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London

• Plan to move students scrapped as enrolment holds steady downtown
  The region’s largest school board is walking back a plan to relocate more than 100 Old North pupils after predictions of a spike in the number of students downtown failed to materialize.
• Why does fast-growing London rank 47th in Canada in housing starts?
  A new report highlights just how inadequate London’s pace of home construction has been over the last six years, ranking the city – one of the nation's fastest-growing – 47th in Canada.
• Key witness holds firm at bush party homicide trial: 'I know what I saw'
  Despite the repeated attacks on her story, Jessica Falardeau maintained: “I know what I saw.”
• Loved ones express grief as sentencing nears for impaired driver who killed boy
  ST. THOMAS – More than 20 grieving loved ones expressed their pain in court Wednesday as sentencing loomed for an impaired driver who killed an 11-year-old boy who was walking home from getting ice cream. Aiden Curtis was killed on July 4, 2023, after being struck by an out-of-control pickup truck driven by Nicholas Lemke, […]

Mitchell

• Story trios are a recommended way to talk out differences
  Appreciative Inquiry helps cross rural community divides
• Meteor girls' teams runners-up in Stratford tournament
  Both Mitchell minor hockey girls’ teams finished as runners-up in competitive divisions in the Stratford Aces tournament over the Nov. 15-17 weekend.  The Ace Country & Garden U15C team played seven games over the three days — three intense playoff games on Nov. 17 alone — but ran out of steam in a 5-0 loss […]
• Van Loon returns as chair of Catholic school board
  For a fifth consecutive term, a familiar face will lead the Huron-Perth Catholic District school board as its 2024-25 chair.  Mary Helen Van Loon of Dublin was re-acclaimed to the position of chair at the board’s Nov. 18 annual meeting while Tina Doherty was acclaimed as vice-chair, replacing Jim McDade.  Beginning her service to the […]
• Gay Lea Foods negotiating to sell Hewitt’s Dairy Limited
  It acquired the processor ten years ago but does not see it as a fit moving forward

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