Tag: Damage
Lakers jump out to early lead over N’Stars
The Peterborough Lakers showed why they’re the heavy favourites in a quarterfinal series against Owen Sound in the second period of Game 1. The Lakers smothered the North Stars and chased starting goalie Kaleb Martin from Owen Sound’s net with a 7-0 frame en route to a 12-5 victory and 1-0 lead in the best-of-five […]
City police looking for vandals who defaced rainbow crosswalk
Owen Sound police are investigating vandalism to a rainbow crosswalk at Ecole Saint-Dominique-Savio overnight last Friday. Somone defaced the walkway, a welcoming symbol of LGBTQ2S+ rights, with white spray paint. Police say two suspects entered the school property Friday, July 12 just before 4:30 a.m. Both wore dark hoodies and dark pants. The walkway damage, which […]
‘Too much water’: Basement flooding widespread after Monday’s sudden deluge
A monster rainstorm on Monday deluged many areas of London, flooding streets and basements and triggering safety warnings about swollen waterways.
Public monument will remain in Alice Munro’s longtime hometown: Mayor
Politicians in Alice Munro’s longtime home community remain committed to keeping the public monument honouring her amid a posthumous scandal around the Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Dyer: Trump neither unique nor irreplaceable
Almost everybody who feels obliged to comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is insisting that ‘violence has no place in American politics’, but of course it has
One month, five fatal motorcycle crashes on London-area roads
Loved ones are mourning a 65-year-old motorcyclist whose death in a crash was the first of five deadly collisions that have killed six people on motorcycles across the London region over the past month alone
Three fatal weekend crashes on local roads – and a near-miss on water
It’s been a deadly weekend on London-area roads â and there was also a nearly fatal incident on one local waterway. Three people have died in a trio of separate collisions on roads across the region since Friday, Ontario Provincial Police say. Here are the details of each case: TWO FATAL MOTORCYCLE CRASHES One man […]
SEE IT: As Hurricane Beryl’s tail-end hit London, so did two tornadoes
A team of Western University researchers has determined two weak tornadoes caused damage in parts of London on Wednesday as the remnants of Hurricane Beryl barrelled through the region. Officials with the Northern Tornadoes Project announced on Saturday they’d found evidence of “wind damage” in two locations in London â one in west London, and […]
Driver, 23, dead after vehicle strikes tree at rural intersection
One person is dead following a crash in rural Elgin County, Ontario Provincial Police say. Police and emergency crews responded to a serious crash involving a single passenger vehicle that collided with a tree shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday, Elgin OPP said. The lone occupant, a 23-year-old from St. Thomas, was pulled from the […]
Driver charged after crash in Owen Sound that sent 5 to hospital
A driver has been charged after a two-vehicle crash on Owen Sound’s east side on July 7 sent five people to hospital. The collision occurred at the intersection of 8th Avenue East and 20th Street East at about 8 p.m., when a mid-sized Kia SUV that was travelling west on 20th Street. A Volkswagen SUV […]