The sound of thundering drums and brass horns echoed through the Performing Arts Center Monday evening as the Oxford High School Marching Band gave its final show of the season and ended things on a high note. Although the 125-member band’s competitive record was nothing to write home about this season, Band Director Jim Gibbons […]
As the director of Upland Hills School in Addison Township, Phil Moore’s spent most of his life educating children and encouraging them to not only live their lives in tune with nature, but help find solutions to the planet’s most-pressing environmental problems. To honor his efforts, the 61-year-old Oxford resident recently received the Julian Smith […]
I think the state laws governing Schools of Choice and property taxes need to be tweaked a bit. Right now, if parents decide to enroll their child in a school district other than the one in which they live, they don’t have to pay any local taxes to the district that teaches their kid. Granted, […]
Drive by Tom’s Hardware and you’ll notice mountains of salt bags piled around the front and sides of the 558 S. Lapeer Rd. building. For those who dread the idea that yet another long, cold winter is just around the corner, it’s a thoroughly depressing sight. But for people who earn a living off Michigan’s […]
Thousands of DVDs, which the federal government asserts are counterfeit, were seized Friday, Oct. 16 at PC Treasures, Inc. in Oxford Township when agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a search warrant at the company’s 1795 N. Lapeer Rd. headquarters and warehouse. But the owners of the local company that specializes in […]
It sounds like the setting for a classic scary movie. The scene opens with the camera traveling down a long and winding dirt road somewhere out in the country. On one side of the road, the audience sees an old cemetery filled with local history and legends. Across from it sits an unassuming little house […]
When it comes to receiving Obama bucks from Washington D.C., Oxford Township is definitely on a roll. First, the municipality was awarded up to $1.5 million in federal stimulus monies to pave the gravel portion of Ray Rd., west of N. Oxford Rd., next spring. Then, Uncle Sam gave the township $447,968 to construct a […]
A spaghetti dinner fund-raiser to help the Oxford girl who crashed into the side of a truck back in late August is being held from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the Oxford Hills Golf and Country Club. Mariah Mapes, a sixth-grader at Oxford Middle School, was riding her bicycle by Choo Choo’s Chocolate in […]
When most people carve a pumpkin, they end up with a traditional jack-o-lantern consisting of three triangles and a big mouth. When John Bradshaw carves a pumpkin, the end result is a work of art that delights the eyes and stirs the imagination. Customers who visit Harvest Time Farm Market in Oxford between now and […]
Imagine having a hot, nutritious meal delivered fresh to your door every day, even holidays. Oxford senior citizens don’t have to imagine it because that service is already available to them through their local Meals on Wheels program. Every week, Monday through Friday, a truck from the Rochester-based Older Persons Commission (OPC) center delivers a […]