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Pauline Kerr

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.

Walkerton Music in the Park returns for summer

Pauline Kerr July 3, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

A LITTLE BIT OF HE SAID SHE SAID.

Canada Day celebrations planned in Brockton

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Summer of 2025 kicks off with Canada Day festivities on Tuesday, July 1.

County council hears how Ontario Health Team proposes to connect local residents with primary care

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Lindsay Johnston, executive director of the Grey Bruce Ontario Health Team, provided Bruce County council with an update on recent work by the OHT with regards to primary care.

Joe Dietrich acclaimed 2025-2026 chair of SBGHC board of directors

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

ELMWOOD - This year’s annual meeting of the board of directors of South Bruce Grey Health Centre on June 18 had a different tone from last year’s meeting.

Chepstow celebrates Funfest Weekend on the diamonds

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

CHEPSTOW - This year’s Chepstow Funfest Weekend had a bit of everything, including a two-hour rain delay on Saturday, and the first really steamy day of the season on Sunday.

Anne O’Malley celebrates 101st birthday

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Anne O’Malley celebrated her 101st birthday on Sunday, June 22 – her calendar birthday - with a family party at Maple Court in Walkerton.

Great day for Golf Fore Saugeen Hospice event

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Everything went beautifully for this year’s Golf Fore Saugeen Hospice event at the Walkerton Golf and Curling Club on June 17.

County endorses IPM terms of reference for municipal role

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Jeff Loney, economic development manager, presented the staff report that is a follow-up from previous meetings about the International Plowing Match (IPM) organization’s communication structure and the municipal role within it.

Priority has to be good government for Canadians

Pauline Kerr June 26, 2025Columns, Walkerton Herald-Times

There are all kinds of theories about why American president Donald Trump did not attend the final day of the G7. No one quite buys the official story, that he was too busy with events in the Middle East.

Bruce County approves Tax Increment Equivalent Funding program

Pauline Kerr June 25, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - At its June 19 meeting, Bruce County Council approved the Tax Equivalent Increment Funding (TIEF) program.

Walkerton fire hall touch-a-truck event

Pauline Kerr June 19, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

Lights! Sirens! Action. There was plenty of all three at the June 14 touch-a-truck event and breakfast at the Walkerton fire hall.

Leave the MAGA hats at home, thank you

Pauline Kerr June 19, 2025Columns, Walkerton Herald-Times

The tourist season is almost here, a time when scenic midwestern Ontario’s population bursts at the seams with visitors, some just passing through, others here for only a couple of days, and quite a few for the whole summer.

Father’s Day at the Cargill Community Centre

Pauline Kerr June 19, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

Hundreds of hungry dads and their families gathered at the Cargill Community Centre on June 15 for the Father’s Day Brunch.

Brockton to contribute to memorial garden at WDCS

Pauline Kerr June 19, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - From the moment the community learned of the heartbreaking tragedy that occurred on May 23, the municipality has done what it could to provide support to Walkerton District Community School (WDCS) and the families of students Rowan McLeod, Olivia Rourke, Kaydance Ford and Danica Baker, a

Council gets preview of new Walkerton Official Plan

Pauline Kerr June 19, 2025News, Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Brockton Council got a preview of what the new Walkerton Official Plan and Municipality-wide Zoning Bylaw will look like.

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“Erie Belle” blows up off Kincardine

KINCARDINE - On Nov. 21, 1883 the “Erie Belle” was destroyed in a boiler explosion two miles south of Kincardine.

McGugan briefs Huron County Council on amalgamation pitfalls

GODERICH – “The bottom line is that we expect this amalgamation to be more costly for the…

See all Kincardine area articles.

Still reaching for that flag

Unlike minor hockey, when it comes to international economics, when you’ve got them on the ropes, you have to keep hitting. And Prime Minister Mark Carney seems intent on doing that. 

Panthers senior beach volleyball wrap-up

LISTOWEL – Panthers senior girls volleyball teams played their final beach volleyball games…

See all Listowel area articles.

Still reaching for that flag

Unlike minor hockey, when it comes to international economics, when you’ve got them on the ropes, you have to keep hitting. And Prime Minister Mark Carney seems intent on doing that. 

Teeswater arena roof repair approved as council opts for lower-cost fix

TEESWATER – A lower-cost roof repair will move ahead at the Teeswater-Culross Community Centre after council approved a $37,940 project that addresses current leaks while keeping the door open for a larger replacement if provincial funding is approved.

See all Mildmay area articles.

Still reaching for that flag

Unlike minor hockey, when it comes to international economics, when you’ve got them on the ropes, you have to keep hitting. And Prime Minister Mark Carney seems intent on doing that. 

Steve Travale elected to the 2026/28 AMO board of directors

OTTAWA – Steve Travale, Brockton council member, has been elected to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) board of directors’ rural caucus.

See all Walkerton area articles.

Council strikes committee for future of Galbraith Memorial Gates

It was discussed by council that the importance of these gates being a war memorial, and multiple members of council having heard inquiries from the community on the memorial’s future, spurred this action forward. 

Council approves garden suite, bylaw a 10-year timeline

Morris-Turnberry council approved a garden suite agreement and authorized establishing a 10-year temporary-use bylaw, amended from the previously used 20-year timeline.

See all Wingham area articles.

Editorial

Still reaching for that flag

Unlike minor hockey, when it comes to international economics, when you’ve got them on the ropes, you have to keep hitting. And Prime Minister Mark Carney seems intent on doing that. 

Learning from Ignatieff, Pierre’s son, ‘Titanic’

“If this is the direction the rats are going, that’s good enough for me.”

Here we go again with the value of the Sunshine List

If you read last week’s Listowel Banner you will have seen that North Perth Coun. Allan Rothwell, a retired government employee, thinks the public salary disclosure (also known as the Sunshine List) needs to be adjusted for inflation.

Columnists

Council strikes committee for future of Galbraith Memorial Gates

By Rachel Hammermueller

It was discussed by council that the importance of these gates being a war memorial, and multiple members of council having heard inquiries from the community on the memorial’s future, spurred this action forward. 

Council approves garden suite, bylaw a 10-year timeline

By Rachel Hammermueller

Morris-Turnberry council approved a garden suite agreement and authorized establishing a 10-year temporary-use bylaw, amended from the previously used 20-year timeline.

Conservation consolidation limits representation for local counties

By Denny Scott

After months of pushback from local lower- and upper-tier councils, the Province of Ontario released the ‘Improving Ontario’s Conservation Authority System’ document, detailing the amalgamation of the province’s conservation authorities.

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