The For Our Youth (FOY) club gathered on April 26 for a chilly but productive meeting at one of our favourite locations — the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG). We saw some familiar faces at the March Break Ripley and District Horticultural Society meeting, but stormy winter weather prevented us from getting together in February, […]

A jury was chosen Friday to hear the high-profile trial of five former Team Canada world junior hockey players charged with sexual assault. A jury of nine women and five men was picked over the course of the day. A man and a woman were picked as alternate jurors. As was explained to the jury […]

Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state and advanced age. As early as 2015, Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was […]

The much-anticipated sexual assault trial of five players from the 2018 Canadian world junior hockey team is expected to begin Tuesday morning. Jury selection is slated to start at 10 a.m. at the London courthouse for a Superior Court of Justice trial that’s slated to last eight weeks. The charges are linked to a Hockey […]

The Kincardine Power U15 rep team travelled to Mitchell on April 12 to compete in their year-end tournament — and they brought the heat! With a bye in the first round, Kincardine faced off against Port Elgin in the second. After two intense 15-minute halves, Kincardine came out on top with a hard-fought 25–21 victory […]

WOODSTOCK – A Woodstock bar owner says she won’t fight a proposal by Ontario’s alcohol regulator to ban the sale of booze at the bar for two months after the agency investigated the death of a patron who allegedly was served 17 beers. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario said Thursday it had issued […]