Tag: Homeless
Aric Nesbitt includes more state psychiatric hospitals in anti-crime agenda
Michigan needs more psychiatric hospitals to cut down on homelessness and crime, the GOP gubernatorial candidate has proposed, coinciding with a Trump administration push for more institutionalization of the homeless….
LFP Letters to the Editor: March 4, 2026
Poor response I would like to thank Deputy Mayor Shawn Lewis for answering my email. Only two out of the whole council responded to requests for five minutes. Lewis came to my home to discuss my homeowners’ homeless program that could see homeless people housed at half Ontario Works or Ontario Disability Support Program rates […]
Police probe two fires in ‘structures’ at town’s homeless camp
Ontario Provincial Police are asking witnesses to come forward after they say two fires broke out at a homeless encampment in Ingersoll. It was about 8:45 p.m. on Saturday when officers with the OPP’s Oxford detachment along with Ingersoll fire department firefighters and Oxford County paramedics responded to reports of two fires at what police […]
Owen Sound walk for Safe ‘n Sound raises $44,000 Saturday
From November through January, Safe ‘n Sound has seen more than 200 different people overnight.
Hanover police investigating stabbing of homeless man
Hanover police are investing a stabbing in the face and upper body of a homeless man in Hanover and are asking for anyone with information to come forward. Hanover Police Service said in a news release Friday that the assault happened on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of 10th Avenue and […]