Tag: Local News
Disappearance of their fathers 28 years ago still haunts their kids
Victoria Weidemann continues to wonder what happened to her dad and his buddy when they went fishing one evening in 1995 and never returned. Their disappearance 28 years ago, the discovery of their partly submerged canoe off Saugeen Shores, two paddles and two life-jackets in Lake Huron, suggested the worst. But their bodies were never […]
London region’s unemployment rate nudged up in August, but so did its population and workforce, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
The London region’s unemployment rate has nudged up, but so did its population and the number of people working or looking for jobs, just-released figures show. The Statistics Canada numbers for August, made public Friday, show the local unemployment rate jumped by rough a half of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent – up […]
Police charge Saugeen First Nation man after reports of gunshots
Grey Bruce OPP charged a Saugeen First Nation resident after investigating two incidents of gunshots heard in the area. The 37-year-old man was charged with possession of a firearm contrary to a probation order and was held in custody for a bail hearing in Walkerton. A police news release said Grey Bruce OPP officers executed […]
Two dead in London apartment; police downplay ‘risk to public safety’
London police are downplaying any ongoing threat to public safety after two people were found dead in a west-end apartment. It was about 4 p.m. Thursday when police were called to an apartment building in the 500-block of Proudfoot Lane, in the city’s Westmount neighbourhood. A dead man and woman were found inside. The pair […]
Area mayor fumes as town’s rainbow crosswalk defaced – for fourth time
TILLSONBURG – A rainbow crosswalk installed in this Southwestern Ontario town just two months ago has been targeted for a fourth time by vandals. Black paint and diesel fuel were poured last weekend on the Pride-themed crosswalk, located at Broadway and Bridge Street, enraging local LGBTQ activists. City officials said the substances created “a dangerous situation […]