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Montgomery Industrial Services has committed $10,000 to the Caring Together campaign, a community-based fundraiser for the purchase of a CT scanner for the Wingham and District Hospital.
“As a family-owned business working in Wingham for over 30 years, we know how important it is to have key services, like the hospital, available in the community,” said Honey Montgomery, during a recent visit to the hospital to present the donation alongside Paul Montgomery.
“We are so glad to have the Montgomerys join the many local businesses who have supported this campaign. This generous donation brings us one step closer to reaching our goal,” said Mark Foxton, campaign chair. Read More

Near the end of July, Bragg Farm will open the first of its two huge fields of sunflowers to the public where a maze has been mowed into the shape of a pair of sunflower heads. Read More

There is a 100 per cent chance of weather, and there is a good chance that someone is going to make money off of it, a decent chance that they will be wrong, and less and less chance that any human is involved to blame. Read More

MORRISBURG – Visitors to the 2024 Battle of Crysler’s Farm re-enactment July 6-7 did double and even triple takes when they walked past Dr. Greg Baran’s front-line surgery. Read More

The Apostle Islands could soon become Wisconsin’s first national park, thanks to an effort by several federal lawmakers. Becoming a national park would attract more people to the Apostle Islands, sharing the natural beauty of the islands and shores of Lake Superior. Read the full story the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

For nearly 40 years, the New York Department of Conservation considered the Lake Ontario shoreline from Webster to Parma, New York, to be an Area of Concern (AOC). After four decades of restoration work, regulators recommend removing the lakeshore from the AOC list. Read the full story by WHEC-TV – Rochester, NY.

Researchers have ranked the top 10 most invasive species in the Great Lakes based on the havoc they cause in the ecosystem and their impacts on humans. Read the full story by Newsweek.

As weather patterns shift, blue-green algal blooms are appearing in areas where they wouldn’t commonly occur. Researchers from the Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research in Windsor, Ontario, are working to understand blooms in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the CBC.

Lake Erie will soon host a pioneering water treatment process, the first of its kind in the U.S., thanks to a partnership involving the Cleveland Water Alliance and a South Korean tech company. Avon Lake Regional Water in Ohio was selected as the testing site. Read the full story by The Morning Journal.

Birds that grow up dining from Saginaw Bay, Michigan, and other polluted Great Lakes sites are far more likely to be infertile, lay eggs with embryos that don’t survive, or raise chicks that fail to develop, according to recent research. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

According to a color analysis of satellite imagery of lakes around the world, Lake Ontario holds the top spot for the bluest lake. Lake Superior ranks second. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

Activists gathered to mark the anniversary of the 2010 oil spill near Marshall, Michigan, where a ruptured pipeline released about a million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River. Activists admonished the pipeline’s owner for its safety record and current plans for the Line 5 pipeline in northern Michigan. Read the full story by Michigan Public.