Category Archives: Local News

It’s a weekend to celebrate the season in Sauble Beach. It is the 31st annual Sauble Beach Winterfest and it runs Friday and Saturday. Events Co-ordinator Shane Sargant says there is something f...

Starting next September — some grade 7 to 12 students in the Bluewater District School Board will not have to walk as far to get to school. Grade 7 and 8 students living 1.6 kilometres or more f...

Hanover Police have laid additional charges in connection with a stabbing we told you about last week. The incident happened last Friday when police were called to the parking lot of the Mac’s M...

The Milk Man Delivers! Michael Schmidt has won a 16 year fight with the government over his right to sell raw milk from his farm-gate. In a Newmarket court Thursday morning — the Durham area far...

World Vision Canada has airlifted nine planeloads full of medical supplies and food to Haiti since Friday, and relief worker Steve Mathews says a lot Haitians are now getting help. In an exclusive int...

Despite a struggling economy Hanover managed to boast fairly decent building activity statistics for 2009. A total of 95 permits were issued with a total construction value of 17.7 million dollars. Ha...

An update now on that fatal crash just west of Walkerton. South Bruce OPP say 47 year old Kevin Kenny of Markham died when his Jeep Patriot crossed the centre line and collided with a transport truck....

The Owen Sound Fire Department has issued charges after a house fire. The fire department was called to an east side home Tuesday night to extinguish a fire in the kitchen after cooking was left unatt...

Kincardine Councillors are planning to lend a helping hand to Haiti. Councillor Guy Anderson suggested a contribution be made to relief efforts in the earthquake struck country. Deputy Mayor Laura Hai...

Georgian Bluffs is getting a great deal on a replacement compactor at its landfill site near Hepworth. The township has been renting a compactor since its old one was destroyed in a fire in August, an...