The Dungannon Super Pull and Demo Derby is back for another year with organizers promising the biggest and best event yet. “Pullers from the Southwestern Ontario Tractor Pullers Association and the Ontario Truck and Tractor Pullers Association will be putting on an amazing show,” commented Nicole Hardy, Dungannon Super Pull committee member, on June 4. […]
Messages of condolences have poured onto social media in honour of the four teenage girls killed along with their teacher/coach in a Friday afternoon crash northeast of London as details of the victims became known. Two of the four teenage girls killed in the crash were identified by their softball team as Rowan McLeod and […]
Kincardine News
A recent search warrant executed in Kincardine resulted in the recovery of stolen property, including an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and snowmobile, according to police. On May 2, members of the Grey Bruce Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Huron Perth CSCU, OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), OPP Canine, and the South Bruce Crime Unit, executed a […]
A surge of measles cases on London’s doorstep has led to the first case of the highly infectious disease in Middlesex-London. The case reported Monday by the Middlesex-London Health Unit comes after several reports of measles exposure in London and Strathroy since late January. “The individual was likely exposed while visiting a neighbouring jurisdiction,” the […]
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce says it won’t be shutting down operations. “Despite a lack of funding from the majority of Ontario Provincial Police serviced municipalities at this time, Crime Stoppers is still here to take the public’s tips anonymously as it has since 1987,” the organization said in a Dec. 19 news release. On […]
OWEN SOUND â Three men from the United Kingdom are charged in the 2023 death of an Owen Sound restaurant owner who was assaulted outside his business in a dispute over an unpaid bill. The charges were announced at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Owen Sound by Owen Sound
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce will run out of cash to operate in just over three months. “Without new sources of funding sufficient to take the program through the 2025–2026 fiscal year, Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce would only have enough funding to operate until March 31, 2025, at which
It costs more to live in Grey-Bruce than anywhere else in the province outside of Toronto, according to the 2024 Ontario Living Wage Network’s latest report. A resident of the Grey, Bruce, Perth, Huron, Simcoe region needs to earn $23.05 hours per 40-hour work week to make ends meet this
The Lucknow Sentinel
More people are living outside of the workforce in Grey-Bruce than ever before, according to a new labour report. Nearly 110,000 people within the Stratford-Bruce Economic Region were not a part of the labour force in 2023, which is a historic high according to the Four County Labour Market Planning
The Lucknow Sentinel
The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs, but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began
The Lucknow Sentinel
In October, the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 3.6 per cent, but there are several employment vacancies in the region. “Those who want to work are working,” said Dana Soucie, executive director of the Four Country Labour Market Planning Board. The
The Lucknow Sentinel
A dead crow in Grey-Bruce tested positive for West Nile virus. This is the first bird to test positive for the virus in Grey-Bruce this year. No human cases of the mosquito-borne viral disease had been reported in Ontario or Canada this year, up to Aug. 2, a news release