News from around St. Marys.
Sunday, 11am-2pm, with $99 Season Tickets Available for Purchase By Stewart Grant Come on out to McDonald’s Your Independent Grocer this Sunday anytime between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and meet this year’s St. Marys Lincolns. The team will be cooking up hamburgers and hot dogs for the community free-of-charge (donation only), with many thanks…
By Stewart Grant Back on June 17 PJ Gorton and his tech company, GoToGeeks, was featured in the Independent as our Business of the Week. This week, I’m pleased to announce that PJ and I have struck a deal whereby he will become owner of Evolution Web Management, the website development company that I started…
Casey Downing is home and doing well In the space of two years, St. Marys has seen two successful kidney transplants. In July 2014 Kathy Carradine donated her kidney for her brother David. Both incidentally are doing very well. The latest transplant happened on July 20th when 17 year-old Casey Downing received a kidney from…
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs released its latest Field Crop Report on July 27, commenting on the quality of a number of crops currently growing around the province, including corn, cereals, soybeans, forages, edible beans and canola. The report describes how dry weather has impacted fields around Ontario. “In areas which…
By Dan Rankin It takes a very particular type of musician to hear a pop song on the radio, or a deep cut from a long-cherished CD and think, “I should play this, only, with a banjo!” But, as singer and guitarist for the St. Marys quartet Corduroy Gordon Emily Lagace tells the Independent, it’s…
By Stewart Grant The St. Marys Lincolns are looking within the community for interested billets for the upcoming season. Having a strong network of billet families within St. Marys gives the team the opportunity to attract and bring in talented hockey players from outside the local area. An ideal make-up of the team will consist…
After several months of work, crews are preparing to put the finishing touches on Queen Street in St. Marys. During the week of August 15, a final layer of asphalt will be laid between Peel Street and Thomas Street. Permanent line painting will also be completed at this time. Preparations for the work will begin…
The Perth County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is currently investigating incidents of graffiti that have taken place in St.Marys over the past few weeks. The incidents involved the application of large obscene symbols on St.Marys welcome signs on the East and West sides of town. The public is reminded that Graffiti is any writing, symbols…
A few residents were lined up at the coupon booth, eager to be first on the rides at Milt Dunnell Field, last Friday afternoon shortly after the opening of the midway. Luc Wisman, left, and Aive Johnson were thoroughly entertained aboard the “Scrambler” last Friday afternoon during Kin Summerfest. Tim Neufeld, right, appears to have…
Westover Place gets go-ahead In order to meet current requirements for fire prevention and education, Council voted on Tuesday to hire a Fire Prevention Officer to assist the Fire Chief in meeting compliance levels required by the Fire Prevention and Protection Act. This was originally approved in the spring of 2015 because of the amount…