Hopes for a fireworks display over Canterbury Village this summer went up in smoke when the Orion Township Board of Trustees denied a request from the Lake Orion Lions Club. The Lions, who are relocating their annual Jubilee Festival to Canterbury this year due to a large streetscape project planned for downtown Lake Orion, hoped […]
Don’t worry: fireworks planned for the Fourth of July weekend are scheduled to explode over Lake Orion as usual, with this year’s display blasting off at dusk Saturday, July 3. ‘The fireworks over Lake Orion are completely separate from the Jubilee,? said Tina Peterson, vice president of event marketing for the Lake Orion Fireworks Association. […]
Oxford High School seniors Jared Dymond and Katrese Moll were crowned the 2016 Winterfest King and Queen Friday night.
Growing up in a family with eight children, Oxford Village resident Bonnie Davis isn’t accustomed to being the ‘center of attention,? as she put it. The 75-year-old widow is feeling a little overwhelmed these days because so many folks are pitching in to help fix up the quaint little 1937 ranch home on Division St. […]
It’s not what you think. Really. It’s more about me (and others, I hope) listening with furrowed forehead on first and third Mondays, to things from the Orion Township Board of Trustees that just don’t make sense. Or not listening, as the case may be, when things show up on the consent agenda and there’s […]
Dear editor, In your April 14 article about Orion’s newest park on Squirrel Road, Supervisor Matt Gibb blamed recent vandalism on the fact that people haven’t been using the park. I couldn’t agree more, and a suggestion for increasing its usage occurred to me as I passed it en route to the Auburn Hills skate […]
Police officers, firefighters and dispatchers who work hard every single day safeguarding the lives and property of Oxford residents were honored for their efforts Sunday afternoon during a special awards ceremony hosted by Oxford American Legion Post 108. Following a delicious buffet dinner, certificates of appreciation were presented to members of the Oxford Fire Department, […]
Wind gusts of 50 miles per hour blew through the Oxford area Friday night and into Saturday, toppling trees, downing electrical lines and causing power outages. On Saturday morning, DTE Energy’s on-line outage map showed a total of 1,448 customers without power in Oxford’s 48371 and 48370 zip codes. The map showed 500 customers without […]
Dear editor, All I can say is (our volunteers) are amazing. . . . . . despite the cold weather, snowflakes, and gusty winds, over 90 volunteers (families, parents, students, and friends) arrived at Moose Tree on Saturday to help with our Earth Day Clean Up. Armed with rakes, shovels, clippers and a lot of […]
Dear editor, Thank you for running the article on the Bald Mountain Recreation Area Park Clean up held this weekend. We had over 30 volunteers show up on Saturday in shaky weather and clean up the park litter, roadside trash and construction material dumps in parking lots. We filled a donated dumpster and the park […]