of Bridgeport. Republican-American of Waterbury. New Haven Register of New Haven. Voices, a free publication distributed in over 20 towns in Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties. Local media broadcasting stations are: WTNH-New Haven WVIT-Hartford WFSB-Hartford The local cable provider is Comcast of Western Connecticut, located in Seymour. Infrastructure Transportation The town is bisected by Connecticut Route 67 that begins in Woodbridge and ends in New Milford. Route 188 runs through the Quaker Farms section of town. Other major roads in town are Route 34 along the Housatonic River (and which crosses the Housatonic into Monroe via the Stevenson Dam Bridge) and Route 42 in the eastern section of town. Waterbury-Oxford Airport, with the second largest runway in Connecticut is located in Oxford and Middlebury. The airport, which is owned and operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, has become one of the largest and fastest growing corporate aviation centers in the Northeast. There are 252 aircraft based at the airport, with 80 of those aircraft being large corporate business jets. Notable people John Lyman Chatfield (18261863), U.S. Civil War colonel Barbara Hershey (born 1948), actress Orson Hyde (18051878), leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and member of the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Kurt Kepshire (born 1959), former pitcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals Ottilie Pauline Wilke Lundgren (19072001), victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks Andrew Leete Stone (18151892), pastor, author, and Civil War chaplain Elliot M. Sutton (18411908), politician (mayor of Burlington, Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate) Mysterious death In 2001, Oxford made international headlines when 94-year-old Oxford resident Ottilie Lundgren mysteriously died of anthrax. At the time, there was a spread of anthrax attacks in New York and Washington, and this case baffled law enforcement. No additional cases in the area suggested Lundgren's death was the result of accidental cross-contamination of the mail. References External links Town of Oxford official website Oxford Public Library Oxford Historical Society Oxford Public Schools Towns in New Haven County, Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley Towns in the New York metropolitan area Towns in Connecticut