Category Archives: Local News

Grey County is going ahead with a salary based system for Council remuneration. The system will cover the wages of the Warden and Councillors while at Council meetings, committee meetings, and other o...

The only thing keeping the 2009 Huron-Kinloss budget from passing is setting the tax rate. Council went over a couple of options offered by Treasurer Jodi MacArthur at Monday night’s meeting. On...

A visual display by Georgian College students has been presented at Queen’s Park. Early Childhood Education student Annya Pucan created the mural, which is covered with over 35-hundred hand prin...

The deputy Mayor of Brockton has been charged in the theft of money from the liquor store he managed. 52 year old Rollie Anstett faces charges of theft under five thousand dollars and breach of trust....

Relief for Owen Sound developers and home buyers. City Council has waived development charges for the remainder of 2009. The seven to nine thousand dollar development charge on newly purchased homes i...

Thousands of daffodils are brightening up homes and businesses across the region on this grey and snowy April day. The annual Daffodil Campaign for the Bluewater Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society wr...

Kincardine Council has arrived at a budget increase of just over six percent, and it looks like council will soon be giving it final approval. Mayor Larry Kraemer says the they have been keeping taxes...

The numbers are crunched and Hanover has set its 2009 Budget. Mayor Kathi Maskell believes residents will be satisfied with this years budget. The 10.3 million dollar budget represents a 1.3 percent t...

There are better days ahead. So says senior climatologist with Environment Canada David Phillips. Phillips suggests this latest spat of winter-like weather in Bruce and Grey counties is likely the ...

Another storage unit on MacKenzie Road in Port Elgin has been hit by thieves. Saugeen Shores police say a renter check his storage unit last Thursday and found that the lock had been replaced. After c...