Oxford residents involved in crash near Palace

A 45-year old female Oxford Township resident was involved in a three-vehicle accident on M-24 south of Harmon Rd. by the Palace of Auburn Hills on Saturday, March 5. According to Auburn Hills Lt. Tom Hardesty, around 4 p.m. a 62-year-old female from Rochester Hills, driving a 2011 Mercury Sable, and the female Oxford resident, […]

Village seeks $2M grant for sewer project

Ortonville- The lack of sewers in the village has become such a critical situation that the issue is going to the nation’s capitol. Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) and the Oakland County Drain Commissioner’s Office have requested $2 million in a State and Tribal Assistance Grant for the village as the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee considers Fiscal […]

Phones out in Oxford area

The Oxford area experienced a major communication breakdown Tuesday, March 8 as a large number of homes, businesses and schools lost their landline phone service and internet access. According to an AT&T worker, a main fiber-optic cable, located underground near the Oxford Mills shopping center, was accidentally cut by a contractor working around there. The […]

Independence Township

Independence Township NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Independence Township Planning Commission, Oakland County, Michigan, will hold a Public Hearing on: Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. At Independence Township Library, 6495 Clarkston Road, Clarkston, Michigan, 48346 to consider the following: FILE PC #2

Let’s read!

State Rep. Brad Jacobsen (R-Oxford) visited Clear Lake Elementary Monday and read to fourth-graders in teacher Melissa Peruski’s class as part of ‘March is Reading Month.? Jacobsen discussed how government and elections work, and even received some ideas for legislation from students Brady Wyniemko and Jodi Walker. Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.

Independence Township

Independence Township NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Independence Township Planning Commission, Oakland County, Michigan, will hold a Public Hearing on: Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. At Independence Township Library, 6495 Clarkston Road, Clarkston, Michigan, 48346 to consider the following: FILE PC #2

Year in review

Budget trouble was the big issue for 2006. Both the schools and Independence Township turned to voters to help with money problems. Schools statewide put Proposal 5 on the ballot, which would have made up for lost state funding. The township put up for a vote a bond and millage that would have built a […]

The Year in Review — 2006

For The Citizen, as for other newspapers, when New Year’s rolls around and current news events slow the year-in-review edition, a collection of old stories along with a handfull of photos comprise the first publication of the year. It’s a natural thing to do: people are usually reflective this time of year, wanting to take […]

Cityhood hearing draws meager crowd

Only three Oxford residents who don’t hold any elected office in the village or township spoke during last week’s public hearing regarding cityhood. ‘My motivation for doing this had nothing to do with money and everything to do with the Village of Oxford standing on its own two feet and being its own separate entity,? […]

Orion Township

NOTICE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF ORION PROPOSED ORDINANCE ADOPTION AMENDMENT TO ORD. 78, ZONING ORDINANCE ARTICLES II, V, VI, XXVII, XXIX AND XXX MICHIGAN ZONING ENABLING ACT The Charter Township of Orion Board of Trustees, at the regular meeting of Monday, August 6, 2007, to be held at 7:00 p.m., at the Orion Township Hall, 2525 […]