Man charged after dispute in Port Elgin grocery store over masks
Saugeen Shores police charged a 56-year-old Port Elgin man because customers were threatened with a baseball bat for not wearing masks at a Port Elgin grocery store, police said. Police were called on Jan. 6 at 8:08 p.m. about a man who allegedly was threatening people and causing damage at the grocery story, a police […]
Port Elgin man faces charges over mask dispute
The Saugeen Shores Police Service responded to an incident at a Port Elgin grocery store on Thursday evening.
UPDATE: Snow squalls forecasted across midwestern Ontario
Environment Canada has upgraded a snow squall watch to a warning for Grey-Bruce and Huron-Perth counties.
School bus drivers to get N95 masks, but COVID concerns persist
School bus drivers will be included in the group of education workers receiving the safer N95 masks, a decision welcomed by their union who said it had been unclear.
Outbreak declared at St. Thomas hospital
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital declared an outbreak of COVID-19 on the fifth floor Acute Medicine Unit.
Ceremonies held on the second anniversary of Flight PS752
It’s been two years since 176 people lost their lives in the downing of Flight PS752.
Grey Bruce Health Unit reports 88 new COVID cases Saturday
Eighty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Grey-Bruce Saturday. There are now 383 active COVID cases, including nine local people in a local hospital and one in hospital outside Grey-Bruce, the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported. Figures were current to midnight Friday. Grey Bruce Health Services’ Owen Sound hospital has a continuing COVID outbreak. […]
Ontario’s GO-Vaxx bus makes second stop in London
The province’s GO-Vaxx COVID-19 vaccine clinic made its second stopover in the city Saturday, offering shots to Londoners who booked appointments in advance. The GO-Vaxx bus, a retrofitted GO Transit vehicle, parked at Deveron Crescent and Commissioners Road East, near the former Zellers and close to the Food Basics at 11 a.m. Saturday to adminster […]
PHOTOS: How to train your police dog
Stratford police were in London on Wednesday to train Jack, a member of their K9 unit. LFP photojournalist Mike Hensen was there, too, and captured these images:
Willie’s prognostication will be online-only this year
Omicron has forced Wiarton Willie’s live, annual morning prediction online only, with the public not present, and cancelled Groundhog Day festivities in South Bruce Peninsula. If Willie doesn’t see his shadow at 8:07 a.m. Feb. 2., legend has it we’ll have an early spring. If he does, here come six more weeks of winter. “The […]