Month: May 2025
Baranyai: Concert seat resales ticket to controversy
I’m old enough to have stood outside a Ticketmaster outlet in the wee hours, alongside the scalpers’ mules and die-hard fans in sleeping bags, waiting for the box office to open.
Cornies: B. Davison debacle result of bias in school board structure
There is an irony in the fact that Lester B. Pearson school for the arts and B. Davison secondary school sit side by side along Trafalgar Street near London’s Old East Village, separated only by a parking lot and a patch of grass.
N’Stars on brink of elimination as Rock take lead late in Game 3
The Oakville Rock only led for a little over three minutes Saturday night, but those three minutes mattered most at the end of the game. Rock captain Chris Corbeil scored with 3:20 left in the third period to give Oakville their first lead of the game, 7-6, and that’s how it would end Saturday night […]
Village Fair on at Bluewater Park in Wiarton
The Rotary Club of Wiarton’s Village Fair at Bluewater Park kicked off Friday evening promising a fun-filled Civic holiday weekend event. It’s the 83rd year the Wiarton Rotary Club has hosted the family-fun-orientated weekend at the park. Friday’s schedule of events included the midway plus the Rotary’s food and corn booths. Bingo captivated the evening […]
Homicide victim remembered as ‘happy-go-lucky’ woman
A 27-year-old homicide victim from Chippewas of the Thames First Nation is being remembered as a mother, sister and daughter who loved to sing and dance. “She was a happy-go-lucky girl,” Colleen McLaughlin said of her niece, Shaniqua Henry. “She didn’t care what people thought of her. She would dance and sing. She didn’t care […]