Oxford votes to hire professional sharpshooters to thin region's deer population

Oxford votes to hire professional sharpshooters to thin region's deer population

Oxford's City Council unanimously voted to bring professional sharpshooters into the community to lower the region's deer population at their meeting Tuesday.The council has been seeking solutions to what they called an "overpopulation problem" since January, and settled on a contract with the non-profit company White Buffalo as their best option.According to the contract, White Buffalo's sharpshooters would be allowed to bait deer into specifie…