Lisa Thompson of the PC Party will now serve her third consecutive term as Huron-Bruce s Member of Provincial Parliament after a decisive victory in the June 7 election.
Wingham played host to the Musical Muskrat Festival over the weekend and although it was a bit of a wet weekend, there was plenty to do and see for residents and visitors alike.
North Huron Council has taken the first step towards replacing the Wingham Police Service with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) by looking to determine and fund the disbandment of the former.
The Blyth Legion held its annual decoration service at Blyth Union Cemetery on Sunday. Members of the local Branch paraded the colours into the cemetery on the sunny, windy day and then the service was conducted by Ernest Dow of Huron Chapel
At first glance, you see a complex image of a natural scene. Is it an oil painting, acrylic or watercolour? On closer examination the viewer is surprised to find that every element of the extraordinary piece before them is made up...
After nearly seven years of hard work, a Londesborough man has reached purple belt status in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), which has been called the most frustrating belt in jiu-jitsu.
The Pigeon King truly is the Blyth Festival at its best. The show showcases much of the Festival s greatest achievements in the world of Canadian theatre all in one show.
Saturday was reserved for the annual Brussels Ball Day in the village with several games played at the Brussels Optimist Ballpark over the course of the day, culminating in a contest between the Brussels Tigers and the Wingham Hitmen
Last week with the announcement of the nominations for the 2018 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Toronto theatre, a number of Blyth Festival alumni found themselves up for awards.
An Accessibility Advisory Committee is required by the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) legislation in cities, counties or townships where the resident population is greater than 10,000.
As part of its official relaunch earlier this month, the Taste of Huron hosted two special tours last week showing off some of the best food in the county.
Renowned musician Tommy Hunter, known as Canada s Country Gentleman , was in Blyth Saturday night as he was honoured by the Barn Dance Society with its Pioneer Award.
The Ontario West Regional Dog Agility Championship was held at the Regional Equine and Agricultural Centre of Huron (REACH) in Clinton over the weekend.
Visitors to downtown Blyth may have discovered a new food option on the main drag with Cherrey s Dog House setting up shop in the municipal parking lot in front of Blyth Food Market.
Lisa Harper is entering her fifth season as the Audience Services Manager at the Blyth Festival and the Blyth resident who grew up in Huron and Bruce Counties says she really feels like the village and the theatre are where she is meant to be.
With major renovation and expansion of the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre on the horizon, the recreation board is looking to strike two new committees.
The Citizen was honoured provincially on Friday night with a first-place finish in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association s Better Newspapers Competition.
Five nonagenarians who attended Grade 1 together at USS #3 near Molesworth gathered for their semi-annual meeting last Friday in Brussels, sharing stories of their lives, their descendants, their neighbours and reminiscing about the past.
The Run for Mental Health Awareness was held in Seaforth on Saturday with dozens making their way through the town, all in the name of raising money and awareness for mental health initiatives.
Convicted fraudster Arlan Galbraith is the main character of The Pigeon King play that premiered at the Blyth Festival last season. However, as the theatre prepares for a remount of the hit play, the actor who plays Galbraith says...
Working out of her home at RR1, Londesborough, Sally Rhoads-Heinrich and her company Surrogacy in Canada Online have helped hundreds of families to grow since 2001.
Gil Garratt and Rachael King of the Blyth Festival are back from the annual Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) conference in Ottawa invigorated and encouraged.
Last week, The Hullett Central Public School Advisory Council s (SAC) carnival fundraiser raised a total of $14,500, which will help install new playground equipment at the school by the end of this month.
Mitchell Godkin may be on the cusp of a technological breakthrough with his new venture, Leadbury Bat Co., and a new bat-drying method that is yielding tremendous results.
The culmination of years of hard work and determination came to fruition on Sunday with the grand opening of the Huron Residential Hospice just west of Clinton.
Long-time sports broadcaster and mental health awareness advocate Michael Landsberg spent May 3 speaking to over 1,400 Huron County residents and he says it was time well spent.
