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Cuyahoga Valley National Park celebrates 50 years of environmental stewardship

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Cuyahoga Valley National Park celebrates 50 years of environmental stewardship

By Zaria Johnson, Ideastream Public Media

This story was originally published by Ideastream.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park is turning 50, and celebrating the milestone by highlighting decades of expansion, development and environmental preservation.

In September, the park kicked off hikes, happy hours and scavenger hunts — events that will continue through the end of 2025 — to showcase how far Northeast Ohio’s national park has come since its founding in 1974.

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Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound mayor highlights 2024 accomplishments

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Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy says the city has made some huge decisions in 2024, including important deals with its neighbouring municipalities, new services for its own ratepayers and renewed agreements with its community partners.  Boddy gave his year-end update during the city’s last regular council meeting on Monday (Dec. 16), where he outlined dozens […]

London Free Press

U.K. men who came to Southwestern Ontario for ‘crime tourism’ deported

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A Sarnia judge had a farewell message for a pair of U.K. men who, apparently unsuccessfully, tried scamming several local homeowners out of money with fraudulent cleaning and repair jobs while on a vacation in Canada. “Go home,” Justice Paul Kowalyshyn said Thursday in a Sarnia courtroom. “Don’t let the door of the plane hit you […]