Maybe it was always too good to be true for Owen Sound. A Midwest Division race with London, Kitchener and Guelph all struggling early. Well, after dropping back-to-back games to the Rangers and Knights while being outscored 11-2, the Attack’s reign at the top looks rented not owned. On the bright side, the Guelph Storm […]
News and notes from Tuesday’s city council meeting, the last one of the four-year term: Council voted not to cut a new developer a break on the fees it pays to city hall for new services in a growing city. The builder behind Eve Park, a net-zero development in the west end, had appealed the […]
A large grass fire ripped through a field on Chippewas of the Thames First Nation southwest of London Tuesday afternoon. Ontario Provincial Police officers and firefighters from Oneida Nation of the Thames were on scene to tackle the blaze that at first appeared to be burning unattended. OPP Const. Jeff Hare described it as a […]
A big push in Oxford County to intercept used Halloween pumpkins before they hit the landfill had its most successful haul yet, its lead organizer says.
Herbert Hildebrandt’s pitch to throw out his assault conviction based on the argument his case took too long to get to trial landed at a judge’s feet with a thud.
From metal riffs to chicken picks, London guitarist Dan (Dutch) Fawcett could play it all.
Owen Sound council on Monday directed staff to continue processing an application to build rental apartments on an empty piece of land at 740 10th Street West, roughly across from Marlan Towers apartment building. A development application for that site has been submitted. It calls for an “eight-unit stacked cluster townhouse development” with four units […]
City council on Monday agreed to take $25,000 from an anticipated 2022 budget surplus and give it to Safe ‘n Sound, a homeless drop-in centre on 8th Street East in Owen Sound, to extend its winter hours from Nov. 14 through next March. Grey County is responsible for providing affordable, temporary and emergency housing for […]
A Western University faculty strike looms as contract talks go down to the wire this week over workload and job security, a union official says.
The Inter Township Fire Department(ITFD) managed to extinguish a blaze on Griffith Island Saturday despite the remote location and high winds.
A Blue Mountains woman is one of two people charged with numerous drug offences after a vehicle stop in Collingwood last week. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Nov. 2, an officer on patrol made a vehicle stop on Raglan Street in relation to a Highway Traffic Act infraction, Collingwood and the Blue Mountains OPP said […]
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(THE CONVERSATION) Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human activity.
