News from around St. Marys.
A swim-a-thon in support of St. Marys Memorial Hospital Foundation’s ongoing Someone I Know capital campaign took place last Sunday afternoon at the Quarry, with six swim teams taking part and raising $5,400 for the cause.
Experience the world by food & drink in your own backyard & local community. An original small-town girl, Lisa Culbert has spent the past 6 years living and working as a lawyer in the “Big Smoke” of Toronto and recently resumed living in what she can only describe as the welcoming and wonderfully peaceful town…
Canada’s most distracted drivers and pedestrians descended upon Thorndale for their annual town wide yard sale. With so much to see and do the distraction is to be expected. Most residents wait for this day to have their garage sale. The rain poured down on Friday night but by Saturday morning the rain held off…
On Monday evening, representatives from the Royal Canadian Legion St. Marys Branch 236 (above) presented a cheque for $5,097.11 to the St. Marys Memorial Hospital Foundation that covered the purchasing of a new ceiling lift for patient mobility. Pictured, from left, are Legion branch president Pete Bushfield, branch track and field executive Jason Cates, St.…
New album “Career Suicide” a collaboration with St. Marys musician Wes Murray By Dan Rankin It’s been over a year since The Independent last checked in with Stratford hip hop artist Danny Lover, following the release of his debut album “My Best Friends Keep Dying” on the United Kingdom-based label Blah Records. Since that time,…
Ideal weather in important American crops producing areas such as Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota will lead to a record crop of corn and soybeans, according to yields estimates in a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Aug. 12. The first survey-based account of the 2016 crop shows U.S. corn at…
It’s August and activities at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum are in full swing. The diamonds are alive with baseball, fastball and slo-pitch games. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, August 30 when teams from Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Toronto and the Ontario Terriers Under-18s take to Cement Field for a…
One of the most anticipated and well attended events happens this weekend. The Teddy Bears’ Reunion will start this Sunday with the Parade starting at the High School and proceeding to East Ward Park. There will be prizes for the best decorated bike, trike or wagon in the parade, and the judging for this will…
Includes coffee shop and pizza The long process of building a new gas station on Queen Street East could soon be coming to an end. The work of clearing the land, across from the golf course has started and all the details have been worked out with the Town. The Independent has learned that it…
Could happen this fall At a meeting of the Strategic Priorities Committee, which is made up of the Mayor and all of Council, the decision was made to close Cadzow Pool in a split vote of 4 to 3. The closure could happen this fall. A decision to close the pool had been made by…