Owen Sound Sun Times

Christmas parade in Chatsworth draws crowds

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Santa waved from his horse-drawn white buggy to hundreds who waited for him Saturday at the end of the Chatsworth Santa Claus parade.  Kids sat in snow banks and everyone was bundled up amid the frigid temperatures. Santa met the kids later at the legion to hear their Christmas wishes. Highway 6 in Chatsworth was closed […]

Grey/Bruce Owen Sound Sun Times

Durham historian wins Ontario Museum Association award for Marathon of History magazine

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A Durham historian helping to uncover local stories is being rewarded for his labour of love. Mat Johnson recently won the Ontario Museum Association’s award for excellence in publications for his free magazine Marathon of History. “I was ecstatic . . . it’s pretty cool. It’s just cool, that’s the best way to describe it,” […]

Lucknow Sentinel NWMO

It’s official: South Bruce is a willing DGR host

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On Nov. 12, South Bruce council adopted the narrow referendum decision in favour of being host to an underground vault for used nuclear fuel, thereby unlocking a $4 million “milestone payment,” whether the facility is built there or not. Council members in a unanimous recorded vote adopted the community’s vote and directed that the Nuclear […]

NWMO Owen Sound Sun Times

It’s official: South Bruce council is a willing DGR host

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South Bruce council Tuesday adopted last week’s narrow referendum decision in favour of hosting an underground vault for used nuclear fuel, thereby unlocking a $4 million “milestone payment,” whether the facility is built there or not.  Council members in a unanimous recorded vote adopted the community’s vote and directed that the Nuclear Waste Management Organization […]

London Free Press

Father gets 21 years, mother 18, for ‘relentless’ abuse of children

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The family home, the judge said, was “a house of horrors.” Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney, in his decision to sentence two parents to long prison sentences for routinely sexually and physically abusing their four children during an 18-year period, said the facts of the case were “the most egregious that I have encountered during […]

Grey/Bruce Owen Sound Owen Sound Sun Times

Groups looking for people to give their time to help in community

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Maybe you’ve got some time to spare and want to make a difference but you don’t know how.  A volunteer fair held in the public library auditorium in downtown Owen Sound Wednesday featured a variety of groups whose representatives were eager to explain the ways they rely on volunteers.  Miriam Dupuis, who organizes volunteers at Bruce […]