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City council to limit scope of agenda items, revamp public question period
Changes are coming to how business is conducted around council and committee tables in Owen Sound, including what items are tabled for discussion and how the public engages members. On Monday evening, after a lengthy debate, Owen Sound council approved several recommendations from the city’s corporate services committee from a review of the city’s procedural […]
Council briefs: levy increase looms with $48.4 million in unfunded city projects
— During a bi-annual review of the city’s multi-year capital plan, councillor Carol Merton wondered when the city will face the reality that an annual one per cent levy increase directed to capital reserves in the face of $48.4 million in unfunded projects is severely lacking. “One per cent isn’t cutting it. It’s not even […]
Flooded London library branch reopening in ‘pop-up’ location
Damaged by the monster rainstorm that hit London last week, a London Public Library branch in the city’s northwest is reopening Tuesday in a temporary “pop-up” location. The library’s Sherwood branch will offer limited services at the temporary location while the branch remains closed for repairs this week. The branch has been closed since record-setting […]
Treasurer stole $94K from Southwestern Ontario youth soccer club
SIMCOE â A 34-year-old man whose fraud brought a local youth soccer club to the brink of ruin has been sent to jail for 18 months. During Brodie Chambersâ time as the Simcoe and District Youth Soccer Clubâs treasurer in 2021 and 2022, he siphoned off $94,285, falsified documents and reports, and forged signatures to […]
London long-haul trucker honoured for highway heroics
London long-haul trucker Joe Carroll knows âevery bump, every potholeâ on I-75 from Kentucky back to Canada. Twenty times a month, during his run with robotics or cleaning supplies, he passes that point in Ohio near Wapakoneta, an hour south of Toledo, that reminds him of the Ohio truck driver he met in March under […]