NDP choose activist Lindsay Wilson as Oxford provincial election candidate
An Ingersoll woman who created a mentorship program to encourage rural women to run for office will be the New Democratic Party candidate in Oxford in the June provincial election. Ontario’s NDP party recently appointed Lindsay Wilson, co-founder of Municipal Campaign School Oxford County, to run in the riding that has been held by Progressive […]
Man arrested after SUV catapults over wall, lands on roof on busy street
An SUV ended up on its roof Monday afternoon in the southbound lanes of Wellington Street below the CN Rail-Bathurst Street overpass, a busy gateway for London’s core. The grey Dodge Journey appeared to miss a turn on Bathurst and crashed through a wrought-iron fence and a second fence before plunging several metres onto Wellington, […]
Homeless Stratford residents injured in weekend tent fire
Two people were sent to hospital with burns after the tent they were living in in the city’s east end caught fire early Saturday, Stratford police say.
Owen Sound backflow prevention program to protect water system
Owen Sound has introduced a backflow prevention program intended to protect the city’s drinking water system from possible contamination. On Jan. 10 the city passed a bylaw that requires backflow preventers on water services for industrial, commercial and institutional properties. Matt Prentice, the city’s manager of public works, said Monday that in a year the […]
More local COVID deaths but indicators show situation improving
Two more local people have died due to COVID-19. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one death Saturday and another Monday. The local toll stands at 36 since the start of the pandemic about two years ago. At total of 12 local patients are hospitalized due to COVID: Nine in a local hospital and three […]