The Huron Arts and Heritage Network handed out its annual Cultural Awards on Friday night at Memorial Hall and a number of local projects and people were honoured.
The F.E. Madill Secondary School Junior Rugby Team welcomed visitors from British Columbia last week, just a short while after visiting the western province themselves.
Community Futures Huron, formerly the Huron Business Development Corporation, has undergone a few changes recently, including its name and location, but it continues to serve Huron County business ventures in the same way it has for 25 years.
While the Blyth Festival has made an effort to attract youth through its Young Company program for years, in 2018 the Festival will aim for an even younger audience with a new drama camp program.
The Blyth Festival Young Company is spreading a wide net this year in its search for artists, looking for anyone with an interest in any discipline of art.
The collective group of playwrights behind this year s world Blyth Festival premiere Wing Night at the Boot, recently finished their second week of research into the production and are finding plenty of inspiration for the play.
The Brussels Farmers Market will be moved into the Four Winds Barn this year and will run from May 18 to Oct. 5. A vendors meeting was held at the Four Winds Barn on Wednesday, April 18 to outline the changes to the market for the 2018 season.
The Blyth Festival Singers took to the Memorial Hall stage on Sunday for their spring offering, May There Always Be Sunshine . The concert, perhaps ironically, was postponed on April 14 due to a massive ice storm that shut down much of Huron County.
Some last-minute changes have drastically increased spending in the North Huron budget, set to be presented at North Huron s May 7 meeting. The proposed changes will result in approximately 18 per cent more spending in 2018 than 2017...
Blyth native Holly Howson has just returned from a volunteer trip in Ecuador and she s standing on the edge of what she hopes will be a life full of travelling the world.
When it comes to putting on a play, Blyth s Duncan McGregor, the driving force behind the recently-finished production of A Bunch of Munsch at the Blyth Festival, says the community is fertile ground.
Improvements at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre seemed poised to go ahead after Monday night s special community meeting that saw nearly 120 people attend.
Pending approval for Huron East Council, North Huron and its fire department will be guided by the seasoned hand of Huron East Fire Chief Marty Bedard.
Veteran Les Cook and newcomer Julie Sawchuk are preparing to take part in this fall s Dancing with the Stars fundraiser for Victim Services of Huron County and it has not always been easy.
The Festival of Thrones, the follow-up to Transfigured Town Inc. s Festival of Wizardry last fall, has had to be rescheduled from its early June date at Blyth Cowbell Brewing Company. When it will be rescheduled will be determined at a later date.
CIBC CEO Victor Dodig has committed his company to $1,500 per year to the Blyth Festival for the next three years after an empassioned plea from a current employee.
Shindig, one of Blyth Cowbell Brewing Company s beers, will now be served all year in the Ontario Legislative dining room after being voted best lager by MPPs, cabinet ministers and legislative staff.
Last week, the Blyth Brussels Novice Rep Crusaders topped off a back-and-forth series with the Minto Mad Dogs with a 4-3 victory en route to the Western Ontario Athletic Association (WOAA) crown.
After only a few months, the Seaforth-based Tanner Steffler Foundation is working towards improving the mental health and addiction services in Huron County.
The Blyth Cowbell Brewing Company-sponsored cycling team raised $8,250 for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of Canada on Saturday thanks to 16 members cycling in place on their trainers for eight hours in the brewery s Threshers Hall on Saturday.
Now into its 43rd year, the Blyth Festival Art Gallery will continue its mandate of presenting quality art work to the Huron County community as well as to visiting theatre-goers through its schedule of exhibitions for 2018.
The Blyth Brussels Atom Rep Crusaders brought home the Western Ontario Athletics Aassociation (WOAA) championship last Thursday, besting Goderich 3-2 in overtime to take their series against the Sailors two games to one.
The Brussels Curling Club held its awards and social evening on Friday night at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre in the upstairs meeting room. The group of over 30 gathered for a social time before enjoying a delicious potluck meal...
