Author: Owen Sound Sun Times
House fire rescuers honoured as homeless students moved to residence
Eight students left homeless after a fire ripped through their crowded London rental bungalow have been given a place to stay by Fanshawe College, while the city has recognized two men for saving the lives of three of the home’s 15 occupants.
St. Thomas man charged with luring, criminal harassment
A 25-year-old St. Thomas man faces a number of charges, including luring a person under the age of 16 and criminal harassment. A man was arrested early Friday near a home and charged with criminal harassment and trespassing by night, St. Thomas police said Friday. Additional charges of sexual interference and luring a person under […]
GRAPHIC: Helem will blow your mind and blur boundaries
At the top of my Black History Month reading list is the surreal Helem, from Afro-Canadian Montrealer Stanley Wany. Put out by East Coast publishing house Conundrum Press, this nearly wordless graphic novel defies easy explanation. It will challenge you. Days after reading Helem, I’m still thinking about it, and that’s why the book is […]
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 12
Endgame hard to see While we are all tired of the necessary limits put on our lives by COVID, I am at a loss to figure out what the Ottawa and border protesters think they will accomplish. The protests at the borders are restricting the work of their own colleagues, truckers. They all protest mandates […]
Drug dealer sentenced to prison in woman’s fatal fentanyl overdose
A man who helped cook up a deadly batch of drugs that killed a Norfolk County woman two years ago has been sentenced to prison. Jeffery Steven McLean, 47, didn’t appear in person in Simcoe’s Ontario Court last month due to a snow storm, but was required to turn himself in to OPP officers the […]