There’s something about Lake Michigan in mid-July. Every summer for the past 23 years, I have had the privilege of enjoying one of God’s great creations with family and friends, and like a kid anticipating a visit from Santa, I’m anxiously awaiting visit 24 this month. Flashback… I remember Mom and Dad’s brown Ford LTD […]
To some, Daniel Miller was ‘bigger than life? and ‘lived life to the fullest.? Dave Clark, a police officer for Grand Blanc Township, said when he started his career in law enforcement in Oxford 14 years ago, Mr. Miller was the main person he looked up to. ‘I first started there right out of the […]
When Kaycie McKenzie helped a Ghanaian woman give birth, it was nothing like what she witnessed as a nursing student at Western Michigan University. ‘It was so cool,? the 21-year-old Leonard resident said as she remembered that day. ‘The mother that was giving birth only had an IV and I cut the (umbilical) cord and […]
Two men were sent to the hospital last Tuesday afternoon after an accident on Lapeer Rd. and Oakwood Rd. A 67-year-old man from Loudon, Tennessee failed to yield as he turned west onto Oakwood Rd. His 2006 GMC Envoy crossed in front of a 42-year-old man from Metamora in his 1998 Chevy Silverado pick up […]
Michael Brophy, of R.E.P.T.I.L.E Inc., visited kids at the Oxford Public Library last Thursday as a part of the library’s Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales Summer Reading Program. Brophy brought some of his pet reptiles, like milk snakes, a leopard gecko, and corn snake and taught the kids, and parents, about their origins, characteristics and […]
This fall, parents will need to think twice before packing their kids? lunches at one local elementary school. In a letter to parents dated June 22, Clear Lake principal Sue Hannant announced the school enrolled a student with a ‘life threatening airborne allergy to peanuts and peanut by-products? for the 2006-07 school year and that […]
They bounce, they spin and, like their name says, they fly. They’re the Flying Aces Professional Frisbee Team, and they performed for children at the Addison Township Public Library last Wednesday. The Flying Aces was started by Brian Hayes in 1973 at Eastern Michigan University. The team now consists of eight members, which have performed […]
The weather may have been sweltering the day of the Leonard Strawberry Festival, but that didn’t stop five-year-old Cody Pearson from riding his new bike in the parade with pride. This wasn’t your regular run-of-the-mill bike, though. The Addison Township resident was one of 10 children to receive a bicycle built for the disabled through […]
The Michigan Eye Institute (MEI) of Oxford is celebrating their third birthday this year, and what better way to celebrate than to get a face-lift? The 1,500-sqaure-foot building at 53 S. Washington St. has been through some drastic changes, which include a new 1,000-square-foot seating and retail display area with beautiful maple-stained cherry hardwood floors. […]
If food could be framed, Lucas Wortelboer’s sushi creations would be hanging on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Art. The Oxford resident is so passionate about his art form of sushi-making that he decided to start his own traveling sushi bar called Futomaki’s Sushi. Futomaki is the name of a sushi roll and […]