By Anna Barnes
The Detroit River serves as an important geographic feature, connecting lakes St. Clair and Erie and creating a natural border between the U.S. and Canada. Despite its physical prominence in Detroit, its rich cultural significance is lost among many community residents. Programs are underway to address that disconnect.
The Ripley and District Horticultural Society (RDHS) Oct. 15 meeting featured a first-person account of viticulture – the practice of growing grapes for the purpose of making wine by member Susan Miszturak. She and her husband spent 23 years in the Niagara region growing grapes and making wine before retiring home to Ripley in 2024. […]
Members of the South Bruce branch of the Retired Women Teachers of Ontario/Organization des eneignantes retraitées de l’Ontario (RWTO/OERO) met at the Ripley-Huron legion hall on Oct. 15 for their fall meeting. Ever mindful of the needs of the community, particularly women, the ladies brought donations for personal hygiene products, which were given to the […]
Now 80 years old and facing health issues, notorious conman Albert Walker has been denied day parole by the Parole Board of Canada yet again.
The London Knights (5-2-2) play host to the Kitchener Rangers (6-3-1) on Sunday afternoon at Canada Life Place in a rematch from Friday night’s lopsided Knights win. Follow along below for live coverage by LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette
Leaves left on the lawn will suffocate the grass
Winter conditions in the Great Lakes are getting much shorter — by about two weeks fewer each decade since 1995
Last call continues for too many craft breweries. A trio of popular brew pubs each turned off the lights this fall.
Policing-Free Schools denounced Premier Doug Ford’s proposed Bill 33.
Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that hit a 14-year-old cyclist then sped off. According to Huron County OPP, the collision took place on collision on Bluewater Highway, north of Airport Road, in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh around 8 p.m. on Oct. 15. Following the collision, which knocked a passenger mirror off the side of […]
Did you hear the one about the pioneer who walked his dinner home? That would be the first settler in the eastern part of Arran Township, David Chalmers, a bachelor and a bit wet behind the ears. It was back in 1851, before Arran was surveyed into farm lots. Historian Norman Robertson tells the story, […]
Love in All the Small Places, a five-part web series, will be filmed in December.