Smith earns bronze in final Nordic race of the season

The U.S. Nationals and SuperTour Finals were held March 21 to 26 in Duluth, Minnesota, and Oxenden’s Julian Smith earned great race results in the premier Nordic skiing competition. As the final SuperTour of the racing season, some of the very best skiers in Canada and the U.S. who just came back from World Cup […]

Oxenden’s Smith races at Canadian Ski Nationals

Oxenden’s Julian Smith competed at the 96th Canadian Ski Nationals at the Nakkertok Ski Trails in Ottawa this past week. With temperatures of 12 degrees and no snow in the forecast, it is a miracle that the races were run at all, Smith’s team said. Normally a 7.5-kilometre trail would be used, but the man-made […]

Maple Magic syrup festival at elk farm cancelled this year

The annual Maple Magic sugar bush event in Georgian Bluffs, which was to have been held this weekend, is cancelled for this year. Typically, the Wiarton Rotary Club’s maple syrup fundraiser takes place during the last two weekends of March at Regal Point Elk Farm. A notice on the Wiarton Rotary website announces the cancellation, […]

SPORTS BRIEFS: Wiarton’s Pickett earns All-Star nod

ATTACK ALUMNI COMPETE IN UNIVERSITY CUP Cole Cameron, Jackson Doherty, Zachary Roberts (Toronto Metropolitan University), and Justin Brack (Brock University) will join 182 Canadian Hockey League Alumni at the 2024 U Sports Men’s Hockey Championships from March 14 to 17. The four former Attack players will try to topple the top-seeded University of New Brunswick […]

Funding will link more people in Grey-Bruce with primary health teams

New provincial funding to help local people access health care includes money for Saugeen First Nation to create a health team to treat band members with non-urgent needs on the reserve. “This historic announcement for our community will avail funding sufficient for the recruitment of a nurse practitioner, chronic disease management nurse, occupational therapist, social […]