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Raise your voice, improve your health: Singer, nurse start community choir
A Southwestern Ontario vocalist is partnering with a community health agency to promote group singing as a form of therapy for both mental and physical health.
Two seniors killed in separate weekend crashes across London region
Two seniors are dead after separate crashes on rural Southwestern Ontario roads Saturday, including one involving a pedestrian. A 72-year-old Chatham resident was rushed to hospital, where they later succumbed to their injuries, after a two-vehicle crash in western Elgin County Saturday afternoon. Paramedics, Dutton-Dunwich firefighters and Elgin OPP officers responded to the crash involving […]
Nursing home resident hit with fraud worries, big rent increase: Family
An elderly woman living at a Southwestern Ontario retirement home where police allege a fraud duped several people out of more than $50,000 is facing a new stressor, her family says â an increase that would more than double her rent. Miranda Guitard said her husbandâs 90-year-old grandmother, who has been diagnosed with dementia, became […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]
Bruce County council gets first look at 2025 draft budget
Bruce County‘s draft budget is calling for a 6.81 per cent tax levy increase next year. County staff on Thursday presented the proposed 2025 capital and operating budgets to council. The proposed 6.81 per cent increase, which includes a 1.5 per cent growth assumption would result in an $82 increase in county taxes for the […]
Former Blue Mountains mayor filing complaint about Grey County meeting
Former Blue Mountains mayor Alar Soever said he will file a formal closed-meeting complaint against Grey County for conducting a joint meeting with its nine municipal councils behind closed doors. He sent a letter Sept. 19 to the county outlining his concerns about a joint planning services meeting held Aug. 8 and waited to see […]
Little Traverse Conservancy launches Wild Shores Initiative to protect Great Lakes shoreline – Great Lakes Commission
Little Traverse Conservancy in Harbor Springs, Michigan, has announced its new Wild Shores Initiative, aimed at protecting the undeveloped Great Lakes shoreline in the organization’s five-county service area which includes […]
Engine woes for student pilot into emergency landing: Police
A student pilot was forced to make an emergency landing near Goderich on Thursday evening, police say â and they pulled it off.
New York man sets smallmouth bass state fishing record in St. Lawrence County – Great Lakes Commission
A New York man has set a state record for catching a 9-pound smallmouth bass from the St. Lawrence River during a bass tournament in Ogdensburg, New York. The record-breaking […]
Residents in Monroe County take part in outdoor activities along the River Raisin | Great Lakes Echo
Monroe is split by the River Raisin, which runs directly into Lake Erie. The city’s residents are not shy about taking advantage of its proximity to the water, even if it means fishing in the draining canal of a power plant. Fishers, young and old, gather at the Monroe fishing site near the DTE Energy […]
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