Police Briefs

STUNT DRIVING CHARGE LAID   A resident of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh is now facing a Stunt Driving charge for Excessive Speed following a traffic stop conducted by Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Gorrie this week. On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at approximately 8:26 a.m., a Huron OPP officer was conducting speed enforcement patrols in Gorrie […]

Pitch in town clean up

Once again Covid is hampering the method we can use for this annual community betterment project. Based on the success of last year’s program, we are again turning to members of the public to “pitch-in” and make an effort to clean areas of over winter debris. This can be done anytime but we are making […]

Wingham/Lucknow U18 Girls win Provincial Championship!

The Wingham/Lucknow girls’ U18 hockey team are provincial champions after capturing the gold medal at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association “C” championship held in Toronto on the weekend of April 8. The determined group of young women – made up of players from Wingham, Lucknow, Listowel and Goderich – brought home the gold medal after […]

Crokinole results

A smaller crowd played Crokinole on Saturday, April 16, as a lot of the regulars were celebrating Easter. Clare Kuepfer was high man with 59, Neil Cook was second with 58 and Mike Howe was third with 47.  Neil topped the twenties with 46, Clare had 41 and Bob Nelson had 25 for third.  Cathy […]

Purple Grove News

Happy Easter to all our friends and connections from Purple Grove!  Hope you had a good weekend with family. Thanks to the Ripley Business Community for the Easter egg hunt on Saturday in Lewis Park! And it’s Earth Week this week – so we hope everyone is ready to put their  conservation skills to use […]