When you’re a teenager, looks are everything. Teens often judge each other by appearance. Teens can be extremely self-conscious about their own appearance. That’s not an indictment of young people, it’s just reality. When you’re a teenager, you want to look normal and you want everyone around you to look normal ? whatever ‘normal? is. […]
The late 1950s and early 1960s were a time of unprecedented prosperity and positivity in America, especially in a place called Oxford. ‘It was just the best of times,? said Ronnie (Kintz) Grobbel, a 1962 graduate of Oxford High School and former cheerleader. ‘We didn’t have the pressures (students) do today. Our parents were working. […]
In this section of Oakland County, Methodists began meeting in people’s homes in 1834, but it wasn’t until 1837 that they formally organized in Oxford. It’s to this group that the modern Oxford United Methodist Church (OUMC) traces its lineage. However, it didn’t become a United Methodist Church until 1968. Prior to that, it was […]
The first victory of the 2012 football season was scored Saturday on Oxford’s famous blue turf. But it wasn’t the Wildcats who put one in the win column; it was Addison residents Craig Garrett and Tracy Kramm who tied the knot on the 50-yard line. The couple desired a truly unique wedding experience and that’s […]
Every bride knows that it’s tradition for her to have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue on her wedding day. Well, Addison Township resident Tracy Kramm has definitely got the ‘something blue? part covered ? and then some. She and her husband-to-be, Craig Garrett, will exchange their vows Saturday, Aug. 25 on […]
Some hair got singed by the flames, a few eyes watered from the thick black smoke, and the smell of melting nylon and polyester was not at all pleasant. But five members of Oxford Boy Scout Troop 108 didn’t let any of these things stop them from retiring our nation’s flag in the proper, respectful, […]
Smashed vehicles and shattered auto parts littered M-24 on Tuesday, Aug. 14 following a severe crash in front of the Sunoco gas station near Lincoln St. in Oxford Village. A Saturn (shown above, right) was headed north on M-24 in the left-lane when it swerved to avoid colliding with a Chrysler PT Cruiser that was […]
Traditionally, superhero modes of transportation include flying through the air, swinging from webs and driving state-of-the-art vehicles equipped with all sorts of cool crime-fighting gadgets. No one has ever seen a superhero ? not even Captain Planet ? pedaling a bicycle down the road . . . until now. With colorful capes flapping behind them […]
The best endings are happy ones that lick your face and wag their tail ? just ask Judy Vitucci. On Friday, Aug. 17, the Addison Township resident was joyfully reunited with her missing German Shepherd named Hogan. ‘Life couldn’t be better,? she said. ‘I’m telling you, I’m overwhelmed.? Hogan had been missing since Aug. 7, […]
Representatives from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department presented the Oxford Village Council with information last week regarding what it would receive and what it would cost if they decide to contract with the Council for police dispatch services. ‘We take a lot of pride in our dispatch service just as you do (with the village’s […]