All the flower planting, weed pulling, vigilant maintenance, meticulous attention to detail and old-fashioned hard work finally paid off for a select group of property owners. For the 11th consecutive year, the Oxford Village Beautification Commission Tuesday night held its “Beautification Awards Program.” Six residential and three commercial properties were honored for their individual aesthetic […]
Tuesday, September 30 A 21-year-old Thomas Rd. man was arrested for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after being stopped for having tinting windows on the front driver and passenger windows. A suspicious circumstance at the Dew Drop Inn turned out to be retail fraud after the store’s owner reported three unknown females who possibly […]
A two-vehicle smash-up Monday evening in front of the Sunoco gas station on S. Washington St. (M-24) left two young drivers injured. According to the Oxford Village Police, the accident occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m. when a 16-year-old Davison woman exited the Sunoco station in her 1990 Buick. The Davison woman was attempting to turn […]
The Addison Township fire department is holding an open house and free pancake breakfast on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 8 a.m. – noon. Plans for the new fire station in the village of Leonard will be on display as well as one of the new North Oakland Mutual Aid Association HAZMAT trucks. There will also […]
Organizers of a reunion for the Oxford High School Class of 1983 are looking for former classmates. Please send your name and address, and those of the grads you know, to either Shelley Moore Collins at mooreclassof83@comcast.net or contact Jill Johnson Finley at 810-667-7456 or jmfinley@pghmail.com. If you would like more information or to see […]
The Northeast Oakland Historical Society’s annual fall meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Oxford Public Library. Guest speaker for the evening will be Sandy Dennis on “Beginning Your Family Genealogy.” The meeting is open to the public and new members are welcome. For more information, please call 248-628-1140.
A Salad Luncheon will be held at the Holy Cross Lutheran, located at 136 S. Washington St., on Friday, Oct. 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cost is $6 per person. Please call 248-628-2011 for more information.
A “Big Auction” fundraiser takes place on Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m. at Kalloway’s Restaurant on Lapeer Road north of Oxford to benefit Saint Augustine’s House. The goal of the auction is to raise funds needed to install a tile floor in the new chapel. Antiques, artwork, art prints, glassware and vases, sports memorabilia, rounds of […]
As little kids, many of us owned security blankets. Sometimes they were old family hand-me-downs, faded and worn by time, use and love. Sometimes they were brand new, but usually ended up looking old because they got dragged everywhere from the sandbox to the supermarket. To adults, your security blanket was probably seen as just […]
Oxford Leader Editor C.J. Carnacchio was the recipient of three awards in the Michigan Press Association’s 2003 “Better Newspaper Contest.” The 27-year-old Oxford resident won first place in the “Local Columnist” category for his weekly column “My Way.” Of Carnacchio’s columns, the judges remarked, “Excellent writer. So easy to read. Leaves you wanting more. Way […]