Walkerton Herald-Times

WALKERTON - Brockton is once again partnering with Bruce County for the Spruce the Bruce program, which launched for 2026 on Feb. 2. 

OWEN SOUND - The Government of Ontario is supporting three health care services in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound with over $2.2 million in new funding to reduce waiting times for diagnostic and surgical services. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Paul Vickers announced the funding in a press released issued Monday.

The following is the final sinstallment of a Herald-Times review of events and images from 2025. 

There are times while parenting small kids that you are abruptly reminded of the simple joys of life. I say abruptly, but also somehow the reminders are always perfectly timed in some divine, mythological way that we don’t understand in the moment.

WALKERTON - The meeting of Bruce County Council originally scheduled for Feb. 5 has been rescheduled to Feb. 12.

GREY-BRUCE - Last month, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) released the report, Municipalities Under Pressure One Year Later: An Update on the Human and Financial Cost of Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis.

WALKERTON - Kapil Aggarwal, vice president of nuclear sustainability at Ontario Power Generation (OPG), along with Erik Rogerson, director of operations and maintenance, and Brent Fisher, senior manager of corporate relations, made a presentation to Bruce County Council in January...

To the Editor: The Bank of Montreal has announced it is abandoning branch service in Mildmay and Walkerton. No counter service. No ATM. No human beings. Just a locked door, a press release, and a suggestion that we all “go online.”

WALKERTON - Euchre results from Wednesday, Jan. 28 at the Walkerton library.

Canada’s wetlands are not scenery. They are working infrastructure, and one of the country’s most underused economic assets.

There’s nothing more disheartening than calling a company for help and being met with the flat, emotionless voice of an artificial intelligence (AI) operator, programmed with a narrow list of options it insists will “assist” you.

We have just passed – hopefully unscathed – the dreaded Blue Monday. The third Monday of January is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year, for many reasons.