If you get the feeling you're in the aftermath of a vampire apocalypse in Kincardine next month, you are. However, it isn't real. It's the cast and crew filming a movie, "Red Spring." Led by Kincardine native Tonya Dodds, producer, filming of the show will begi...
Kincardine council is urging residents to keep faucets running in their homes for another two weeks to help keep waterlines from freezing. At the meeting Wednesday night (April 1), councillor Laura Haight, policy chairperson for water and wastewater systems, told council that the work ...
Tiverton Knox Presbyterian Church News – April 12 - Services will be held at 10 a.m. as of Sunday, April 12 April 18 - Faith Family Team will be hosting a Family Movie Night, Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m., and Adult Games Night, Saturday, April 18, at 7 p.m. April 1...
The Kincardine Fire Department's new rescue vehicle was on display in the parking lot of the Municipal Administrative Centre, Wednesday night, just prior to the Kincardine council meeting. The shiny new red truck, which arrived last Friday from Surrey, British Columbia, will be ope...
Bluewater District School Board staff are encouraged by this week’s release of the board’s 2013-14 graduation rate which stands at 82 per cent. The provincial graduation rate is currently 84 per cent. Spring, 2015, marks the first time that the province has released provinc...
Each year, the Ontario government offers a number of programs to provide summer job opportunities to high school, college or university students looking for work. Last year, more than 100,000 students were able to find jobs or receive help through the summer job programs that t...
The Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority (SVCA) is advising the public to stay well away from local rivers and streams, for safety reasons, particularly over the Easter holiday weekend. River banks at this time of year can be very slippery and unstable. In addition, children can be un...
The South Bruce Grey Health Centre’s Family Birthing Centre, located at the Walkerton hospital, welcomed more than 400 babies in 2014‐2015 (April 1, 2014, to March 31, 2015), setting a new record for the number of births at the facility. The previous year, a record-setting ...
The Kinetic Knights Robotics Team 781 of Kincardine brought home the Engineering Inspiration award from the North Bay Regional last weekend, March 27-28. This FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) award celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and...
(SOUTHERN BRUCE COUNTY, ON) – The South Bruce OPP is starting to receive reports of vehicle collisions with deer across the detachment area. Drivers are offered the following safe driving tips to help reduce the chances of hitting a deer: Be especially attent...
The Bervie Women’s Institute met at the Bervie United Church, April 1, with nine members giving a joke and paying their membership fees. Elsie and Sylvia will attend the membership workshop in Chesley, April 30. Roots of Bruce is April 9-10 in Walkerton with Elsie and San...
OPP looking for 100-per-cent seatbelt compliance over Easter long weekend (ORILLIA, ON) – Seeing seatbelt-related deaths on OPP-patrolled roads shrink to 50 last year (2014) from 120 in 2005, has the OPP optimistic about the growing importance road-users are placing on&...
In an effort to better prepare Kincardine residents, businesses and institutions located around the Bruce Nuclear site, distribution of potassium iodide (KI) tablets will get under way later this year. In committee-of-the-whole last night (April 1), community emergency prepared...
The 20th annual Heart and Stroke Pool Tournament, held March 20-22 at the Sutton Park Inn, has raised $2,774.50 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. This brings the grand total of funds raised over the 20 years, to $115,000. Tournament winners were: "A" Division...
Congratulations to Kate Leppington (L) and Madison Beishuizen for both finishing in first place at the Ripley Legion competition and then AGAIN in Goderich. The next level of competition was in Mount Forest where Kate finished second in the Junior division and Madison was first in the ...
The Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Caucus has asked the provincial government to commit to not levying another misguided tax on the people of Ontario, specifically a carbon tax. This is the second in a series of commitments the PC Caucus is asking of the government in advance...
(ASHFIELD-COLBORNE-WAWANOSH, ON) – A traffic stop near Dungannon Tuesday afternoon, March 31, has led to several charges being laid against a young female driver from Exeter. At approximately 4:15 p.m., a Huron County OPP officer stopped a Suzuki Vitara on Lucknow Line just...
It was a practical exercise in career-related experiential learning for local students at the area’s signature skilled trades event of the year. Georgian College, Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and St. Mary’s High School in Owen Sound were competition sites...
The Bruce Grey MedLINCS (Medical Learning in Community Settings, formerly MedQUEST) committee is looking for all former program participants in order to invite them to the 10th Anniversary Celebration, July 11. If you were a participant or are a family member or friend of a par...
POLICE INVESTIGATING PROPERTY DAMAGE (TEESWATER, ON) – March 26, at 2 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received a report of property damage to the soccer field at Sacred Heart School along Gordon Street in Teeswater. Sometime between 4 p.m. March 24, and 6 a.m. March 26...
