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For over 40 years, the Listowel Cyclones have been the apex of junior hockey in the immediate area, with recruiting players from outside the borders of the town crucial to the organization’s success both on and off the ice.

The Elma U7, U9 and U13 Avengers squads were in action in their year-end tournaments in Milverton and Monkton on July 30.

At its July 24 meeting, a request for proposal (RFP) was tendered for the Listowel Memorial Arena Park ‘59 (MAP59) project for consulting services for the park’s developments. Jeff Newell, manager of facilities, presented the report for council’s consideration.

Housing was a topic of discussion at the July 24 North Perth council meeting as Jessica McLean, manager of strategic initiatives for the municipality, presented a draft Housing Action Plan for the purpose of applying to the Housing Accelerator Fund.

Zoe Battams-Somers, 9, supplemented a Saturday afternoon stroll with a quick woodpile climb at Listowel District Secondary School on July 29.

In the summer of 1953, Perth County celebrated one hundred years of existence as an independent municipality. In the days leading up to a grand anniversary party, the Stratford newspaper traced the county’s history back to the 1820s when the Canada Company hacked a road through the Huron Tract and b

Part of North Perth Public Library’s summer programming is Friday Fun, which is a free drop-in program between 1-4 p.m. on Fridays at NPPL’s Listowel branch. It is available for kids ages five and up with no pre-registration required. Friday Fun runs until Aug. 18. Pictured: Autumn Campbell, 7, look

For Listowel’s Aubrey Nauta, competing at this year’s Dance World Cup in Braga, Portugal was the culmination of an entire junior career’s worth of hard work and dedication to a craft she began at the age of two.

A new all-way stop will be coming to a highly- used intersection in Listowel.

At its July 10 meeting, a discussion surrounding the ward boundaries was held on the agenda as a report from the consultants hired to conduct the review were present to report on the first segment of the two-phased project.

‘Outfoxed’ was one of four high-powered car crushing, mud-mashing machines on display at the Listowel Agricultural Fairgrounds on Saturday, July 29 as part of the Monster Trucks All Out Tour that rolled into town. Attendees were lined up in vehicles all the way through the downtown core and well bey

The Maitland Conservation (MC) board members recently held an information session, exploring ways to engage with the Indigenous and Métis communities whose traditional territory they acknowledge as part of the MC coverage area.

A colony of little brown myotis bats currently living at the Wawanosh Valley Conservation Area (WVCA) has to move this fall, but they have a beautiful new bat condo to move to that is large enough to house 3,000 bats.

Hot, humid weather in this part of the country often means thunderstorms, and those sometimes spawn tornadoes. We’re now in peak tornado season, and have been hearing the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) mentioned by the media with increasing frequency.