Tag: Heritage
Descendant donates land for Negro Creek settlement memorial
The historial Negro Creek community, one of the first places escaped slaves from the American south settled in Grey County, will be memorialized on land donated by a descendant of an original Black family there. The land is along Negro Creek Road, just east of Highway 6, south of Williamsford. About two acres was formally donated this month […]
Lambton County celebrates 175 with historic open door events
A recent tour showed why the fine details on historic legal documents do make a difference today
Goderich approves $50,000 in funding for Menesetung Bridge
GODERICH – Goderich council has agreed to provide $50,000 in funding for concrete repairs at the Menesetung Bridge. Council approved a motion to provide the money at its Oct. 21 in response to a September request from the Menesetung Bridge Association’s Michael Dawson, who requested funding of $150,000 from the town over three years. In […]
Sports notes: London Beefeaters, Western and Fanshawe cross-country
A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene
Conservation lecture on Wednesday at Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center
A free lecture titled “West Coast National Marine Sanctuary Challenges and the Conservation Opportunities That Could Help” will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Great Lakes Maritime […]
New emergency vet clinic opens in Owen Sound to cover weekends and holidays
Grey-Bruce pet owners once again have a local option for emergency vet care on weekends and holidays when most vet offices are closed. The new Bluewater Veterinary Emergency Clinic (BVEC) is now open and will operate at the North Heritage Animal Hospital (285 10th St. W. in Owen Sound) from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 […]
Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together
West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War. But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]
The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election | Great Lakes Now
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Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation and rumblings of political upheaval in seven states — amounted to their own October surprise.
City council to weigh ban on additional drive-thrus
City council has asked for a report about whether to outlaw future drive-thrus with an interim control bylaw. Deputy Mayor Scott Greig proposed the report, preliminary to a future zoning bylaw update, which also could address drive-thrus. His motion at council’s meeting Monday proposed that the move be looked at to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, […]