Author: Clean Technica
Winter wasn’t kind to Owen Sound’s roads
This past winter was “hellish” on city roads. The repeated freeze-thaw cycle and penetration of water within the asphalt layer through road defects and beneath it has taken its toll, city engineering services manager Chris Webb said. It’s been about 10 years since the last bad winter with so many freezing and thawing events like […]
Cassidy returns to Boston Marathon decade after setting race record
Burgoyne’s Josh Cassidy finished seventh in the wheelchair division at the Boston Marathon Monday. The 126th Boston Marathon returned to its annual Patriots’ Day date for the first time in three years amid pandemic cancellations and postponements. Cassidy finished in a time of 1:35:02 behind race winner Daniel Romanchuk’s 1:26:58. It’s the 10th-anniversary of Cassidy’s […]
Ontario Party, New Blue and Libertarians tap candidates in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound
Three more candidates have stepped forward in the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound riding as the 2022 Ontario general election draws nearer. Paralegal Suzanne Coles will represent the Ontario Party in the riding while Great Lakes freighter engineer Dan Little runs for the Ontario Libertarian Party and Vince Grimaldi enters the race for the New Blue Party of […]
Grey-Bruce health workers flying in to help Ukrainians this week
A Wiarton hospital nurse is flying to Poland tonight as part of a Canadian volunteer-led medical-aid mission into the northwestern corner of Ukraine. She’s among a handful of local health-care workers who are volunteering to help care for people displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now more than seven weeks old. Christine Moffat of Oliphant […]
Millions in funding for Grey-Bruce water infrastructure projects
The Canadian and Ontario governments have announced millions in funding for a number of water infrastructure projects in Grey-Bruce. Close to a dozen projects in the region are among 144 provincewide that are to receive more than $190 million in federal funding and about $140.5 million in provincial funding, to go along with another $108.5 […]