When considering new playground equipment for Addison Township’s Labodie Park, park and recreation committee members decided they needed to go back to the basics. “We weren’t interested in eyeball things that just looked pretty,” said committee member Joe Schnur, “we wanted things the kids can do.” The committee was charged by the Addison Township board […]
Oxford Township’s first water treatment facility could be constructed by the end of 2004. Township officials last week voted unanimously to spend up to $61,000 for design proposals for a treatment facility to be located at the Oxford Woods subdivision underground well field. The Oxford Woods well is the largest of the three underground well […]
Six Oxford lakes recently experienced lower water levels due to a failure of the dam that regulates them. Three weeks ago the water levels of Cedar, Clear, Long, Squaw, Michelson and Tan lakes decreased by approximately 8 inches, according to a July 8 letter from Steven Korth, assistant chief engineer for the Oakland County Drain […]
When most people attend Concerts in Centennial Park, they enjoy the music, engage in some friendly conversation and eat some ribs or ice cream. Not Sue McGuinnis and Andrea Parker. Last week the two Oxford residents weeded the village park’s overgrown flower garden during the concert. They didn’t get paid to do it. They weren’t […]
“Ultimately, the decision of where Mill St. goes is in the hands of voters. Without an affirmative vote, the plan won’t happen.” – Oxford Village President Steve Allen “You’re giving people the right to vote on something that really isn’t affecting them. . .It affects us. It affects us economically. It affects us personally.” – […]
After helping to terminate Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime in Iraq, U.S. Army Specialist Chad Acheson got to meet the original Terminator – Arnold Schwarzenegger! Log on to www.uso.com to see this photo of Schwarzenegger in Kuwait posing Acheson, a member of the Army’s 4th Infantry, Company C, and his fellow soldiers. The son of Oxford […]
A tree limb making contact with a ‘primary power line? caused 300 Oxford DTE customers to lose electricity at 8:17 p.m. Monday. According to DTE spokesman Scott Simons, the tree limb’s contact with the line caused a ‘fuse to blow,? which resulted in the power outage. Simons said power was restored to all customers by […]
Tuesday, July 8 An E. Burdick St. resident called in a noise complaint because a neighbor was holding a loud party. Family trouble on Metamora Rd. Fire personnel responded to a call for construction debris on fire at the end of a cul-de-sac new Bayshore Dr. Building materials were found set aflame on Pineridge. Wednesday, […]
No one was injured in an accident that blocked traffic late Sunday morning at the intersection of M-24 and Ray Rd. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s report, A 60-year-old Northville woman, driving a gold 1999 Chevy, ran a red light while traveling northbound M-24. She was struck by a 19-year-old Oxford woman driving a […]
It’s been only seven months since Oxford resident Ed Triest retired after 45 years and sold his Sunoco station back to Sunoco, Inc., yet the business is once again for sale. A July 11 press release from the National Real Estate Clearinghouse (NRC) listed the 135 S. Washington St. establishment as one of 80 retail […]