Congratulations to the 42 gymnasts from Oxford’s Elite Gymnastics who traveled to Columbus, Ohio to compete in the Arnold Schwarzenegger Gymnastics Challenge the first weekend in March. Elite’s Level 4 girls team finished in 2nd place with a team score of 109.325. Team members are Meredith Adair, Taylor Barett, Sarah Blodgett, Peyton Colling, Khalia Dada, […]
Fifteen members of the Oxford Youth Wrestling Club participated in the Mid-Michigan Wrestling Association’s state finals held March 12 at Oxford High School. About 759 young grapplers from approximately 80 teams around the state participated in the finals. Of the 15 wrestlers from Oxford, six earned places in their age various groups and weight classes. […]
A round of applause erupted at last Tuesday’s board of education meeting after officials announced two of the CAD (Computer Aided Design) classes would be making a comeback for the 2006-07 school year. The classes were temporarily suspended at Oxford High School for the 2005-06 school year due to declining enrollment, but the outlook for […]
Congratulations to the 30 Oxford High School DECA students who became finalists at Michigan DECA’s 60th annual State Career Development Conference in Dearborn the weekend of March 10. Out of the 53 students from OHS who participated, 42 won medals at the state competition and 30 finalists qualified to compete at the 60th Annual High […]
Results for the latest set of Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) testing were released from the Michigan Department of Education March 9 and Oxford officials say they’re pleased. Despite several changes in testing this year, which included a consolidation of testing for grades 4-8 for the first time and the addition of testing for third-graders, […]
Many people can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on 9/11, the day Kennedy was shot and of course, when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. Barbara Youngs, now 76, shared her memory of the attack Monday with Barbara Johnston’s fourth-grade class at Oxford Elementary School. Johnston is Youngs? daughter. […]
Some people just can’t decorate a room to save their life. If that shade of green you painted on your living room wall just doesn’t match the pillows on your couch and if you’re constantly tripping over that poorly placed ottoman, you’re in luck. Oxford resident Jay Rogers started his own interior design business, JDR […]
Oxford’s Board of Education voted unanimously March 14 to allow students who live outside of the district to attend Oxford schools for the 2006-07 school year, but there are stipulations. Superintendent Virgina Brennan-Kyro suggested opening the schools on a ‘limited basis,? meaning only those districts which border the Oxford district, such as Lapeer or Romeo, […]
Ortonville-When Bob Service was asked to stand in as pastor at Oakwood Community Church in 1966, he admits he had second thoughts. The building was a former school house that was in bad shape, to say the least. The sinking floor was laden with pots and pans to catch water from the leaking roof, curtains […]
A man from Addison Township was arraigned March 24 on two felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against the 6-year-old son of his live-in girlfriend. David Anthony Torto, 53, formerly of New York, stands accused of allegedly forcing the 6-year-old boy to perform sexual acts on him while the boy’s mother was absent. Torto […]