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Owen Sound Emancipation Festival a chance to reconnect
As the Emancipation Festival and Picnic marked its 162nd year in Owen Sound over the weekend, participants celebrated the event’s roots as a close-knit family reunion, along with its transformation more recently into a welcoming community celebration. Festival chair Linda Johnson said Saturday at Harrison Park, that she has been coming to the Emancipation Day […]
Former London police officer swept up in drug bust faces new charge
A former London police officer swept up in a gun and drug bust earlier this year faces a new charge, according to court records
London mother of girl missing in river clings to daughter’s final cry
“Mom!” That cry was the last word an anguished London mother said she heard from her young daughter before she was swept away by the fast-flowing Thames River, triggering a massive search for the seven-year-old that has now become a recovery mission. Little Anna Bielli was with her mother Karen Fermill and two younger siblings […]
Stratford shooter and victims had clashed for weeks: Neighbours
The dispute that flared into a mass shooting that left two people dead had been festering for much of the summer, neighbours of the shooter and the three people he shot say. Several residents of Bradshaw Drive in Stratford confirmed Stratford police had become regular visitors to their usually peaceful north-end neighbourhood in recent months, […]
Michigan and Ohio receive $500,000 to study rare turtles | Great Lakes Echo
By Ruth Thornton State wildlife agencies in Michigan and Ohio have received nearly $500,000 in federal funding to study rare turtles. The grant is part of more than $7 million distributed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to benefit rare and declining fish and wildlife and their habitats across the country. Other states receiving […]
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