With only three returning seniors, the Girls Softball Team opened the season with a 5-0 loss to Romeo, but Varsity Coach Sharon Roeher was not disappointed because the girls played well offensively. ‘Inexperience reared it’s ugly head in Romeo,? Roeher said. ‘But we are stronger offensively than last year and we didn’t have any strike-outs.? […]
Currently in his second year of coaching track, Andrew McDonald is looking forward to working with the team’s 12 returning senior athletes (5 girls and 7 boys). ‘We’re still a pretty young team,? said McDonald ‘But we have 105 athletes on the team.? Last season, the girls team ranked 3-3 in the Flint Metro League […]
ROCHESTER HILLS ? On Tuesday, April 12, Bobbie Heath was charged in the 52-3 District Court with car-jacking, felonious assault, three counts of resisting arrest and one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Sergeant Pete Burkett, of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Addison Township Substation, said the car-jacking charge alone could land the 19-year-old […]
Jacqueline Rose Rowland, 20, claims to have been too busy to notice employee Jon McQuater, 20, allegedly spit on a sandwich before she handed it to Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputy Stephen Clark in June 2004, but the current Oxford Burger King manager will soon face a felony charge of food tampering in Oakland County Circuit […]
On March 26, two juveniles reported being chased by two men wearing ski masks. The kids were riding their bikes on a wooded trail off Drahner Road when they saw the two men and heard one of them say, ‘Dad you get the boy and I’ll get the girl.? The children said the men then […]
Seniors Christine Fortier and Danyelle Parris are two Oxford High School DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) Club members hoping for a spot at the June national competition in Anaheim, California. But their ambitious civic consciousness project is much more far-reaching than their west coast goal. For the past year, in a collaborative effort of […]
Quick thinking and fast action by Oxford babysitters Kathleen Roberts, 19 and Theresa Miner, 18, saved the lives of two children during a Lake Orion house fire Feb.5. Roberts said their actions were not heroic because they were just doing what they were supposed to do. ‘The firefighters are the heroes. We just took care […]
Despite being a dark and foggy night, the traditional Super Bowl Sunday chili cook-off fund-raiser Feb. 6 at the North Oakland Elks Club in Addison was a success ? and somebody knew it. Following the fund-raiser, thieves broke into the Elks Club on Pond Road sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. Cash was the only […]
In a 4-3 vote, the Addison Township Board reluctantly approved a motion to place an operating millage increase on the May 3 ballot. If approved, the proposed 0.3164-mill increase will bring the total operating millage up to 1.41 mill, the rate voters approved in 1978 and which has been subject to Headlee rollbacks ever since. […]
Addison Township will hold a public hearing 11 a.m. Saturday, March 26 regarding the proposed 2005-06 township budget. The budget will be presented for review, adjustments, discussion and/or action. The board will discuss budget items such as road improvement allocations, employee wages, and cellular tower revenue allocations. A special meeting of the board will be […]