South Bruce’s dairy club held its second meeting on May 20 at Character Holsteins in Deemerton, near Mildmay. Character Holsteins is a dairy farm that specializes in producing elite genetics for the Semex breeding company. The meeting started in the calving barn, where Greg Dietrich, co-owner of Character Holsteins, gave the club some background on […]






May is always a particularly busy month for the Ripley and District Horticultural Society (RDHS) as members plant the large tubs of annuals that appear around the village, clean up public gardens and host a plant sale on the long weekend. The cool spring has forced the group to put some planting on hold and […]






A second jury has been dismissed and the case will be proceeding by judge alone at the sexual assault trial of five players from Canada’s championship-winning 2018 world junior hockey team. 





London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus.   Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]