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A plan to demolish a nearly 150-year-old north London home and build a Catholic high school on the site, a top priority for the fast-growing London-area Catholic board, cleared a key hurdle Tuesday. All five members of city council’s planning and environment committee – councillors Steve Lehman, Shawn Lewis, Peter
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With snow flurries continuing in London Tuesday morning, school buses were cancelled and several schools shut down across the city and region. There was a risk of snow squalls in the city and area with five centimetres of snow expected and wind gusting to 20 kilometres/hour near noon, Environment Canada
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Have snow photos? Send them in for possible inclusion in our ongoing storm coverage. Email us at lfp.website@sunmedia.ca The London region faced its first significant snowfall of the season with sweeping snow squalls that cancelled school buses and grounded planes on Monday morning and prompted a warning from provincial police
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The London region’s Catholic school board posted a $9.5 million surplus last fiscal year, a budget boon triggered by increased enrolment.  
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The booming London District Catholic school board is going on a record portable binge to keep up with soaring enrolment, installing 47 of the trailer classrooms at a cost of more than $5 million.
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A nearly 50 per cent reduction in the availability of retired educators to fill in when full-time teachers are absent will hit London-area school boards hard, officials warn. “It will affect us,” said London District Catholic board education director Vince Romeo. “We heavily rely on retired educators so we were
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STRATHROY – New elementary schools will be built in two fast-growing communities near London, the province’s education minister announced Wednesday, and more good news will be coming soon for families living in the city. Stephen Lecce said during a stop Wednesday at Holy Cross Catholic secondary school in Strathroy that
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A new Ontario requirement that high school kids take a mandatory tech course is being hailed as a good step, but worries abound over who will teach it and what the course will entail.
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Thames Valley trustees on Tuesday night approved a schedule that will see the first day of the new school year again designated as a professional activity day, adding one more day to kids' summer vacations. Read More
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More than 2,500 pupils from London District Catholic school board elementary schools and a couple of private schools will perform over the five-day gymnastics meet that continued Monday at the Carling Heights Optimist community centre in London. Officials say the event, first held in 1971, allows children to engage in
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For five years, Rodger Colmar has been the custodian at St. Anne’s elementary school in St. Thomas. Read More
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A Southwestern Ontario police chief says his officers will look for other ways to connect with students after a long-paused program placing cops in schools was permanently scrapped at nearly 200 schools across the region. Read More