One of the quickest ways to send government officials, union employees and unrepentant liberals into a full-blown, mouth-foaming frenzy of hysterical rage is to mention the P-word. Of course, the word I’m referring to is privatization. I’ve always been a staunch proponent of privatizing government services whenever possible. If a private company can provide the […]
Hats off to Oxford Community Schools for being one of 14 Oakland County school districts to post its check registers on-line for all to see and inspect. The move was prompted by a request from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a respected free market think tank based in Midland, as part of its increasingly […]
The world is a much bigger and more complicated place than it used to be. People’s lives are busier than ever as the future grows more uncertain on a daily basis. But despite it all, one thing remains constant ? small towns never forget their heroes. Thank goodness.
Oh, the times they are a-changin?. For the first time in Oxford Bank’s 125-year history, a woman will serve as chairman of the board. Last week, the bank’s board of directors voted to appoint 55-year-old Elba Township resident Karen Mersino as its chair. Mersino, who’s served on the board since 1999, will also chair the […]
Wearing gloves and armed with trash bags, volunteers combed the roads of Oxford Township Saturday as part of the community’s annual cleanup event. Volunteers collected all sorts of garbage from empty beverage bottles and plastic bags along Seymour Lake Road to the 13 or so old tires this reporter saw pulled from one spot along […]
‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.? ? Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan I find it amusing that our local government leaders gather twice a month at the school district’s central office to scarf down a free breakfast and, among other things, attempt to […]
For the seventh year in a row, members of Oxford Boy Scout Troop 108 conducted a spring cleanup at St. Augustine’s House, the Lutheran monastery located on E. Drahner Rd. in Addison Township. The boys trimmed branches and picked up brush around the monastery’s chapel and guest house, then raked the two-mile nature trail running […]
An Italian physicist named Salvino D’Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eyeglasses around 1284. But it’s former Oxford resident John Bovee who will be credited with inventing a device that makes wearing glasses more comfortable and convenient. On April 28, Bovee, who attended OHS in the 1940s, was granted a patent from the […]
Oxford High School math teacher Matthew Race resigned May 8 after it was discovered that he, according to district officials, was aware of an unacceptable technological aid used by some of his students during their Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics exam last year and almost this year. ‘Matt decided to resign and it was, I would […]
It appears the Oxford Village Council is preparing to privatize the operation of its brand new $2.5 million water treatment plant on S. Glaspie St. in an effort to save its 1,389 water customers some money now and in the future. ‘It saves this village a considerable amount of money in fringe benefits and long-term […]