Category Archives: Local News

Sacred Heart School in Mildmay has won an Ontario ‘School on the Move’ award. The elementary school is one of 25 schools across the province selected for the honour from the Ministry of Ed...

Douglas Bentley is Hanover’s Senior of the Year. Bentley says the honour caught him by surprise — even though he has been volunteering for 35 years now in Hanover — and he has no pla...

We’ve got a high-miler to start off July. South Bruce OPP clocked a motorist on Concesstion 2 East in Brant Township between Hanover and Walkerton at 139 km/h in a posted 80-K zone. This happene...

Grey County OPP are trying to figure out what happened after a tractor struck two females, killing one of them. According to a news release from the OPP — the incident happened on a farm located...

A temporary replacement has been named as the Director of Education for the Bluewater school board. Alana Murray, Superintendent of Secondary Education, has been given the position of Interim Director...

Nobody hurt in a Canada Day fire in Southampton. Eighteen firefighters responded to the call around 5:45 AM Thursday. Fire crews found the second storey of a home on Cole Blvd on fire. They believe th...

Work on replacing the 9th Street bridge across the Sydenham River in Owen Sound will start next week. The project was originally planned to begin in June, but the city has decided it’s better to...

Paid on call firefighters in Georgian Bluffs and part of Meaford have voted in favour of joining a union. The 40 members of the Inter-township Fire Department held the vote under the supervision of th...

The Durham and Community Healthcare Foundation is getting some new land. The South Bruce Grey Health Centre’s Board of Directors has approved the severance and donation of the land to facilitate...

The outgoing chair of the South West Local Health Integration Network has some advice for local hospital boards. Fern Woolcott says people shouldn’t enter the role of hospital board director lig...