Crusaders are bringing home bronze from OFSAA

Sacred Heart’s perfect season held firm all the way up until the semi-finals at the OFSAA double-A boys’ volleyball championship in Muskoka Saturday. It’s there the Crusaders finally suffered a defeat at the hands of Ottawa’s École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges, dropping a fifth and deciding set 15-13. The Walkerton school rebounded in the bronze medal […]

Local health care organizations receive $3.2M in infrastructure funding

Four local hospital organizations and health care service providers will receive $3.2 million in funding from the provincial government this year to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers made the announcement in a media release distributed Friday. As part of the infrastructure funding, Grey Bruce Health Services receives $1,808,269, Hanover […]

Sacred Heart Crusaders punch ticket to OFSAA on home court

The Sacred Heart Crusaders senior boys’ volleyball team will compete for a provincial high school championship this week. The Crusaders went unbeaten on their home floor Saturday en route to winning the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) double-A title. Sacred Heart defeated St. David’s in straight sets in the seven-team tournament’s best-of-five final […]

Brockton welcomes MZO and is anxious to get building homes

The Ontario government has granted a Minister’s Zoning Order that Brockton requested to allow residential development in Walkerton’s business park. The municipality asked for the MZO to expedite development of up to 500 housing units and allow expansion of Walkerton’s boundaries to accommodate future business and industrial development. The lands subject to the MZO that […]

Brockton welcomes MZO and is anxious to get building homes

The Ontario government has granted a Minister’s Zoning Order that Brockton requested to allow residential development in Walkerton’s business park. The municipality asked for the MZO to expedite development of up to 500 housing units and allow expansion of Walkerton’s boundaries to accommodate future business and industrial development. The lands subject to the MZO that […]

Hanover police officer acquitted on sexual assault allegation

Hanover police Const. Ryan Cabral was acquitted this week in Walkerton’s Ontario Court of Justice on a charge of sexual assault for something alleged to have taken place in 2017. A breach of trust charge was withdrawn before the trial began Monday. Visiting Crown attorney Ian Bulmer requested a sexual exploitation charge be stayed during […]

Chesley’s ER closed for eight weeks due to nurse shortage

Chesley hospital’s emergency room is closed for eight weeks starting today due to a “critical shortage of nurses.” The rest of the hospital remains open, the hospital announced in a news release. Chesley’s ER is scheduled to reopen Dec. 2. Persistent nursing shortages have forced the emergency room to close multiple times this summer. The […]