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Meet the Olympians: London athletes set to shine again at Summer Games
Will London be Canadaâs Golden City again this Olympics?
Local athletes win big at 2024 Spring Provincial Games
GODERICH – Two local athletes returned home as champions after taking part in the Special Olympics Ontario Spring Provincial Games this year in Waterloo. Paige Manger of the Goderich Seahorses and Callum MacDonald, who swims with the Seahorses as well as the Sarnia Dolphins, were competitors at this year’s games in Waterloo, which were held […]
Provincial funding will help homeless move into permanent housing
A local program that temporarily houses and prepares homeless people to live independently is now provincially funded. “It’s a huge commitment from Ontario Health for Grey-Bruce,” said Stephen Musehl, CEO of Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce. The Ontario government agency has committed $853,600 annualized funding for the program. “We’ve all seen the opioid crisis, […]
Five towers, 1,155 apartments planned along rapid transit corridors
Several apartment towers totalling more than 1,000 units have been endorsed unanimously by city politicians, with one calling them a perfect example of what they expect near London’s bus rapid transit lines.
Allegations of harassment lead to resignation and new deputy mayor in Brockton
Brockton council has appointed Kym Hutcheon to the deputy-mayor’s chair after James Lang resigned in the wake of an integrity commissioner’s report of a complaint from staff at Walkerton’s arena. Hutcheon’s council seat will be declared vacant at the Aug. 13 council meeting. Council accepted Lang’s official resignation after the integrity commissioner report was presented […]
The North Stars hope to keep the good times rolling as playoffs begin Thursday
It will be a homecoming of sorts when Adam Jones walks into the Peterborough Memorial Centre Thursday night alongside his North Stars to take on the Lakers in Owen Sound’s return to Major Series Lacrosse postseason action. Jones played in three Mann Cup tournaments with the Lakers and helped the storied Senior A lacrosse franchise […]
A group of artists and business owners inject a pop of colour and fun into Meaford’s downtown
A group of business people, property owners and community members with an artistic sensibility have banded together to help inject some colour and life into Meaford’s downtown. Meaford Downtown is a new non-profit organization dedicated to rejuvenating Meaford’s downtown core and harbourfront. Funded wholly by donations, and independent of the municipal government, chamber of commerce […]
Public monument will remain in Alice Munro’s longtime hometown: Mayor
Politicians in Alice Munro’s longtime home community remain committed to keeping the public monument honouring her amid a posthumous scandal around the Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Robotic hog barn washer developed for its human health benefits
The cleaner is first walked through the various rooms and pens in a pig barn with a joystick to program the computer system
Dyer: Trump neither unique nor irreplaceable
Almost everybody who feels obliged to comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is insisting that ‘violence has no place in American politics’, but of course it has