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COVID: outbreak at Rockwood Terrace declared over by health unit
A COVID-19 outbreak at Rockwood Terrace long-term care home in Durham declared just before Christmas is now over. The Grey Bruce Health Unit declared the outbreak over on Friday. It was first declared on Dec. 23. Three local long-term care and retirement homes remain with ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks. They are Kelso Pines in Owen Sound, […]
St. Thomas man charged with luring, criminal harassment
A 25-year-old St. Thomas man faces a number of charges, including luring a person under the age of 16 and criminal harassment. A man was arrested early Friday near a home and charged with criminal harassment and trespassing by night, St. Thomas police said Friday. Additional charges of sexual interference and luring a person under […]
New COVID-19 cases reported across Midwestern Ontario on Friday
Across the province, there are 2,907 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19
GRAPHIC: Helem will blow your mind and blur boundaries
At the top of my Black History Month reading list is the surreal Helem, from Afro-Canadian Montrealer Stanley Wany. Put out by East Coast publishing house Conundrum Press, this nearly wordless graphic novel defies easy explanation. It will challenge you. Days after reading Helem, I’m still thinking about it, and that’s why the book is […]
Grey to tout benefits of residential density, study ‘green’ standards
Planning students will help Grey County staff by preparing what staff dub a “density is not a dirty word” residential development guide as a tool for public education, and by surveying “green” development standards. Guelph University rural planning and development master’s students will present their findings in April. The savings to the county by enlisting […]