From The Leader Archives

10 years ago May 4, 1994 The Addison Township woman accused of stabbing her husband and two children has been ordered to undergo psychiatric tests. A 10-person committee has taken steps toward creating a district library for Oxford and Addison Townships. Fourth and fifth graders in Oxford were asked to name the new elementary school […]

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter in response to the article about Project SHALOM. I have lived in the Lake Orion/Oxford area for the last 30+ years and I was one of the original youths that started this project way back when. I am so proud and happy to see that this is still […]

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Billy K., you are truly a man of keen wisdom and foresight, how you write with such common sense (thought long buried by most people). Keep it coming, Love it. On a separate note, you forgot to indicate that the ‘Axford Drain? and the ‘Osgood Drain? are overlapped. How, I don’t really know. […]

School Zone

by Dianne Zink More and more families are realizing that the child care or preschool they choose will have a profound impact on their child’s social, emotional and cognitive development. Oxford Child Care and Early Childhood Center realizes this and believes that time spent in our care before and after school becomes an extension of […]

Lakeville students raise $350 to save rainforest

A Lakeville Elementary class received a lesson in math and environmentalism last week as they collected and counted money to help save the rainforest. Teacher Melissa Douglas? first and second graders raised an impressive $147.40 over a one-week period to put toward adopting and preserving acres of endangered rainforest. Douglas? class raised enough to adopt […]

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I don’t know if anyone else has noticed lately, but Lake Orion certainly seems to have a thriving bicyclist population. Unfortunately, some of them haven’t figured out yet that they are supposed to ride on the white line.? Over the past month I’ve followed two going down the middle of the lane holding […]

Powerful or powerless?

When you think about yourself, do you see yourself as someone with power or someone who is powerless? There are so many things in our lives that we have little or no control over that we can be left feeling powerless. Probably, as you read this, you can name several of these in your own […]

Mail carriers collecting food May 8

The National Association of Letter Carriers, in cooperation with the Unites States Postal Service, is holding their annual ‘Stamp Out Hunger? drive this Saturday, May 8, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. ‘This is an annual event nationwide,? said Vicky Haist, an Oxford letter carrier and food coordinator for this area. ‘This is the fifth […]

Crossroads for Youth holds Barn Sale Fund-raiser

This Saturday, May 8, Crossroads for Youth will be holding the yard sale to end all yard sales. The Crossroads for Youth Barn Sale, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature a wide variety of items such as clothes (both donated and those left by students); sporting equipment (such as bats, snowboards and free […]

A Halloween SPOOK-tacular

All the little goblins and ghouls got to celebrate Halloween on Monday, Oct. 29 as Orion Township Parks and Recreation hosted Ms. Margee’s Halloween SPOOK-tacular at Giggle Beans. Besides having roly poly fun in the ball pit, on the train and with the other various play toys Giggle Beans offers, participants got to make a […]