Bell is ‘Coach of the Year’ for regional gridders

Lake Orion High School Varsity Football Head Coach Chris Bell was recently honored as Regional Coach of the Year, as the football team held its post-season awards. Senior Joel Malkasian, an All-State Dream Team wide receiver holding school records for career receptions, yards and touchdowns, has been selected to play in the Michigan High School […]

Hard work on ice continues for Dragons

BY NIKKI LONGUSKI Special to The Review The Lake Orion High School varsity hockey team played Jan. 11 against the Berkley Bears, in what looked like a near win, only to come up short. The Dragons lost an exciting 7-3 battle with the Bears, with all of the Dragons’ scoring coming in the first period. […]

OHS students suspected of arson, theft

Three Oxford High School students suspected of setting fire to a construction bus parked at the middle school and breaking into three school buses and stealing radio equipment, all on the night of Wednesday Jan. 15, are being investigated by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department. Following the alleged incidents, the three students fled across the […]

Oxford Schools surplus to offset state cuts

Oxford Area Community Schools is preparing to lose around $223,000 from this year’s budget due to cuts at the state level, but the good news is a $230,000 surplus will offset the effects ? for now. Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced late last week that a shortfall of $127 million in the state school aid budget […]

NOTA gets first new minibus

A new vehicle joined the North Oakland Transportation Authority’s (NOTA) fleet of five vans last Wednesday and it’s unlike anything the organization currently has on the road. A 21-foot Community Transit Bus featuring 11 passenger seats, two wheelchair lock-downs and an electronic wheelchair lift is the new “flagship of the NOTA fleet,” according to authority […]

Sheriff to investigate COPS grant

By C.J. Carnacchio Leader Editor The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department has agreed to investigate what happened to the $136,677 in federal COPS grants that the U.S. Department of Justice claims was misspent by the now-defunct Oxford Police Department under the former Oxford Emergency Safety Authority. In a Jan. 16 letter to Sheriff’s Capt. Michael McCabe, […]

From The Oxford Leader

Tuesday, January 14 Two Oxford juveniles were taken into custody after a traffic stop on N. Washington St. led a police officer to discovering marijuana in their possession. The officer had stopped the youths for speeding when he noticed an odd smell coming from the vehicle. The two confessed to smoking marijuana and turned over […]

Father Phalen to retire in June

When Father John Leo Phalen was growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, he wanted to be either a priest doing missionary work in the jungle or a “Bring’Em Back Alive Frank Buck-type,” who’s adventures capturing wild jungle animals were made famous in books, movies and film shorts. “I always wanted something adventurous in life,” […]

Top cop’s kitty finds his way home

So, why did the kitty-cat dare to cross M-24? Well, if it was Oxford Village Police Chief Mike Neymanowski’s feline, he was probably just trying to get back home ? and didn’t remember that the family had moved just a few days before. Over the December holidays, Chief Neymanowski and his family moved from their […]

Dunn gets job no one wants — even him

“If you promise not to throw things at me, I might do it for a year.” Those were the words of Oxford Township Supervisor Bill Dunn last Wednesday before he was elected to serve as chairman of the Oxford Public Fire and EMS Commission (OPFEC) for 2003. Dunn, who reluctantly accepted the post, was finally […]