Tag: home
Basement fire causes $50K worth of damage to Owen Sound townhouse
A small electrical fire in the basement of an Owen Sound townhouse caused $50,000 worth of damage. Ten Owen Sound Fire Department members responded to the fire in the 2100 block of 6th Avenue East around 10:30 p.m. Friday night. Owen Sound Fire Prevention Officer Greg Nicol said no one was home at the time […]
Police seek luxury car after bullets strike Woodstock home
Woodstock police are looking for a black sedan after shots were fired into a home on Monday. There were no injuries, police said. A report of shots being fired brought officers to the Harcourt Crescent/Upper Thames Drive area, where they found the home hit with the bullet holes, police said. The home is located in […]
Frustrated homeowners may get break on costly sewer hook-up order
Ingersoll landowners disgruntled over a potential $17,000 charge to switch from septic systems to a municipal sewer pipeline have persuaded local politicians to consider options other than a mandatory hook-up. After 55 Ingersoll property owners fumed upon receiving letters requiring them to link to a sewer pipeline at a maximum cost of $17,646 each, Oxford […]
SIMS: Rick DeJager’s still ‘golfing, working, breathing’ – and ever so grateful
Rick DeJager doesnât call himself lucky. âIâve been very fortunate. I have good care,â the 65-year-old lifelong Londoner said as we sat in the sunshine with his wife Colleen on his backyard deck. DeJager and his landmark south London restaurant Tiger Jackâs has been a fixture of the cityâs restaurant scene since it opened in […]
Proposed renaming of Budweiser Gardens clears first hurdle
Canada Life Place has the support of London’s politicians, who voted Monday to endorse the name change.