It’s amazing what a little reorganization and a feather duster can do. Just ask Jerry Griffin, president of the Northeast Oakland Historical Society. Griffin and his merry band of preservers of the past spent the entire month of February rearranging, cleaning and painting the historical museum in downtown Oxford. ‘My goal was to get things […]
Oxford’s varsity boys baseball team continued its winning ways racking up a record of 5-1-1 last week. In a doubleheader against Rochester Adams Monday, the boys won the first game 8-5 and tied the second game 9-9. It was called due to darkness at the end of five innings. Russell Luxton got the win for […]
It was quite an ambitious undertaking but the Oxford Middle School Drama Club put together a smash hit with its Friday night performance of ‘Chateau La Roach.? The 2?-hour play, directed by Jack Gray, featured the zany antics of an odd hotel staff and their even odder guests as they faced an invasion of cockroaches […]
Tough week for the Oxford varsity girls softball team as it went 3-4. ‘Our defense is playing quite well and our pitching is doing quite well, it’s our offense that we’re lacking right now, but we’ve been working on that all week,? said Coach Sue Roeher. Over the weekend, the team played a tournament in […]
When poet Robert Frost penned his famous line ‘good fences make good neighbors,? it’s obvious he didn’t consult anyone living around Stony Lake in Oxford Twp. ‘Any fence there would really ruin everybody’s ability to have any kind of a happy existence there,? said Barry McWilliams, who lives on Brabb Road. Residents of the Brabb-Dewey […]
Oxford firefighters really earned their pay with two structure fires in three days. ‘Both constitute what we would call ‘good saves? on the houses, but very expensive damage,? explained Fire Chief Jack LeRoy. ‘It’s amazing ? a little fire can do a lot of damage.? An attached garage was reported on fire at 650 Mallard […]
It appears sewer and water charges in Oxford Township’s two manufactured/mobile home communities, Lake Villa and Parkhurst, will be increasing in a few months. Township officials are planning to increase the Residential Equivalent Unit (REU) assignment factor for manufactured/mobile homes from 0.60 to 0.85. However, because Lake Villa and Parkhurst own and maintain all the […]
Oxford High School’s Performing Arts Center is going to be overrun by giant cockroaches at 7:01 p.m. Friday, April 18. Don’t worry the school isn’t secretly building a nuclear reactor or conducting weird genetic experiments as part of the new curriculum. It’s just the talented members of the Oxford Middle School Drama Club putting on […]
When most people think of activities for senior citizens, it’s usually something old-fashioned and stereotypical, like bingo or checkers. But a growing number of seniors at Independence Village of Waterstone (and across the nation) are becoming more like their grandkids because they would rather play video games. Ever since General Manager Eugene Valentine began bringing […]
Much like fictional knight Don Quixote, Oxford Township Planning Commissioner George Black has windmills on his mind. But unlike Quixote, Black doesn’t want to fight them, he wants to regulate them with an ordinance governing everything from size to location to zoning. ‘They’re gonna show up,? he said during last week’s planning commission meeting. ‘I’m […]