Tag: north
Baysox bats explode in winner-take-all game, Owen Sound to play for the NDBL championship
The Owen Sound Baysox are one series away from a championship. On Labour Day Monday, the ‘Sox won a winner-take-all Game 6 in New Lowell with a late offensive explosion, beating the Knights 12-0. After a scoreless first four innings, Owen Sound’s bats came alive. Kirk Gibson sparked the onslaught with a three-run home run […]
One dead, two injured in rural Oxford County crash: OPP
The driver was killed and two passengers injured in a Sunday night rollover crash in East Zorra-Tavistock, Ontario Provincial Police say.
Deschamps: As flooding increases, is it time to stop living in basements?
Repeated flooding is neither inevitable nor exceptional.
Nerve-wracking wait for fishing derby winners Sunday
Ray Hynes won the 36th McDonalds Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular Sunday with a 24.8-pound Chinook salmon which he caught on the third last day of the derby. “I’m still in shock. It’s like I’m pretty excited but I’m in shock,” he said Sunday before the awards ceremony. “Everything is just a blur right now.” He’d […]
Pearson: Work evolves but its value the same
Labour Day is ultimately about the necessity of a productive people to build a better world.
LFP Archives: The mystery of the meticulous $450K bank heist
This feature by reporter Kelly Pedro was first published on the front page of the Aug. 21, 2004 print editions of The London Free Press It was supposed to be a normal Monday morning for the eight Bank of Montreal employees. But Jan. 30, 1996, would be anything but normal â a team of professional […]
Move-in at Western University goes smoothly as strike has little effect
Despite picketing workers and closed roads at Western University, the beginning of move-in weekend is off to a good start, students and parents say. Students, friends and family lined the sidewalks on campus Saturday with suitcases, boxes and luggage carts in tow, aiming to get moved into their new or familiar home in time for […]
Despite funding challenges, local turtle hatchling program soldiers on
They might have a reputation for moving slowly on land, but a long-running reptile research conservation program is racing to help restore a species of endangered turtles.
Owen Sound Attack camp breaks with the Bears looking forward to a clean slate
The words “clean slate” and “fresh start” were bandied about the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre like a mantra this week. It’s likely the same at 19 other Ontario Hockey League rinks where training camps are underway, but few of those teams will have gone through as much an off-season upheaval as the Scenic City […]
Nesathurai: Start a conversation about substance abuse today
Dorothy Bakker is a remarkable and vivacious woman and an accomplished medical school professor.