A 62-year-old Oxford man is fortunate to be alive thanks to the community’s highly-trained fire department. A pleasant morning skate around the frozen Eden Lake ? located between Watersedge Ct. and Island Lake Dr. in the Waterstone development ? turned into a harrowing experience when Larry Jansen fell through the ice. Jansen, who’s lived here […]
Oxford dentist Dr. Paul Ferri is cautiously optimistic about a new drug called Kalydeco which he hopes will one day help his young son Tyler win his battle against Cystic Fibrosis (CF). ‘This could potentially be a breakthrough for Tyler,? he said. ‘It treats the specific mutation that my son has.? Tyler, who will turn […]
Electric vehicles are coming and Oxford Township wants to be prepared for their arrival. That’s why township officials are looking to incorporate language concerning electric vehicle charging stations into the municipality’s zoning ordinance. Last week, the township board voted unanimously to conduct a first reading Wednesday, March 14 of a new zoning ordinance section allowing […]
Oxford Township might be in the market for some new gateway signs along M-24, but first it needs to get some direction from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) as to what could be allowed and where. ‘Without talking to MDOT, we can’t go any farther,? said township Trustee Mike Spisz. The township’s planning commission […]
When you stop and think about it, children and government really do have a lot in common. Children are completely dependent on their parents for everything in life. Without them, they have nothing ? no money, no home, no clothing, no possessions, nothing. Government is completely dependent on taxpayers for everything it has. Without us, […]
A proposal to change the voting composition of the Oxford Area Cable Communications Commission was okayed last week by the Oxford Township Board. Officials voted 6-1 to approve a recommendation that the cable commission consist of two representatives for Oxford Township and one each for Addison Township, Oxford Village and the Village of Leonard. As […]
A 24-year-old gymnastics/tumbling coach is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female Jan. 25 in the parking lot of Great Lakes Elite (GLE) Gymnastics & Cheer (715 N. Lapeer Rd.) in Oxford Township. Jeffrey Edward LeFevre, of Troy, was arraigned Friday, Feb. 3 in Rochester Hills 52-3 District Court on felony charges of third-degree criminal […]
Everyone’s heard of a wild goose chase, but what about a wild turkey chase? That’s exactly what happened last week on Seymour Lake Rd. as employees from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR), along with some citizen volunteers, were unsuccessful in their attempts to capture a jake ? a juvenile male wild turkey ? […]
The grand story of America is made up of millions of smaller stories about self-made men who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps in true Horatio Alger fashion. One of those stories involves a man whose path to success included surviving electrocution by 4,600 volts. That man was former Oxford resident Norman Geisler (1906-80) […]
Who needs meteorologists with fancy degrees or high-priced Doppler radar systems when you’ve got a fuzzy llama who’s able to predict the weather? From his comfortable home at Windstar Farm (2065 W. Oakwood Rd.) in Oxford Township, Tutor, the famous weather-prognosticating llama, made his annual prediction on Feb. 2, otherwise known as Groundhog Day. ‘It […]