News from around St. Marys.
St. Marys finishes regular schedule with 18-3 record St. Marys U-16 Snipers completed their WRRL regular season this past weekend with a home-and-home series against the London Lynx. On Saturday, Jim Burlingham’s Snipers travelled to Kinsmen Arena in London for the opening game. The defensive lines comprised of Jillian Cunningham, Kaylee Fowler, Celeste Brandt, Caitlynn…
The Stonetown Lady Schleprocks kicked off the 2020 basketball campaign with a pair of impressive victories at DCVI on Sunday, Feb. 23 to move into first place as the Huron-Perth League kicked off its season. In addition to St. Marys, Mitchell, Goderich and Kincardine teams took part in a series of games that day. The…
St. Marys goalie posts back-to-back shutouts as Lincolns win 2-0 and 4-0 By Pat Payton STRATHROY – Fifty-eight saves and 120 shutout minutes. That’s what goalie Kyle Curtin gave the St. Marys Lincolns in the first two games of their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final playoff series with Strathroy Rockets. Forty-one stops by Curtin here Saturday…
By Pat Payton It’s worth repeating. St. Marys Lincolns achieved a 30-win season in 2019-20, the 10th time in the team’s storied history that the Lincs have finished with 30 wins or more in the regular schedule. It’s also the first time in 10 full seasons that the Lincolns won 30 games in a season.…
Team plays best game of the season at home last Thursday against Rockets By Pat Payton The coaching staff said the Legion A-E Midgets may have played their best all-round game of the season to date last Thursday night at the PRC. After losing the series opener 7-0 in Strathroy, Bob Davis’s squad bounced back…
Hubbard Midgets split pair with Huron Heat in OWHA playoffs By Pat Payton A first-period goal by ABS Tracs Bantams centre Ava Ansley stood up as the game winner in a 1-0 victory over the Tillsonburg Lightning last Monday, Feb. 24 at the PRC. Ansley beat the Tillsonburg goalie with a nice wrist shot to…
Firefighter Peewees earn 1-1 tie in Strathroy with just 10 skaters By Pat Payton LUCAN – Forwards Ben Ewing and Harper Murrell fired two goals apiece as the Golf and Country Club ‘BB’ Atoms outlasted the home-town Irish 6-5 here Saturday afternoon. It was a must win for Dan Murrell’s squad, who evened their Shamrock…
By Paul Dreossi, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter During the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) budget meeting and AGM of February 20, 2020 held at the Watershed Conservation Centre in London, delegations from the municipality of Perth South and the Town of St. Marys were on hand to object to the increases in levies paid…
By Nancy Abra Shock and sorrow of the fire that levelled the Thorndale Community Centre in the early morning hours of Monday, February 24th evolved to pride and laughter five days later. The 2020 Thorndale Dinner Theatre completed their run. This year’s production was ‘Don’t get Your Vicars in a Twist’ written by Ann Gawthorpe…
The big buzz on social media this week was about the mural in the downtown. We asked the Town to clarify the situation and Brent Kittmer supplied us with the following: “Council and staff are aware of the public concern regarding an order to comply that has been laid for a mural in the Downtown…