Mitchell is hosting a 150th anniversary homecoming this summer and the “welcome home for fun…
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Junior Development ball program wraps up for 2024 season
LISTOWEL – Listowel Minor Baseball’s Junior Development Program finished up last week as the…
Howick Fire station recognizes department members with awards
GORRIE - The Howick Fire Department recently held an awards ceremony, recognizing those in the department for a job well done.
Bluevale Homecoming 2024 promises ‘a Dam Good Time’
The community of Bluevale is set to celebrate 170 years of community history.
OPP ratify contract including raises of 2.75 to 4.75% over four years
Perth County OPP officers, along with uniform and civilian counterparts across the province, ratified a four-year collective agreement on July 18 making its members the highest paid police force in the province.
Why let the tourists have all the fun?
It has come to the attention of a lot of us that the best deals on everything from retail to entertainment are probably found right here at home.
Listowel Lightning finish first at July 20 swim meet at home pool
The Listowel Lightning swim team finished on top of the standings at the second regional meet of the season, held at at the Listowel Kinsmen Pool on July 20.
Farming Fast Forward: delivering a sermon at the fair
The theme for the 2024 Fair was Farming Fast Forward. I had the privilege to deliver the sermon at…
Canada’s soccer stars work to overcome impact of ‘Dronegate’
With every Olympic Games there are stories of triumph and disappointment and the 33rd Olympiad currently underway in Paris will be no different.
Resort to Murder is hilariously horrific and terrifyingly tremendous
Murder and humour don’t usually go together. Perhaps the only exception is in Resort to Murder by Brigitte Solem, on stage at the Blyth Festival Theatre’s Memorial Hall.
Turnbacks: August 1
TEN YEARS AGO 2014 – The award for the best-themed float at the Listowel Fair parade went to the…
Concerned parents of Westfield E.S. students calling for principal to resign over school-wide rainbow photo
A group of over 100 parents on the Facebook group titled Concerned Parents of Westfield E.S. are distraught with the way the school’s principal coordinated a school-wide rainbow photo in support of Pride Month on June 27.
Wingham Advance Times Aug. 1, 2024 turnbacks
1924 - “Scottie” Ross brought a bunch of about as nice looking speckled trout as we have even seen, into our office on Thursday morning. He went out good and early and just where he went is his own business evidently for he is not telling anyone. He caught nineteen beauties, but we can’t vouch for h
Two youth arrested after altercation in Listowel
NORTH PERTH – Police are looking for witnesses and possible video after an altercation in North…
‘God willin’ and the creek don’t rise’
A lot of our communities have stormwater and sewer systems that would qualify as antiques, were they cars.
