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School board, staff weigh in on armed security

When Oxford High School security guards Jim Rourke and Gary Chapman approached Principal Todd Dunckley last year about possibly being armed, he was "adamantly opposed." "My comment throughout several discussions was where I felt public opinion was, where I felt Oxford was, what I thought the mindset of the sanctity of an educational setting would be (and that ) was that it wouldn't be well accepted," Dunckley said....more >>




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Speaker brings Native American culture to life

Reading about the past and interacting with it is two different things. On Jan. 9, Leonard Elementary Fifth Grader's got to touch and see first hand what Native American life was about through the "Native American Experience" program put on by Gary Gahreeb....more >>

Free sex/abstinence workshop Feb. 5

Talking to your child about the subject of sex and knowing what to do or say can be difficult, which is why Oxford Addison Youth Assistance is hosting a "Talk Early &Talk Often" free workshop on Tuesday, Feb....more >>

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Born May 18th

1897: Frank Capra, film director (It's A Wonderful Life).

1902: Meredith Willson, composer and lyricist (The Music Man).

1911: Joseph Vernon Big Joe Turner, blues singer.

1918: John Paul II [Karol Jozef Wojtyla], Roman Catholic pope.

1919: Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer.

May 18th
in history

1904: Brigand Raizuli kidnaps American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco.

1917: The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I.

1931: Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashes his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He is picked up seven hours later by a passing ship.

1933: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act.

1942: New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.