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Police, volunteers search Lake Erie for missing Port Stanley swimmer
PORT STANLEY â Police launched an extensive search through Lake Erie around this popular beach town after a swimmer entered the water on Sunday afternoon and didn’t resurface. It was about 2:30 p.m. when the main beach â typically filled with huge crowds on sunny summer weekends â was cleared. Six Ontario Provincial Police cruisers, […]
Owen Sound splits with Cobourg, heading to playoffs
The North Stars wanted to play their best lacrosse when it mattered most, but after opening up their return to Major Series Lacrosse with eight straight losses, it looked like the season could be a wash. Now, having gone 3-1 in their final four games of the season, Owen Sound is looking to make some […]
SPORTS BRIEFS: Red-hot Baysox are playoff bound
Sr. B NORTH STARS SPLIT The Owen Sound North Stars senior B team wrapped up the regular season in the Ontario Series Lacrosse loop with a 14-9 loss to Six Nations Saturday and a 9-6 win over Hamilton Sunday. Both games took place at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. The North Stars finished in […]
Goderich resident killed in two-vehicle accident
A Goderich resident was killed Saturday, July 13 in a two-vehicle collision involving a passenger vehicle and a motorcycle just after 1:40 p.m. Huron County OPP, paramedics and the Goderich fire department responded to the accident on Bluewater Highway between MTO Road and Blyth Road in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh north of Goderich. Police said the 74-year-old driver […]
Three fatal weekend crashes on local roads – and a near-miss on water
It’s been a deadly weekend on London-area roads â and there was also a nearly fatal incident on one local waterway. Three people have died in a trio of separate collisions on roads across the region since Friday, Ontario Provincial Police say. Here are the details of each case: TWO FATAL MOTORCYCLE CRASHES One man […]
Summer movie season keeping film crews busy in London
Just call London, Hollywood North. One film is being shot in the city and two more are on tap to get cameras rolling in August, said Andrew Dodd, director of Film London, the city agency charged with expanding the film industry here. The film schedule may grow even busier as Film London also received support […]
Boley: Head’s up – what goes up in space must come down
Aaron Boley, University of British Columbia and Samantha Lawler, University of Regina In late April, farmers in Saskatchewan stumbled upon spacecraft fragments while preparing their fields for seeding. It sounds like the beginning of a science fiction movie, but this really happened, sending a powerful warning: it is only a matter of time before someone […]
String of auto thefts, crashes cause $500K in damage: OPP
A brazen early morning string of auto thefts and crashes in Goderich left $500,000 of property damage in its wake, Huron OPP say. Officers investigating a report of a suspicious vehicle in near Elgin Avenue in Goderich at about 3:20 a.m. Friday found a damaged pickup that had been abandoned on Kingston Street, police said. […]
Suspect arrested after series of collisions in Goderich
GODERICH – A 32-year-old Goderich-area man faces numerous charges after an alleged series of auto thefts, collisions and a break and enter causing an estimated more than $500,000 in damage during the morning of July 12. At 3:20 a.m., Huron OPP officers received a report of a suspicious vehicle being driven erratically in Goderich near […]
City committee to consider new Catholic high school site Tuesday
Owen Sound’s committee of adjustment will consider a plan to build a new Catholic high school on vacant land on the city’s eastern fringe. A 1,012-student Catholic high school is proposed for along 28th Avenue East, about 300 metres south of 16th Street East, documents on the city’s website show. The hearing Tuesday may be watched online via a link on […]