In 1878, a 178-foot ship full of rye encountered fierce winds, stuck a shoal, and sank. A shipwreck enthusiast found the ship and 36,000 bushels of rye that went down […]
The December snows haven’t arrived. We’ve had green Christmases before and still celebrated Jesus’ birth just fine. As I descended the stairs, I thought about the depiction of the shepherds guarding their flocks in the cold and snow. Was it cold and snowy in that part of the world? I didn’t know, but I doubted […]
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce says it won’t be shutting down operations. “Despite a lack of funding from the majority of Ontario Provincial Police serviced municipalities at this time, Crime Stoppers is still here to take the public’s tips anonymously as it has since 1987,” the organization said in a Dec. 19 news release. On […]
More than 70 ships have plunged to the bottom of the Great Lakes during November. Among them was the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell, which went down in 1966 and claimed […]
On Thursday, Canada announced that land near the Lake Huron shoreline will not be used to permanently bury its spent nuclear fuel. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization instead narrowed its […]
On November 12, 1878, the James R. Bentley was sailing across Lake Huron when a fierce storm blew in and took the schooner down. Now, after spending the past 146 […]