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Crossing guard duty at issue

Last year's budget cuts still weighed heavily on the Board of Education's mind as it considered adding nine hours of crossing-guard duty per day. The final decision was to wait and see how much money and when they would receive the Education Job Fund before spending it....more >>

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Chinese delegates visit elementary schools

Oxford Community Schools hosted some special guests this week as Chinese delegates toured the district to study the American education system. Twenty-one representatives spent Monday, Dec....more >>

Next stop: Costa Rica!

Parents who are looking for an educational experience this summer for their eighth grade students should talk to Oxford Middle School teacher Jorge Gomez. Gomez, the eighth-grade Spanish teacher at OMS and Oxford High School science teacher Kelly Bollman will be heading up an educational field trip to Costa Rica from July 20-29, 2011....more >>




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Singing for seniors!

Second-graders from Daniel Axford Elementary boarded their big yellow bus Tuesday morning to bring some Christmas cheer to the senior citizens living at Independence Village of Waterstone....more >>

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Born May 22nd

1828: Albrecht von Grafe, German eye surgeon, founder of modern opthamology.

1844: Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter.

1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series.

1907: Laurence Olivier, actor.

1920: Thomas Gold, astronomer.

May 22nd
in history

1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.

1856: Senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina strikes Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery.

1863: Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.

1868: The Great Train Robbery takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana.

1872: The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners.