Tag: money
As US Postal Service bleeds money, some in Michigan will drive miles for mail | Bridge Michigan
The Postal Service is trimming contract units that provide PO boxes. In Salem Township, that means dozens of residents will have to make a 14-mile round trip to pick up their mail….
Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash | Bridge Michigan
The federal government will provide more than $600 million to help two rural electricity cooperatives buy money from the nuclear plant. While proponents celebrate, anti-nuclear activists say the money could be better spent elsewhere….
25 years after a major toxic lead cleanup, westside neighbors still don’t feel safe | Great Lakes Now
By Enrique Saenz, Mirror Indy
Mirror Indy is a part of Free Press Indiana, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to ensuring all Hoosiers have access to the news and information they need.
The first thing Patti Daviau sees when she opens the front door of her home on South Harris Avenue every morning is a thick bunch of weeds reaching through a 500-foot stretch of chain link fence across the street.
Woman says she’s charged with assault – over a water gun fight
SIMCOE â A woman says she’s in disbelief after being charged with assault with a weapon for what she calls the act of spraying a person during a water gun fight. Wendy Washik, 58, was named by Ontario Provincial Police in a news release after a Labour Day weekend incident on Woodway Trail in Simcoe […]
Dyer: Still benefits to being a colony for New Caledonia
With the sole exception of the 50 people on Pitcairn Island, the United Kingdom liquidated its holdings in the Pacific Ocean long ago. France, by contrast, has a half million citizens in the Pacific.
Local emergency services members participate in 9/11 memorial stair climb
Grey-Bruce emergency services personnel gathered at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday morning to suffer in solidarity and in honour of those who climbed up the World Trade Center towers to aid in the evacuation on Sept. 11, 2001, in the moments after commercial airliners slammed into the buildings in a terror attack. Over […]
Walk for Parkinson’s returns to Owen Sound Saturday
Team Ian took Grey-Bruce by storm Saturday. The Walk for Parkinson’s fundraising team in honour and in memory of Ian Shouldice raised nearly $5,000 for the Owen Sound walk, organized by the Parkinson Society of Southwestern Ontario. That’s the most raised by a single team this year, and over a third of the local walk’s […]
‘He was just gone’: Missing man’s sister appeals for tips in 2022 disappearance
Rumours have swirled through the Lake Erie village of Port Burwell about the fate of a man who disappeared without trace more than two years ago.
Brews News: Change is a constant at craft breweries
Among head brewers and their accounting department friends, tweaks to familiar beers are a frequent fact of life.
Pennywise Thrift Shoppe moving to downtown Markdale
A pillar of the Markdale community for more than 70 years has found a new location and is preparing to open its doors again soon. The Pennywise Thrift Shoppe, operated by the Centre Grey General Hospital Auxiliary to raise funds for the Markdale hospital, is set to relocate to the town’s downtown in the near […]