Some might take for granted how important driving a school bus really is. They greet your children every day. The lives of your children are in their hands and they do it all with 50 plus students facing their backs. Some parents can’t even handle a trip to the store with two children in the […]
Anybody who’s driven down Lakeville Rd. and passed Addison Township’s Fire Station 2 knows it’s time for a change. Just last August, the new 12,000 square foot Fire Station 1 near Leonard was built and has become an eye-pleasing site along Forest Road. Fire Station 2, on the other hand, needs a little work. ‘It’s […]
Blues fans young and old battled the heat and enjoyed the beat of the highly anticipated Hot Blues and BBQ Festival last Saturday behind the Oxford municipal complex. Approximately 1,400 people from near and far spent the morning and evening engulfed in the music of acts like Lady Sunshine and the X Band, blues pioneer, […]
So far this season, we have had over 12 days of 90-plus degree weather. This week, the local weather folks say we’ll get more 90-degree heat. With the hot weather upon us, we humans flock to the air-conditioners, beaches and swimming pools to cool off. But, let’s not forget we’re not the only ones suffering […]
It’s summer time, and for residents of Leonard and surrounding communities, that can mean only one thing–it’s time for the 53 Annual Strawberry Festival. All the fun begins with a Friday night kick-off dinner on July 15 catered by Isola’s Pizzaria. Chicken, ribs, corn on the cob, Italian sandwiches, potato salad and pizza by the […]
A serious car accident on Lapeer and Drahner at 7:30 a.m. left a 42-year-old Oxford woman in serious but stable condition. The crash had traffic at the intersection snarled during morning rush-hour traffic, Wednesday, June 29. According to Oakland County Sheriff’s reports, the woman was traveling northbound on Lapeer in her 1995 Ford Taurus. She […]
When Tom Spencer was appointed to his new position as the local pastor at Lakeville United Methodist Church, it felt like a homecoming to him and for his wife Kim. The Spencers, who moved to Lakeville from Rose City just last Saturday, both grew up in Oakland County — Tom in Lake Orion, and Kim […]
What do you get when you throw a 24-year-old, opinionated, straight male from Oxford with a 38-year-old, gay male marketing executive from San Francisco? You get Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary television series, 30 Days. Last year, Spurlock chronicled his own 30 days of eating nothing but McDonald’s for his film Supersize Me. The Manhattan resident […]
Congratulations to Oxford High School graduate Sean McDonald for his outstanding achievements in technology from the Oakland Technical Campus (Otech) on May 20. McDonald, 17, received the Dean’s Award for having all A’s and outstanding attendance from the Otech morning session. He was nominated by teachers for this award and also received a plaque and […]
Michelle Phelan, 28, of Northbranch (formerly of Oxford) and her sister Amanda Strang, 11, (still of Oxford), got their hair snipped at the Roots salon for the Locks of Love cancer organization. Their hair, a combined 24 inches, will be donated towards Rachel Sigmund, a young girl with allopecia. ‘Why just sweep it up into […]