Author Archives: Jill Charlebois
Bruce County Committee Approves Revision For Proposed Port Elgin Subdivision
Bruce County's planning committee has approved a major revision for a subdivision planned in Saugeen Shores. The application was for 20 residential units and would include a mix of housing types. The ...
Jul 15, 2022 (image from Bruce County council agenda)
GRACE Introduces Equine Assisted Learning Program
The Georgian Riding Association for Challenged Equestrians has launched a new program to help anyone with communication or mental health issues. Their Equine Assisted Learning program allows individua...
Jul 11, 2022 A photo of EAL students going through a teamwork exercise (photo courtesy of GRACE)
Bruce County Human Services Moving Forward With Homelessness Plan
Bruce County Human Services was able to give a progress report this week on their 2021 Housing & Homelessness Plan. So far this year, Phase 1 of the Affordable Housing Development Toolkit was comp...
Jul 11, 2022
Rogers CEO Apologizes For Outage; Voices Concern For Inability To Contact Emergency Services
Rogers Communications President and CEO Tony Staffieri says that the company is investigating the cause of Friday's service outage that cut off users from cell phone and internet access and brought bu...
Jul 10, 2022
OPP Hoping Passengers Speak Up Against Distracted Driving
The OPP is asking passengers to get involved in the fight against distracted driving. Acting Sergeant Terri-Ann Pencarinha says she's seen too many tragic crashes caused by a driver texting behind the...
Jul 10, 2022 (Image source: wired.com)
Three Youth Charged With Assault After Victim Shot With Orbeez Gun
OPP in Caledon have charged three youth with assault with a weapon after the accused discharged their Orbeez firearms at an innocent victim. Back on June 28th, OPP responded to a call of a person shot...
Jul 10, 2022
Georgian College Holding Virtual Events
Georgian College will be offering virtual events for anyone looking to attend college this fall. The program is called Get to Know Georgian and will have virtual events on Tuesday, July 12th, and Tues...
Jul 10, 2022 Georgian Logo
Orangeville Man Charged With Robbery Of Alliston Pharmacy
OPP have laid charges after the robbery of a pharmacy in Alliston. On Friday afternoon, police received a call that a man had gone into the pharmacy, told employees that he had a gun, and demanded nar...
Jul 10, 2022 OPP Logo
Roger Unsure Why Failsafes Stopped Working
It was a long day not just for Rogers users, but seemingly everyone, thanks to an outage of Rogers wireless and internet services. For most of yesterday, cell phones, home and business internet servic...
Jul 09, 2022
Grey Bruce Health Reports First Confirmed Case Of Monkeypox
The Grey Bruce Health Unit is confirming the first case of monkeypox in the region. The person diagnosed with the illness resides in Grey-Bruce but likely acquired the infection while visiting the Gre...
Jul 08, 2022