If you visit Dunn’s Tomb in Lakeville Cemetery, will you see a pair of ghosts? Will handprints appear on your car? Is the ghost of a Civil War soldier haunting Rob’s Place in downtown Oxford? If you stop on Cry Baby Bridge in Metamora at night and shut off your car’s engine, can you hear […]
They didn’t get a pay increase this year, but Oxford Township’s office employees and elected officials will receive a small one next year to help offset the cost of living. Last week, the township board voted 4-3 to increase the pay for office employees and the three full-time elected officials by 2.5 percent. ‘I would […]
She’s gone now, but she certainly won’t be forgotten by her family, friends and the community that rallied to make her last wish come true. Audrey Tenaglia, the 42-year-old Addison woman whose story touched people’s hearts, passed away Monday night after a battle with Stage 4 colon cancer that began in January. Tenaglia gained public […]
Countless Oxford High School students were involved in multiple auto crashes last week because they got distracted while behind the wheel. Fortunately, no one was killed or even injured because all these accidents took place in computer simulations. Representatives from the Auburn Hills-based Takata, Inc., a manufacturer of automotive safety equipment such as seat belts […]
Oxford’s firefighters will see a little extra cash in their paychecks next year as the township board last week approved 2.5 percent pay raises for them. ‘Unless you’ve actually put on the fire boots, the fire coat and the hat, and done what the firefighter has done, you wouldn’t actually know what the job is […]
You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don’t you call me cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store . . . Real Americans love being in debt. We’re a buy-now-worry-about-how-we’re-going-to-pay-for-it-later kind of a nation. Have been for a long […]
Zero progress was made last week regarding Oxford Township’s potential sale of its old office building and parking lot at 18 W. Burdick St. to the village. The pending real estate deal, stuck in legal and political limbo for the last year, will have to wait at least another month as township officials voted 5-2 […]
For a Michigan school, winning a Blue Ribbon is akin to a film actor receiving an Oscar or a newspaper journalist earning a Pulitzer Prize. ‘The Blue Ribbon award is only given to the finest schools in the State of Michigan,? said Leonard Elementary Principal Joyce Brasington. Three, possibly four, elementary schools in the Oxford […]
Unfortunately, patrons of businesses in downtown Oxford’s northwest quadrant will have to put up with a parking lot surfaced with aggregate until spring. ‘The weather beat us,? said Mark Young, chairman of the Oxford Downtown Development Authority. All work on the parking lot reconstruction project stopped Dec. 1 as the below-freezing temperatures of late are […]
Two relatively new Oxford businesses are the latest victims of Michigan’s economic troubles. Carla’s Fresh Fruit Market (1200 S. Lapeer Rd.) and CC’s Cyber Cafe (3 S. Washington St.) are preparing to close their doors. ‘The economy is not good,? said Mimmo D’Anna, co-owner of Carla’s, which just opened in May. ‘People are suffering. Consequently, […]