Tag: play
Owen Sound Baysox bring playoff baseball back to the Scenic City
Playoff baseball returns to Owen Sound this week. The Owen Sound Baysox finished second in the North Dufferin Baseball League and will take on the seventh-place Barrie Angels in the first round of the postseason. The first round is a best-of-five, or first to six points series, beginning Thursday night in Owen Sound at Tom […]
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 […]
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, […]
Brews News: Big events coming up at London Brewing
Sure, it started as an afterthought at a farm-to-table restaurant. But look at it now.
Mildmay country music star excited for local long weekend shows
While the whirlwind of a ride of the past couple of years has taken Owen Riegling across North America, the rising country music star from Mildmay always looks forward to coming back to where it all began. “I look forward to shows at home more than anything,” Riegling said Friday morning, hours before he was […]
Points North: Shooting a Unicorn | Great Lakes Now
By Kelly House, Morgan Springer and Daniel Wanschura
Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.
This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio.
Two guys in Michigan are hunting coyotes in the middle of winter.
On Lake Michigan, a coal-fired steamship and ferry eyes a clean-energy future | Great Lakes Now
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
Funding will triple output at St. Thomas ‘mass timber’ maker: Official
A $3.5-million boost from the province will allow Element5 to triple production of mass timber
London brokerage, former president fined $82.5K for ‘dishonest’ deals
Ontarioâs financial services watchdog has fined a well-known London mortgage brokerage $75,000 and its former president $7,500 and suspended his licence for a year following a two-year probe.