An 824-pound orange monster grown by a Berlin Township man won the 6th annual pumpkin weigh-off Friday evening at Louie’s Food & Spirits in Lakeville ? and that wasn’t even this newcomer’s largest one. ‘This is my second biggest,? said Steve Zuhlke, who’s winning pumpkin was set on the scale by a crane. At the […]
Lapeer East and Holly were the Oxford girls varsity basketball team’s latest victims. Oxford beat Lapeer East at home Thursday 38-25. Leading scorers for the Lady Cats were sophomores Joelle Harms with 14 points and Jessica Raisch with 9 points and 6 rebounds. The Lady Cats traveled to Holly Tuesday night and beat them 58-33. […]
Wait and see what Addison and and Orion do. That’s what Oxford Township officials voted to do last week in response to the North Oakland Transportation Authority’s (NOTA) request for an additional $15,556 to help put a 10th bus back on the road. ‘I am asking to try and keep a level of service that […]
Budgets equalling $9,243,575 and property tax rates totaling 9.9072 mills for the 2007 fiscal year were approved by the Oxford Township Board last week. For the 13th consecutive year, the township will levy 0.95 mill to support its General Fund Operating Budget, which was approved at $1,819,745. The operating millage is paid by all township […]
On Oct. 16, the area lost not only its county commissioner, but a devoted servant and friend of the community for more than 40 years. Oakland County Commissioner William R. Patterson (R-Oxford) died at the POH Medical Center in Pontiac after being hospitalized for a week. He was 75. Elected to office in November 1998, […]
A business arrangement that will financially benefit Oxford Village along with its residents and taxpayers was approved by council last week. Council voted unanimously Oct. 17 to lease the approximately 10,000-square-foot building, which sits on the property the village owns at 98 S. Glaspie St., to Oakland Mobile Marine for indoor winter storage of boats, […]
A familiar name and face will replace the late Bill Patterson in the race for the District #1 seat on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. Patterson’s son-in-law Bradford C. Jacobsen, a lifelong Oxford Township resident and vice president of Jacobsen’s Flowers in Lake Orion, was selected Monday by the Oakland County Republican Party to […]
It looks like the third time was the charm. After losing in two courts, the Village of Oxford won its first victory Friday in the Michigan Supreme Court regarding the northeast parking property owned by the Knauf family. The state Supreme Court reversed the February 2006 judgment of the Court of Appeals which upheld a […]
An abandoned home in the Oxford Woods subdivision that was literally making a next door neighbor sick was recently deemed to be an ‘unsafe structure? by the township. Legal action to have the vacant home at 1120 Keble Lane demolished will begin within 90 days of Oct. 12 unless the owner, the California-based Nations First […]
Plans to build permanent restroom facilities for Centennial Park in downtown’s southwest parking lot were nixed by the Oxford Village Council last week. Council had been saving the village’s federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds over the last four years for the project, but the costs proved to be much higher than the available […]