All night? All right!
Following the commencement ceremony Sunday, the Class of 2012 celebrated during the annual Senior All Night Party at Oxford High School. They gambled, played wacky games and rode a mechanical bull.
Who am I?
Oxford Elementary fifth-graders dressed up as prominent personalities and posed as living wax statues as part of a lesson on how people respond to conflict in different ways. The students had to choose one person from history, or even present day, who has dealt with conflict. They had to explain that person’s perspective, the other […]
Fun day!
Leonard Elementary student enjoyed their annual Field Day last week.
You gotta have art ? but I don’t have to pay for it
After all these years, I still remember the popular 1980s television commercial for the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), which contained the catchy song, ‘You’ve Gotta Have Art!? As a little kid, I found it extremely entertaining and even looked forward to it whenever it aired in between reruns of MASH and Happy Days. But […]
Kingsbury lowers tuition to increase enrollment
Kingsbury Country Day School in Addison Township is reducing its tuition by a significant amount in the hopes of attracting new students to its 125-acre campus at 5000 Hosner Rd. ‘We want to grow our enrollment and grow our alumni data base,? said Kingsbury Headmaster Tom Mecsey. ‘We want to grow our marketing strategies and […]
Village to meet with state police over missing funds
Oxford Village officials scheduled a meeting for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12 with the Michigan State Police (MSP) to determine what, if anything, the agency is doing or plans to do about the municipality’s missing funds. ‘There’s still an open investigation to the best of my knowledge and our knowledge because (we have) not been […]
Officials debate DDA’s large debt to village
‘Sticker shock.? That was the way Oxford Village Councilman Dave Bailey described the $165,176 bill that the Downtown Development Authority received from the village for a variety of services and debts paid for by the municipality on the DDA’s behalf since 2010. ‘It was shocking when I first saw that number,? he said. ‘I had […]
Bakers buy bears to help comfort kids
A gang of Teddy Bears took over the Sweet & Savory Bake Shop in downtown Oxford last week. But don’t worry, this crew of 80 brown and white bears wasn’t there to cause trouble. They were just passing through. The bears were being donated to the Oxford Fire and Village Police departments so they can […]
Marijuana growing operation busted in Addison
They were searching for one thing and ended up finding something much bigger. Two 45-year-old Addison Township men were taken into custody after a marijuana growing operation was discovered May 24 by Oakland and Macomb county sheriff’s officers in the basement of a house in the 1800 block of Moffat. As a result of this […]
Council holds the line on village tax rate
Good news for Oxford Village residents ? they will not face a millage increase when they receive their property tax bills this summer. Last week, council voted 4-0 to keep the rate at 10.62 mills, which equals $10.62 for every $1,000 of a property’s taxable value. The vote was in conjunction with council’s approval of […]