The Pigeon King will fly again this season at the Blyth Festival thanks to a $60,000 grant through Celebrate Ontario 2018, a provincial program to celebrate diversity, heritage and culture.
Illusionist Lucas Wilson and his assistant Kelly DeFilla were in Wingham on Saturday for a pair of shows thanks to the Wingham Knights of Columbus. They played to a standing room-only crowd of young people and their parents in the afternoon
The Emergency Services Training Centre (ESTC) has been left in a bad situation after staff turnover at the site damaged its reputation according to Fire Department of North Huron (FDNH) Deputy-Chief Chad Kregar.
Huron County has 31 employees on its Sunshine List for 2017, which outlines the salaries of public employees who made over $100,000 throughout the year. This is up just one person from the 30 employees on the county s list in 2016.
Thanks to inches of rain, warmer temperatures and a lot of foot traffic over the course of the day, the Blyth Lions Club s annual snow volleyball tournament quickly descended into an event of muddy proportions.
Increases in farm land taxes and worries over changes in the Natural Heritage Plan for Huron County were the among the issues discussed at the Huron County Federation of Agriculture (HCFA) Local Politicians Forum held Feb. 23 at the Clinton Legion.
The Majestic Women s Institute (WI) in Brussels marked the recent passing of WI Day on Feb. 19 by donating to the Books, Blankets and Bears project and handing over a large number of mostly handmade stuffed animals, blankets and other toys
The committee behind last September s International Plowing Match (IPM) held its final all-chairs meeting last week and whether it was attendance figures, banding together in the face of adversity or donating money to local charities
He was wandering outside New Orleans pizza in Clinton when pizzeria owner, Judith Damsma, saw him. He had put his boots and a pair of socks on a picnic table and was walking around the parking lot wearing a rather worn pair of socks.
Central Huron Council has granted Blyth Cowbell Brewing Company a two-year temporary use bylaw to host outdoor concerts, sports events and activities, subject to a number of conditions and amendments.
Long-time Blyth Fire Chief Paul Josling will be honoured this May by the Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund, an organization with which he had been intimately involved since its inception until the time of his death.
Bryan Morton is passionate about old barns. In fact, according to family lore, he was almost born in one. More than half a century later, Bryan is combining his love of agricultural history and a desire to give back to his community by building Four Winds
As is her annual tradition, Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson recently handed out her Remarkable Citizen awards at a special event in Teeswater. Several locals were honoured for their contributions to their communities.
After even further review, the Huron County Public Works Department is sticking with its recommendation that the Blyth intersection of Blyth and London Roads does not need traffic signals.
Justin Peters, a Blyth native and alumni of the Blyth Minor Hockey system, is one of three goaltenders named to the Canadian men s hockey team destined for next month s Olympics in South Korea.
Within the next few weeks, Household Games will release Way of the Passive Fist on all major game platforms. It has been a labour of love for the team, which includes Blyth native Orie Falconer who designed the game s music and sound effects.
Belgrave s Shawn and Katie Cottrill came home from Charlotte, North Carolina, the site for the World Curling Tour Mixed Doubles bonspiel, with some new hardware as they took first place
Ric McBurney was named the 2017 Citizen of the Year for Blyth and he received his plaque commemorating his win at last week s Blyth Lions Club meeting.
Brussels-area resident Elaine Armstrong was named the Citizen of the Year recipient for Brussels in 2017. She received her commemorative plaque on Sunday during a service at Melville Presbyterian Church in Brussels
The Fire Department of North Huron is in a major state of flux after last night s staff meeting, which saw Deputy-Chiefs Matt Townsend and Chad Kregar and eight captains resign and the rest of the department walk out.
Keith and Jill Roulston, founders of The Citizen, The Rural Voice and Stops Along The Way, were honoured with a special retirement open house at Memorial Hall on Saturday.
Continuing on an upward trend for the Blyth Festival, more people attended a performance this year than did last year according to Artistic Director Gil Garratt.
