Tag: local
Southwestern Ontario bottling plant shifting work to U.S., 160 jobs lost
With the news still raw that alcohol giant Diageo is closing its Amherstburg bottling plant and moving those operations to the U.S., the union representing workers there vowed Thursday to fight to save the facility. Closing the Amherstburg plant, so Diageo can bottle some Canadian-made Crown Royal whisky in the U.S., will kill 160 local […]
Hockey Fest 2025 in Owen Sound on Nov. 13-15
High school games, a university women’s game, player and referee clinics and road hockey among highlights
Finding the Spark at Long Beach’s New Electric Vehicle Campus
By Ann Diep is a senior technical program manager at Ford. First introduced to the public as a “skunkworks” operation, the Ford team charged with developing advanced electric vehicles has grown its footprint with a new, two-building campus in Long Beach, California — and is working closely with its partners … [continued]
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How many cigarette butts are littering your local beach?
Visitors sometimes leave stuff behind at Great Lakes beaches. One of the most common pieces of plastic trash found are cigarette butts. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.
Local ball players help Team Ontario win gold at Canada Games
A quartet of local ball players won gold with Team Ontario at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s. Joseph Weiler (Hepworth), Alex McGillivray (Durham), Dakota McComb (Williamsford) and Connor Paige (Hanover) helped the men from The Heartland Province beat Quebec, 4-2, in the gold-medal game Sunday. It’s been a successful summer for the […]