The Rotary Club of Oxford yesterday presented a $240 check to the Northeast Oakland Advisory Committee (NOAC) to help the local charity cover its operating expenses. NOAC is part of the Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency based in Pontiac. On the second Wednesday of each month at the Community Education Resource Center (CERC) in Lake […]
Alyssa McTaggart is trying to help feed starving children in the Third World, but she can’t do it alone. That’s why the Oxford High School freshman is asking friends, family, neighbors, businesses and strangers in the Oxford area to contribute money to her church youth group’s 30-Hour Famine Project April 15-16. Beginning at 6 p.m. […]
A new face joined the James Lumber Co. family last week as Ron Veenhuis took over as store manager of the Oxford location. The Swartz Creek resident started in the lumber business in 1976 with Wolohan Lumber while attending the University of Michigan-Flint. He worked at and managed Wolohan stores in both Michigan and Indiana […]
Members of the Sunshine Generation ? a local performing group for children ages 3 to 12 ? performed last week for residents at Independence Village in Waterstone. The talented youngsters sang and danced their way into the senior citizens? hearts during the 30-minute show. The kids brought the seniors a ray of warm spring sunshine […]
The Clear Lake Elementary Parent Teacher Organization held a fun family dance and silent auction Friday night. The auction raised a little more than $3,000 for the PTO.
Eye-patches, buccaneers and the dreaded skull and crossbones were everywhere Saturday as Oxford Elementary and Daniel Axford hosted their annual Spring Fair. This year’s theme was ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.?
Demolition began last week on a 28,000-square-foot Oxford landmark as the vacant Mike’s All World Market building (formerly Foodtown from 1970 to 1999) at the northeast corner of M-24 and Drahner Road was reduced to rumble to make way for construction of the ‘Oxford Towne Center.? The coming commercial development will include an 11,180-square-foot Rite-Aid […]
It was front-page news in The Oxford Leader on April 1, 1955 when Detroiter Eugene Mallia married Leonard native Marlene Schlusler. ‘Mallia-Schlusler Vows Spoken at Leonard Church? read the headline above a large black-and-white photo of the happy couple (shown right). Five decades later the prominent Leonard couple is still making front-page headlines as they […]
Who would have guessed back when she was part of the Super Singers at Clear Lake Elementary in the mid-1980s, Kelly Warnke-Senger would one day perform at the Detroit Opera House? The lifelong Oxford resident will be singing soprano as a chorus member in the May world premiere of ‘Margaret Garner,? a new American opera […]
A familiar face is rejoining the Oxford Village Council at the beginning of April, but only temporarily. At its March 8 meeting, council appointed village resident Tom Benner to fill Councilman Matt Weber’s seat after his resignation becomes effective Thursday, March 31. Benner previously served on council from 1995 until 1998, when he lost his […]