(HURON EAST, ON) - Passing a police cruiser at nearly double the speed limit is what a 31-year-old driver of Goderich will have to answer to in traffic court come this May. March 28, shortly before 11 a.m., a Huron County OPP officer was travelling eastbound on Huron Road n...
Q: I heard there is a new prescription drug coming soon to the United States for weight loss. What can you tell me about it? A: The “new” drug is to be called Saxenda but the only novel things about this drug are the name, the dose and the indication for weight loss. You se...
Is March going out like a lion? A number of folks in the area were with hydro Sunday evening after the snowstorm hit. Last Monday, the Bruce United Church Women (UCW) Presbyterial Annual General Meeting was hosted by St. John’s UCW at Clifford. Rev. Jessica and Rev. Micol...
VEHICLE WINDOWS DAMAGED IN GODERICH (GODERICH, ON) – Huron County OPP officers are seeking information from the public to help solve a recent rash of mischief cases that has been occurring in the Town of Goderich. Thursday, March 26, Huron County OPP officers we...
A capacity crowd filled the Tiverton Sports Complex Saturday night, in support of Lindsey Gossell. The 19-year-old daughter of Danny and Elaine Gossell of Tiverton, had just completed her first semester of the personal support worker program at Lambton College in Sarnia last ...
People have to learn about the proposed Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for used-nuclear fuel, in order to make informed decisions about the project. That's the priority for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) which continues its work on the Adaptive Phased Manage...
On the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the Rwanda genocide, Allan Thompson will be making a presentation at the Goderich United Church, Tuesday, April 7, on the role of the media during those tragic events. Now the federal Liberal candidate in Huron-Bruce, Thompson was a...
(HURON COUNTY, ON) – Members of the OPP Anti-Rackets Branch remind everyone to be aware of the many E-mail scams criminals use to commit identity theft and other crimes. Phishing is any E-mail falsely claiming to be from an established legitimate organization such as a fi...
Suspension notices have gone out for 1,762 students across Grey and Bruce counties. Issued by the Grey Bruce Health Unit, the notices require parents to provide proof of immunization for their child. If proof of immunization or a valid philosophical or medical exemption is not provide...
Officials with the South Bruce Grey Health Centre and the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health have signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen the development of rural health research initiatives. The two organizations convened at the Walkerton hospital site Friday (March 2...
Easter morning there will be a sunrise service at St. Andrews Park in Tiverton at 7:30 a.m., followed by breakfast at Knox Presbyterian Church. The regular Sunday service will be at 10:30 a.m. Easter Sunday, but as of Sunday, April 12, the church service will commence ...
After 41 years in downtown Kincardine, barber Kevin Bradley of Snip 'n Clip closed his door for the final time, Friday afternoon. He is moving his business to his home, north of Millarton, at 1863 Sideroad 10, where he will continue cutting hair Tuesdays and Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 5 ...
Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb has announced his office is hosting two more passport clinics - in Walkerton and Brussels. So far, this year, Lobb has held three passport clinics, assisting more than 400 constituents with their passports. The next clinic will be held Wednesday, April ...
HURON OPP DISTRACTED DRIVING CAMPAIGN RESULTS (HURON COUNTY, ON) – Last week, the OPP wrapped up its province-wide Distracted Driving Campaign which ran from March 14-20. Huron County OPP saw a total of 58 drivers charged with Distracted Driving during the campaign. &nbs...
The Kincardine Sparks and Brownies welcomed spring, Tuesday night, by making beautiful bouquets and sporting splendid bonnets. The girls and their parents are glad the weather has improved and the snow is melting away, as they gear up for the spring cookie campaign, selling boxes of ch...
It's a "Long Way to Tipperary" but it's not far to Blyth for "Songs of Wartime and Peace" with the Blyth Festival Singers and their special guests, The Howlin' Dog Vintage Jazz Band of Kincardine. Join the singers, April 12 at 3 p.m., for a tribute conce...
The famously-private Alice Munro welcomed Huron-Bruce federal Liberal candidate Allan Thompson into her Clinton home Sunday afternoon and spent close to an hour around the kitchen table, chatting about politics, writing and other topics. Thompson, a former Toronto Star journalist, desc...
Aibhlin (Avy) Mowle of Kincardine is quite an artist. And this past week, her artwork was used on a concert poster in Australia. The connection between these two sides of the world happened in 2013 when Avy became Internet friends with Bonnie Ward of Melton, Australia, through the webs...
Kincardine council has been granted no extension on the multi-million-dollar Inverhuron water and sewer project. In March, 2009, the project received two-thirds funding from the provincial and federal governments though the Building Canada Fund - Communities Component. Following a l...
OPP wraps up Distracted Driving Campaign (March 14-20) (SOUTHERN BRUCE COUNTY, ON) – The OPP wrapped up its Distracted Driving Campaign with strong support from the public, the media and other valued road-safety partners who, throughout the campaign, remained heavily engaged in t...