Tag: home
Realtors see reasons for optimism as London-area home sales rise
Homes sales in the London region picked up for a second straight month in October, signalling more buyers are willing to pull the trigger on purchases amid lower interest rates, the latest housing market snapshot shows. A total of 661 homes exchanged hands in October, 135 more than in the same month last year, the […]
Students at Michigan State and Wisconsin win EPA funding for environmental health innovations
By Isabella Figueroa Student researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin are among the winners of an Environmental Protection Agency contest for innovations in sustainability. The EPA established the People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition to support teams of undergraduate and graduate students working to develop solutions to environmental and […]
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Strathroy council rejects proposed flag ban that irked LGBTQ group
STRATHROY â Politicians here overwhelmingly rejected restrictions proposed by a town council colleague that would have banned non-government flags on municipally owned land, a possibility that rankled LGBTQ community members. In an 8-1 vote Monday night, politicians turfed Coun. Brian Derbyshire’s bid to allow only municipal, provincial and federal flags on flagpoles on municipal properties, […]
Witness testifies about women’s fear after fatal bush party shooting: ‘All scared’
They were so scared of a texted threat, they needed a plan. One of the young women who was in Emily Altmannâs car after the fatal shooting of Josue Silva at a southeast London bush party said she, Altmann and three other women made a plan in the car about what to say to police […]
Father gets 21 years, mother 18, for ‘relentless’ abuse of children
The family home, the judge said, was âa house of horrors.â Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney, in his decision to sentence two parents to long prison sentences for routinely sexually and physically abusing their four children during an 18-year period, said the facts of the case were âthe most egregious that I have encountered during […]