He’s the first Oxford High student to be selected by them for this honor. Oxford Wildcat Jimmy Walker won the studentathlete of the month award from the Flint Kiwanis Club. Oxford brothers Jason and John Morgan are playing football for Kalamazoo College.
The Wildcats extended their undefeated record to 5-0 with a 42-0 win over LakeVille. Steve Secatch is Oxford Village’s new ordinance enforcer. The Oxford Emergency Safety Authority has begun a search for a new fire chief. Various properties adjacent to Metamora Golf and Country Club are being auctioned according to the Wall Street Journal. There is a move in Michigan to have the gambling laws strictly enforced, with bingo in particular being targeted. Roger Oberg, local vocational agriculture instructor, has been elected president of the Michigan Association of Teachers of Vocational Agriculture.Įggleston’s Department Store, in Oxford, is having its annual Back-to-School Fall Yard Goods and White Sale. Willis Hable will join Don and Harry Middleton, who has been with him for six years. State Representative race: Democrat Alice Tomboulain, Oakland Township, will face James Conlen, Oxford Township, in the fall.ĭemolition of the 110-year-old Oxford Methodist Church on East Burdick Street should begin August 14.ĭoris and Grey Miller, former Oxford residents, are now managing Walker’s Dining Room in Mio.ĭon Awrey’s Barber Shop has been remodeled and enlarged to include a third chair. Treasurer Donald Hickmott won over challenger Edna Zerwick.
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But, voters voted against letting the Board buy property without a popular vote.Īddison Township’s Primary contested election results: Dorothy Barnes (D) will face Thomas Patch (R) in November for a trustee seat. Township voters approved a proposal establishing an elected parks and recreation commission. Trustee Stephen Kaylor defeated Roy Madsen. Oxford’s Primary contested election results: Supervisor contest, incumbent Robert Clack out polled Barbara Garypie. Twice the North Area Citizens Conference has filed recall papers on Addison Township supervisor Bob Koski, with the Oakland County Election Commission, and twice the language has been rejected.Ī count of showy ladies slipper orchids by the Michigan Nature Association at the Lakeville Swamp Nature Sanctuary has shown their number is dwindling. Topics of Conversation is her first novel.Oxford Township supervisor Cliff Popkey and trustee Shirley Clancy drafted, and the board approved, a 90-day moratorium on rezoning requests in central Oxford. MP: It’s very bad form to say mine, but-what the heck: Adam Driver, if you’re reading this, call me! I have a part for you! It’ll also make you want to shoot Jackson Pollock into the moon.īM: Book you wish would be adapted for a film/tv show? It’ll make you-it’s making me-want to read individual biographies of each painter. MP: Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women, a group biography of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. I find that pickle dish moving! So sue me! MP: I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite, but I do want to put in a good word for Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, which gets a lot of hate on the internet these days (to be fair to the internet, I’ve never met anyone in real life either who likes it as much as I do). I’ve said too much.īM: Favorite book you were assigned in high school? MP: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient specifically the Katharine section. Hot tip: don’t read Henry James on an e-reader it makes the sentences longer somehow.īM: What’s a book with a really great sex scene? But first I have to re-read Portrait of a Lady, which I did not exactly get the first time around.
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Written by Berryman’s shockingly well-adjusted first wife-after they divorced, she became a psychotherapist-it’s also miraculously free of rancor.īM: Classic book on your To Be Read pile? John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, and others in their circle, just before everyone started drinking too much and everything went to hell. MP: Poets in Their Youth, by Eileen Simpson. It’s YA, but if you’re interested in the female gaze, circa now, trust me-whether or not you think of yourself as a YA reader, this one’s for you. I love each of Zan’s three books (in addition to Look, she’s the author of A Song to Take the World Apart and Grace and the Fever) absolutely unreservedly, but Look is really special: a retelling of Bluebeard set in the world of LA private schools. MP: Zan Romanoff, a brilliant writer who also happens to be my best friend, wrote a novel called Lookthat came out last March. BM: What book from the past year would you like to give a shout-out to?
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