OXFORD – The first Oxford Community Band Summer Concert was held in LaFayette Park on July 6. Francis Wilcox, this summer’s band director, announced that the concert was being dedicated to Mr. Merritt A. Russell, who had recently passed away. This was very sad news to everyone who knew this fine and very talented man. The concert was a very fitting tribute as Mr. Russell had been an instrumental music teacher to hundreds of students at Oxford Academy for 27 years.

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