Wingham Advance Times

Council held its first 2025 budget meeting on Feb. 29, approving in principle a 3.15 per cent tax levy increase, which translates to an additional $236,000 in taxation.

Thanks to assistance from the community, a missing nine-year-old from Howick Township was found within a day of being reported missing.

North Huron council has agreed to a Service Canada request for a space to operate a monthly scheduled outreach site after Avon Maitland School Board (AMSB) decided not to renew its employment services contract with Employment Ontario beyond Mar. 31.

The OPP Anti-Rackets Branch and Serious Fraud Office are launching the 2025 Fraud Prevention Month campaign: “The Masks of Fraud.” 

Numerous watermain breaks resulted in impacts being felt throughout Teeswater recently, with the breaks happening under and around Bruce Road 6. 

Council here went by the book, so to speak, in the case of a ‘vicious dog,’ continuing the saga of related bylaw cases, primarily occurring in Belgrave. 

STRATFORD - ONE CARE Home and Community Support Services has announced the launch of its Driven to Care campaign, with a goal of raising $500,000 though efforts including a 50/50 draw to purchase three new much-needed accessible vehicles.

I’ve got a bad habit of doing this, but I’m going to add a provision to this editorial before we even get into it and break the rules right away and tell you my political leanings. I’m pretty much dead in the centre most days. So I can usually find common grounds, politically, with most people most

Ontario has a new government. Although it may look a lot like the old one, there are profound differences.

So what did that accomplish?

HOWICK - Council here passed its 2025 municipal budget bylaw at its Feb. 25 meeting.