Tag: London Free Press
Unions push for full cost of school board retreat at Blue Jays stadium hotel
The union representing early childhood educators says taxpayers have the right to know how much was spent on a retreat for school board executives
Sims: Latest twist in maddening case won’t help citizen trust in bail system
Well. That didnât take long. Three weeks after Jesse Bleck was released on strict bail conditions pending his appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal, heâs expected to be back in a London bail court on Wednesday facing three charges of breaching his court orders. Bleck, 31, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison […]
London councillor dons black to highlight danger of busy road
It’s not often a London city councillor chooses a wardrobe to match the message they plan to deliver at a council meeting. But that is what Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister did Tuesday, when he made an impassioned plea to improve the safety of a deadly stretch of Hamilton Road. “I am sounding the alarm […]
Port Dover store owner embodies ‘fantastic’ pinup esthetic
Vintage style, not vintage values, is a motto popular with todayâs pinup community, and it rings true with Suzie Major, owner of Suzieâs Bombshell Boutique in Port Dover. âAs a teenager I had always been into vintage style,â Major said. âI figured out pretty early on that the 1940s and ’50s esthetic was my favourite.â […]
Indigenous group clears cottagers’ barricades at Ipperwash Beach
Tensions are running high on a stretch of Ipperwash Beach after a group from a nearby First Nation removed barricades and plantings put in by cottagers. Cottagers said dozens of people who described themselves as Anishinaabe members of the nearby Kettle and Stony Point First Nation used chainsaws and heavy machinery on Saturday to clear […]
Jail for man who set treehouse fire that killed teen girl sleeping inside
A young man found guilty of criminal negligence causing death for setting a treehouse on fire, killing a teenage girl who was sleeping inside it with her boyfriend, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail. After a trial, Superior Court Justice Roger Chown found an intoxicated and disgruntled Taran Hibma, then 18, of Owen […]
Sport notes: Aylmer man now Calgary Flames voice; Kaura Coles a world champ
Aylmer native Jon Abbott has been named the new play-by-play voice of the Calgary Flames on Sportsnet
Answer raises more questions for London couple pushing for change
A year after meeting high ranking provincial officials about their son’s suicide, a London couple have a response.
100 residents displaced by fire at Chatham public housing complex
Municipal officials are helping nearly 100 residents of a Chatham public housing complex displaced by a fire early Sunday that sent flames shooting through the buildingâs roof. Chatham-Kent Fire and Rescue helped to evacuate the building at 99 McNaughton Ave. W. after firefighters responded to the blaze at about 6 a.m. âWhen the crews arrived […]