In honor of Patriot’s Day ? the national holiday commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil ? volunteers of all ages spent four hours at the Oxford Meijer putting together care packages for U.S. troops serving all over the world. Joining those volunteers was U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joel Pollock (shown right), […]
Last Chance Daddy Daughter Dance The Oxford High School Varsity Dance Team is hosting its First Annual ‘Last Chance Daddy-Daughter Dance? from 6-9 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17. The dance is for OHS junior and senior girls and their fathers, stepfathers and grandfathers. It will take place at the high school. In addition to an […]
Julie Furr and Anthony Knakal are pleased to announce their recent engagement. The bride-to-be’s parents are Steve and Teri Furr. She is a graduate of Plymouth Canton High and the University of Michigan. Julie is currently employed as an engineer with Johnson Controls. The prospective groom’s parents are Mike and Diane Knakal. He is a […]
The Lake Orion Village Council granted permission to hold the annual Homecoming Parade on the downtown streets beginning at 5 p.m. The high school leadership council is again planning the parade, which this year includes a ‘jungle? theme. For more parade details, come back to next week’s Review.
By Casey Curtis Leader Staff Writer When Catherine Brakefield’s grandmother came to live with her and her husband, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. ‘But, it turned out to be the best experience of my life,? she said. Brakefield, a resident of Leonard, was already an established freelance writer for Michigan […]
The village council concurred with recommendations from Hubbell, Roth & Clark and the Downtown Development Authority, awarding a bid of the Meek’s Park Bridge to W.C.I. Contractors, Inc. The project was put on hold twice, once in Feb. 2007 when only one bid was received, and again in Nov. 2007 when there were concerns over […]
Heritage Spinning & Weaving will host their fourth annual Fiber Art Show from Sept. 27 through Oct. 2, with all proceeds supporting breast cancer research at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The deadline to submit entries in any of the show’s 11 categories is Thursday, Sept. 25 (cost is $5 per entry). The […]
By Casey Curtis Leader Staff Writer Oakland County Sheriffs were called to Oxford High School Wednesday, April 6 at 10:45 a.m. to investigate a posssible gun sighting in the student parking lot. Two witnesses, a father and his step-daughter, were driving southbound on N. Oxford road when the step-daughter observed two students standing in the […]
I will have to agree with Larry Stephens 100 percent on his letter to the editor that the reason downtown Oxford fails is because of the lack of interesting businesses. I have lived here for over 20 years and have only been in a few of the businesses in town. Mostly, the restaurants and Funky […]
There has been much written in the Oxford Leader recently regarding the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and a possible new streetscape design. First; my experience with DDA’s and streetscape programs. I owned three commercial buildings located in a DDA District for over 20/yrs. My buildings were as close, or closer, to a major street as […]