WALKERTON - The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest kids and teens recreational reading program.This initiative offers reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages.
Bus stopped – twice – for driving on closed highway, reported by passenger
KINCARDINE - South Bruce OPP are reminding people that it’s not only dangerous to drive on a closed road, it’s also illegal.
How a good samaritan saved Christmas, returned lost $300
LISTOWEL - On Dec. 20, a good samaritan saved the Christmas gift from an out-of-town visitor.
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Mystery house: Listowel’s Evergreen Lodge
As a history buff, I love learning about the past and the people and places around us. What I really get excited about is when I learn something that has perhaps disappeared from someone’s memory or from a town’s records. I think this is what happened with my “mystery house.”
Spreading New Year’s cheer in 1905
On this postcard from the collections at Stratford-Perth Archives, we see a rather underdressed young fellow arriving in December 1905 to spread New Year’s cheer. Besides sending greetings to friends and family through the mail, how else was the arrival of 1906 marked around Perth County?
100.1FM The Ranch, Listowel Legion to host community lunch fundraiser for local food banks
LISTOWEL - 100.1 The Ranch has teamed up with the Listowel Legion to help fill the food bank shelves after Christmas.
Special Advisors update work regarding the Board of Health for the Grey Bruce Heath Unit
GREY BRUCE - A third update on the work of Special Advisors to the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, in respect of the Grey Bruce Health Unit, was recently detailed in a press release.
OPP lay 269 impaired charges during RIDE
ORILLIA - The annual Festive RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign saw nearly 300 drivers facing impaired driving charges from 3,095 RIDE events in the west region.
Traditional start to the new year in Brockton, despite weather
Brockton got 2026 off to a great start.
Hanover Community Players look forward to new season after School of Rock wraps up
HANOVER - The Hanover Community Players recently completed the final show of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock. The production ran from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3 and completed its run with a large audience at the final show.
Minto cancels Fire and Ice New Years Eve event in Palmerston
PALMERSTON - Due to current and forecasted weather conditions, the Town of Minto, in consultation with the County of Wellington Emergency Measures staff, cancelled the Fire Ice New Year’s Eve event planned for this evening, Dec. 31.
Coldest Night of the Year returns to Wingham in February
United Way Perth-Huron (UWPH) is inviting residents of northern Huron to register for the fifth annual Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY) walk.
OPP seeking help identifying individuals in break and enters
LISTOWEL - Perth County OPP are requesting the public’s assistance with identifying three persons of interest in relation to repeat break and enters that occurred in Listowel on Dec. 14 and 16.
Trapping is harmful to the environment
My mother Brenda Sharpe, over 30 years ago, had the privilege and honour to communicate with R. L. Lawrence. He was the Renown Naturalist, a Canadian Author, and expert on wildlife and nature of Canada, to his credit he had written over 30 books on the subject.
