Your smoke alarm goes off in the middle of the night, and you can barely see through the thick cloud of smoke. Your adrenaline rushes as you try to come up with a plan for escape. Quickly, you drop to the floor and crawl to the window for fresh air and safety. Unfortunately, many house […]
After years doing business guided by the ethics and integrity of founder Colbert Coldwell, Coldwell Banker is celebrating their 100th birthday this month, and everyone’s invited. Oxford’s Coldwell Banker Shooltz will be throwing a huge birthday bash and customer appreciation picnic on Thursday, August 17, from 3-8 p.m. The public can enjoy free hot dogs, […]
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Oxford substation is seeking information on a man wanted for breaking and entering an automobile at the Oxford Hills Golf Course on August 6. The suspect was also using a stolen credit card at several different locations. He is described as a white male, late teens to early 20s, short light […]
What do you get when you add a mother, her daughter, a good story and pictures into a pot? You get a children’s book that was number three on the Northwest Lower Michigan’s best-seller list for hardcover fiction after being on bookstore shelves for only three weeks. Petoskey Stone Soup, written by former Lake Orion […]
The 2006-07 school year is just around the corner, but summer vacation may last longer for the younger students in Oxford’s Head Start program. Due to problems with the telephone server at the program’s office at Daniel Axford Elementary, recruitment for the free preschool has been very slow for next year. ‘Even if (parents) could […]
When Maureen Kiplinger signed up for ‘Walk Michigan? through Oxford Parks and Rec., she wasn’t doing it to win the trip to Mackinac Island, she was doing it to stay healthy. As luck would have it, the Oxford resident was chosen Friday as the winner of the summer program. Kiplinger and her husband, Daniel, and […]
When you think of the Olympics, usually the 100-meter dash or pole vaulting comes to mind. But what about the lawn mowers and weed whippers park groundskeepers use? Well, they had their moment to shine on July 27, when teams from Addison Oaks, Waterford Oaks, Groveland Oaks, and Independence Oaks gathered for their biannual Groundskeeper […]
Anyone who’s driven down Olive St. during the month of August has undoubtedly seen the towering corn grown by Ron Kraus. The stalks seem to go on as far as the eye can see, and are surrounded by tomato plants, heads of cabbage, various colors of peppers, onions and potatoes? just to name a few. […]
They’ve got food, they’ve got fun, they’ve even got a car show. And best of all’it’s free! The 4th Annual Oakwood Community Fair will take place Saturday, August 26, at Oakwood Community Church in Ortonville to show the community that ‘Oakwood Cares.? The day of fun will start at 11 a.m. and lasts until 5 […]
Congratulations to Oxford resident Robert Hewett for being named as one of the four July winners of the Oakland County Parks Annual Fishing Contest at Addison Oaks. The 15-year-old reeled in a 8.5-inch, 3-ounce, crappie fish over the 4th of July weekend at the park’s Buhl Lake. Hewett said he’s always liked fishing and has […]