Month: September 2024
A solo swim across Lake Ontario for mental health research and suicide prevention
In August, an Ontario man will attempt a nearly 32-mile open water solo swim across Lake Ontario starting in Niagara-On-The-Lake and ending at Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto for charity. […]
Pride officials fume as vandals strike days-old rainbow crosswalk
Pride officials in Oxford County are appealing to the public for tips after a newly installed rainbow-coloured crosswalk in Tillsonburg was vandalized. The Tillsonburg Pride crosswalk, at Broadway and Bridge Street West, was vandalized with what appears to be black spray paint, officials with Oxford Pride said in a Facebook post Monday morning. “Our sponsors […]
Letters to the Editor: July 29, 2023
Plan for reality
OPP busy with calls on Lake Huron on weekend
Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police responded to eight marine-related calls on the weekend on Lake Huron. Saturday at 1:14 p.m. the Grey Bruce OPP Marine Unit helped rescue a disabled vessel on Lake Huron. With the assistance of the Coast Guard the vessel made it to shore safely, a police news release said Monday. At 2:27 […]
Area politician pushes back on probe as three-month pay penalty may loom
In her 47-page report going to council Aug. 14, commissioner Mary Ellen Bench recommends that Jubenville’s council pay be suspended for three months
PHOTOS: Maggie Mac Neil and the 2023 world aquatics championships
London swimming star Maggie Mac Neil won two medals at the 2023 world aquatics championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She won two medals – silver in the women’s 100m butterfly and bronze in the women’s 4x100m medley relay.
Court records detail ‘violent’ attack that led to homeless camp teardown
A hammer and a wooden plank were allegedly used in an assault that prompted authorities in St. Thomas to dismantle a homeless encampment this month, court records show. Four St. Thomas residents, aged 30 to 38, were charged in the fallout of what police and municipal officials described as a “violent assault” that triggered the […]
10 years later, migrant workers get payout over police DNA dragnet
Junior Modeste says he’s still traumatized from the day Ontario Provincial Police approached him and other migrant workers for DNA samples. “It was a cold day. We were all getting back to the bunkhouses, and (the farm owner) said there were some people here who wanted to speak to us,” said Modeste, who is from […]
Affordable housing may rise on city-owned land in Hyde Park
Planners are accepting public feedback on the proposal to rezone city-owned land at 1364-1408 Hyde Park Rd. until Aug. 11.
Lucknow’s Music in the Fields returning with a slew of fan favourites, new additions
As Music in the Fields marks its 15th year, organizers are seeing signs the festival is regaining its pre-pandemic momentum. “It’s really the first summer where COVID hasn’t been in the forefront of the news and people’s minds,” said Cheryl Johnston, Lucknow’s Music in the Fields marketing director. “People are travelling more and it’s reflected in […]