Tag: Local News
Man arrested after SUV catapults over wall, lands on roof on busy street
An SUV ended up on its roof Monday afternoon in the southbound lanes of Wellington Street below the CN Rail-Bathurst Street overpass, a busy gateway for London’s core. The grey Dodge Journey appeared to miss a turn on Bathurst and crashed through a wrought-iron fence and a second fence before plunging several metres onto Wellington, […]
Homeless Stratford residents injured in weekend tent fire
Two people were sent to hospital with burns after the tent they were living in in the city’s east end caught fire early Saturday, Stratford police say.
Owen Sound backflow prevention program to protect water system
Owen Sound has introduced a backflow prevention program intended to protect the city’s drinking water system from possible contamination. On Jan. 10 the city passed a bylaw that requires backflow preventers on water services for industrial, commercial and institutional properties. Matt Prentice, the city’s manager of public works, said Monday that in a year the […]
More local COVID deaths but indicators show situation improving
Two more local people have died due to COVID-19. The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported one death Saturday and another Monday. The local toll stands at 36 since the start of the pandemic about two years ago. At total of 12 local patients are hospitalized due to COVID: Nine in a local hospital and three […]
Summerfolk organizers are all business this year
Summerfolk organizers have started to run the business side of their operations more like a business, the president of the Georgian Bay Folk Society said Monday. Starting next week, six volunteers each with a list of 10 businesses will fan out across Grey-Bruce to solicit sponsorships for the 47-year-old Owen Sound festival, which is planning […]