-dreadnought battleship with a 2,000-pound torpedo while it was anchored in Buckner Bay, […]

Voters OK public safety taxes, give permission to sell properties

Voters in Oxford and Addison were definitely in a very generous mood when they went to the polls for the Nov. 6 election. In Oxford Township, voters approved a two-year, 1-mill tax increase for police services by a margin of 4,191 to 4,044. ‘I’m just proud as hell of everybody that participated in the (pro-millage […]

Voter-turnout high, dominated by GOP

Local voters weren’t shy about going to the polls last week as demonstrated by the large turnout in Oxford and Addison. A total of 10,571 (or 70.22 percent) of Oxford Township’s 15,054 registered voters participated in the Nov. 6 election. A total of 3,608 (or 72.41 percent) of Addison’s 4,983 registered voters cast a ballot, […]

Kingsbury honors local veterans

Kingsbury Country Day School in Addison Township celebrated Veterans Day on Monday with some local servicemen. After being treated to a delicious breakfast, the veterans introduced themselves, then listened as students talked about what Veterans Day means, read original poetry and even sang ‘America the Beautiful.? Veterans who attended Kingsbury’s event fought in conflicts ranging […]

Pregnant voter welcomes boy

Longtime Oxford resident Angela (Forte) Ball’s vote didn’t succeed in putting her candidate, Republican Mitt Romney, in the White House, but she succeeded in bringing a brand new life into the world. Last week, the Leader reported on how a very-pregnant Ball voted in the Nov. 6 general election despite the fact she was having […]

Remember vets, but don’t glorify war

‘I was part of the forgotten generation that nobody liked. When I came back, I was spit on. We were called baby-killers. It was terrible.? That’s what Oxford resident Jim (Mouse) Muys remembers about coming back to the United States after serving in the Vietnam War. Back then, there were no ticker-tape parades or elaborate […]

Cancer survivor sings praises of one-shot radiation treatment

he idea of spending five to seven weeks visiting a hospital for daily radiation treatments didn’t appeal to Vula Reese for a number of reasons. That’s why the 47-year-old Oxford resident is more than happy to tell everyone about how she was able to get her breast cancer treated in a single procedure at the […]