Tag: play
Public meetings planned on Woodstock’s play for 400 hectares from Norwich
Officials are giving residents a chance to weigh in on a proposed boundary adjustment that would transfer nearly 400 hectares of land from Norwich Township to Woodstock.
City hall, outside workers union agree to four-year labour pact
The union representing London’s outside workers â whose duties include trash collection and maintaining roads and parks â has agreed to a new four-year labour deal, city hall officials announced on Wednesday.
Legacies live on as Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame reopens at Owen Sound legion Sunday
Music has a funny way of distorting time. When the Ridge River Ramblers started into Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl Sunday afternoon at the grand reopening of the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound you could close your eyes and imagine a time before the fire when […]
SPORTS BRIEFS: U9 North Stars heat up
MAJOR NORTH STARS LOSE TO LAKERS The Peterborough Lakers outscored the North Stars 4-0 in the third period en route to a 15-8 victory inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday night. Lion’s Head product Rob Hellyer did most of the damage for Peterborough with three goals and four assists in the contest. Austin […]
Hamilton takes stranglehold in series, Owen Sound faces elimination
If they’re going down, it will be while hitting, kicking and screaming. The Owen Sound North Stars dropped Game 2 of their first-round best-of-five Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League playoff series 10-4 to the Hamilton Bengals inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday evening. In large part, because of the over 70 minutes in […]
Vigil held for London teen killed two days after high school graduation
More than a dozen people held a vigil Saturday night to mourn an 18-year-old Londoner who graduated high school only two days before being killed, with grieving friends remembering him as a friendly and energetic young man. Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,â died Friday night after he was stabbed in the parking […]
London doctor: Heat wave illnesses can take days to kick in
The fallout of this week’s brutal London-area heat wave hasn’t hit city hospitals, but that doesn’t mean it won’t yet.
Q+A: New Ontario Hockey League boss Bryan Crawford
The retired Ontario Hockey League commissioner passed the torch with a few simple words of encouragement. âGo get ’em, kid,â David Branch said to Bryan Crawford before an introductory news conference Thursday at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Replacing a 45-year legend at the helm is no small feat, but the 42-year-old from […]
Loved ones’ pain expressed at sentencing of driver in Girl Guides crash
Ten of the 17 expected victim impact statements were read in a London courtroom on Thursday morning as sentencing began for an elderly driver who crashed into a troop of Girl Guides, killing an eight-year-old.