Tag: field
Owen Sound Baysox bring playoff baseball back to the Scenic City
Playoff baseball returns to Owen Sound this week. The Owen Sound Baysox finished second in the North Dufferin Baseball League and will take on the seventh-place Barrie Angels in the first round of the postseason. The first round is a best-of-five, or first to six points series, beginning Thursday night in Owen Sound at Tom […]
North Stars win lacrosse gold at Ontario Summer Games
Three Owen Sound North Stars girls’ field lacrosse players and one coach won gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games in London this past weekend. Team Blue, featuring Camryn Stauffer, Hannah Davies, Willow Smith-Spinney and coach Reese Wilkins, defeated Team Pink by a score of 13-5 to win gold. Goalie Mykah Harris, and team manager […]
Missed calls, forgotten instructions: Inside an oil spill cleanup on Toronto waterways | Great Lakes Now
By Emma McIntosh, The Narwhal
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
This old farm: One London-area family, nearly 200 years of history
From a bucolic photograph of a family out haying on its farm came questions – and a backstory about determination to stay on the land.
Shore to Shore racers wait out thunderstorm before hitting the road
A thunderstorm that bubbled up threw a curveball at organizers of the Rotary Club of Wiarton’s Shore to Shore Race, but it couldn’t stop the Civic Holiday weekend tradition from going ahead. The start time of the annual road race across the Bruce Peninsula was pushed back to let the storm pass on Monday morning, […]
Balmy Beach man leads relay run in memory of good friend
As Jesse Walker made his way along his fundraising run through the Georgian Bluffs countryside on Saturday morning, his thoughts often turned to his friend Tyson Downs, who passed away suddenly a year ago. “I did start thinking about Tyson while I was running,” the 19-year-old brain cancer survivor from Balmy Beach said once he […]
Brews News: Big events coming up at London Brewing
Sure, it started as an afterthought at a farm-to-table restaurant. But look at it now.
A Decade After Crisis, Algal Blooms Persist | Great Lakes Now
On August 2, it will be 10 years since officials in Toledo alerted residents in the early morning hours not to drink, bathe in or otherwise come into contact with tap water from the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant. For nearly three days chaos reigned, as bottled water sold out that first day before dawn and disappeared from shelves in the region the next day.
Points North: Shooting a Unicorn | Great Lakes Now
By Kelly House, Morgan Springer and Daniel Wanschura
Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.
This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio.
Two guys in Michigan are hunting coyotes in the middle of winter.
Trail Talk: Some thoughts from the trail
Butterflies, iNaturalist and the more inconspicuous orchids of Southwestern Ontario