What exactly is an International Baccalaureate (IB) Exhibition? Five fifth-graders from Oxford Elementary gave the Oxford Leader some insight. ‘Exhibition is a project that all the fifth graders do at the end of their Primary Years Program (K-5) for the International Baccalaureate program in our school,? said student Maddie Cutler. ‘You get in a group […]
Fifty-two athletes from Oxford High School’s winter sports program were recognized at the April 10 board of education meeting for being ‘Scholar Athletes? named to the All-Oakland Activities Association Academic Team. A student becomes a scholar athlete by attaining a cumulative GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.5 or higher as well as earning a varsity […]
Runners and walkers get your athletic shoes on and get ready for the Addison Township Library’s first-ever ‘Born to Read 5K and Speed Reader’s Fun Run? on May 18 at the Addison Oaks County Park. The library is hosting the event along with the Friends of the Library. The early registration cost to race, which […]
The more I hear about the ‘changing of education,? the more I worry about the upcoming generations. In the April 10 edition of the Oxford Leader, I wrote a story about how traditional letter grades are going to be eliminated at all Oxford elementary schools and a ‘standards based? system will be the new mechanism […]
Are you at least 18 years old and want to make a little extra cash on the side while doing something meaningful? Then apply today to join the Addison Township Fire Department Team. ‘We need some paid-on-call firefighters/EMTs to . . . be part of a good fire department and a member of something they […]
Tom Burnside, master of Mason Brotherhood Lodge 561, presented a $500 check to Amber Golden’s Special Education Classroom at Oxford Middle School. ‘I have a check from our Brotherhood Lodge and all Masons in Michigan for the special needs children,? Burnside said. ‘Half of the money is from our (local) lodge and half from the […]
Twenty-four hours before the new ‘Right to Work? law was set to go into action, the Oxford Board of Education approved the new Oxford Education Association (OEA) contract. The teachers? union contract is a three-year agreement ending in 2016 and it still includes union dues. The ‘Right to Work? law, known as Public Act 349, […]
After reading about the need for volunteers to take over Celebrate Oxford’s Kids Town in the Oxford Leader, local resident Meg Buckley decided to take on the challenge. ‘You can’t have family day without anything for the kids. If the DDA (Downtown Development Authority) wasn’t going to run Kids Town, what were the kids supposed […]
ader Staff Writer When most people think of letter grades in school A, B, C, D, E and F typically come to mind, but what about M, P and I? Those are the new letter grades that will be given as a part of the new ‘standard based report cards,? set to take effect in […]
Oxford Village police officers were dispatched to 975 Glaspie St. on April 4 after a receiving a report of a man sitting in a parked truck who was unresponsive and possibly not breathing. According to Oxford Village Police Chief Michael Neymanowski, when officers got there and crawled in the back cab of the freightliner truck, […]