Day: 8 July 2025
Award nominations for Owen Sound and Kincardine theatre productions
Owen Sound Little Theatre’s production of Something Rotten! has 14 nominations in the annual Western Ontario Drama League Awards, while Kincardine Theatre Guild’s Beauty and the Beast has four. The local community theatre groups are among 28 groups in Western Ontario eligible to be nominated. The awards will be announced at the annual WODL Awards May […]
Sport notes: London Lightning eye first-place finish; Jacob Julian earns honours
A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene London Lightning eye first place The drive for first place is still alive. But the London Lightning have to win their final four games and need the K-W Titans to drop at least one of their remaining three contests to claim the […]
Wingham/Lucknow 86ers U11 coach recalls season ‘no one will soon forget’
Our story really begins from the 2022/23 season. We had nine returning players from last season’s team where we ended up not being very competitive at the “C” level and, in January, decided to compete at the LL (local league) level. When our season began for 2023/24, I was very excited with the talent that […]
London-area victim out $9K after complex gift-card scam: Police
Ontario Provincial Police say they’re investigating after a London-area person was duped out of thousands of dollars when they were falsely told they’d fallen victim to identity theft and needed to buy gift cards to track down the fraudster.
City staff recommend against returning birds to Harrison Park
Prospects look dim for restoring the exotic birds to the bird sanctuary in Harrison Park, after an outbreak of avian flu led to a mass culling of those birds in September 2022, but the city’s swans could remain. Owen Sound’s draft master plan for Harrison Park recommends not keeping exotic bird or swans and waterfowl […]