When Mick Steiner and his wife Mary moved to Oxford last summer, he sensed there was a problem in their neighborhood. It wasn’t the neighbors, they were friendly. The houses were beautiful and well kept. Something just didn’t smell right. It just so happened the problem was that four days out of the week there […]
Mike and Darlene Hendrix are not just partners in marriage, they’re partners in their occupation as well. The Hendrix’s, who’ve been married 40 years and lived in Oxford since 1971, have been sales associates for Coldwell Banker Shooltz Realty in Oxford for the past decade. Mike worked for GM for 34 years and said he […]
On Thursday, June 30, the Veteran’s Memorial Statue in Centennial Park was dedicated by the Oxford American Legion. Hundreds of veterans old and young gathered to honor the 44 men from Oxford who were killed in action and are named on the statue. James Parkhurst, of the American Legion Post 108 read about the various […]
After New Year’s Eve, most vow to loose weight, quit smoking or change their outlook on life. Oxford resident Jeff Weaver, on the other hand, made it his goal to qualify for the Ironman Florida Triathalon this year. If only all New Year’s resolutions went as well as his. Just last month, twenty-eight-year-old Weaver took […]
After working 30 years for the Village of Oxford, Rose Bejma will be retiring from her postition as clerk on July 15. Bejma was born in Detroit and graduated from Pershing High School in 1967 and began working at a tool-and-dye shop. Soon after, Bejma met her husband Michael and got married in 1970, moving […]
Congratulations to Oxford teen Madeline ‘Maddy? Thompson for winning the $1,000 Justin A. Schwartz Memorial Scholarship. The thirteen-year-old daughter of Gary and Sally Thompson is an eighth-grader at Kingsbury School and won the scholarship on June 10. The Schwartz scholarship is given annually to a graduating Kingsbury student who strives toward high academic achievement, works […]
When eight-year-old Hunter Strunk was three months old, he was diagnosed with lissencephaly, or softening of the brain. This very rare disease has approximately 500 known cases in the world and left 70-pound Hunter virtually immobile and uncommunicative; leaving his mother, Pam Strunk, with a huge challenge. Strunk, an Addison Township resident, has been her […]
Forget what you’ve heard about this year’s summer blockbusters, the film Love & Plutonium will have Oxford residents cheering for the good guys ? or girls rather ? on Saturday, August 6. Of course, the film in no way measures up to the epic battle between good and evil in Star Wars, but this sci-fi […]
A 2-year-old girl was found sitting on Rochester Rd.and Romeo Rd. in the pouring rain by three individuals driving by on July 16 at about 9:30 a.m. According to the police report, the girl was unresponsive and was unable to tell the people where she lived. She was wearing pink and white pajamas and had […]
When someone mentions they are building a straw bale house, one might picture the straw house from the three little pigs? story. Not so. This house can’t be blown down. Straw bale homes are composed of a thatched roof, straw bale walls covered with earthen plaster and use a fieldstone foundation. They are solid walls […]