Author Archives: Laura Hampshire

Spring officially arrives this weekend. The spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere occurs at 5:37 A.M. EDT tomorrow (Saturday) morning. It occurs when the Sun crosses the equator line, heading nort...

The City of Orillia presented more than $66,000 in grants to two new projects in the City's core through the first intake of the 2021 Downtown Tomorrow Community Improvement Plan (DTCIP) grant program...

A team of six from Georgian's paramedic programs is travelling to a fly-in Indigenous community in northern Ontario to administer COVID-19 vaccinations. Georgian is the only college in Ontario to part...

Seventy-seven acres of wilderness along the Black River in Dalton Township is now permanently protected by The Couchiching Conservancy, thanks to a donation by the Marley family. Located 17 kilometres...

Tokyo Smoke has opened its new retail cannabis location in Barrie. It is the first cannabis shop for local resident and store owner, Richard Bailey. The new store will also be the first cannabis retai...

Ramara Township is celebrating Easter with a fun, family scavenger hunt contest called 'Eggsplore Ramara.' It will take families around to twelve surprise locations which will be released 3 times a da...

The City of Barrie is recognizing Transit Driver Appreciation Day today by saying thank you to the many drivers who show up each day, even amid a pandemic, to get people to where they need to be. In a...

More ice-breaking operations in Midland this week. The Canadian Coast Guard is advising residents that the CCGS Samuel Risley will be carrying out icebreaking operations in the area on or around March...

A traffic stop in Tay Township has resulted in the arrest of a suspected impaired driver. Police say a vehicle was stopped for a traffic violation on Highway 12 near Pine Street on Tuesday night. The ...

Registration is now open for the 24th Annual Soldiers' Hospital Not-So-Classic. It has transitioned to a hybrid event for 2021 that offers participants the opportunity to golf and dine on their own ti...