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London

• Roll up to wince: Tim Hortons wrongly tells local customers they've won boat
  Several Southwestern Ontario residents felt their hearts sink like an anchor after receiving an erroneous email from Tim Hortons this week saying they’d won a boat.
• Victim's mother to judge as teen gets probation in fatal stabbing: 'I hate you'
  CHATHAM – Emotions ran high in a Chatham courtroom as the mother of a teenager killed in a violent encounter lashed out at the judge during a youth’s sentencing hearing. The male youth was 17 when the teen was stabbed to death in a drug deal gone bad involving four teens on Oct. 21, 2022 […]
• OHL official details reasoning behind London Knights player's 5-game ban
  The Ontario Hockey League rejected London coach Dale Hunter’s assessment that Knights forward Kaleb Lawrence’s collision with Kitchener defenceman Simon Motew Tuesday was an accident. The league slapped Lawrence with a hefty five-game suspension Thursday and re-iterated its stance that it has zero tolerance when it comes to head checks. “We view this play with […]
• Jeff Carter, among London's most successful pro athletes, retires
  London native Jeff Carter, whose hockey career is among the most decorated by any professional athlete in the city’s history, has retired after 19 NHL seasons. Wednesday night, the 39-year-old who grew up in east London, played his final game – scoring a goal for the Pittsburgh Penguins as the team’s season ended without a […]

Mitchell

• EV charging stations now operational in West Perth; rate to be monitored
  West Perth will monitor its eight electric-vehicle (EV) chargers over the next six months to determine if the municipality is overcharging customers, council decided during its April 15 meeting.  Earlier this year, the municipality strategically installed the chargers at both the front and back parking lot of the municipal office on Wellington Street, and in Keterson Park […]
• West Perth ringette players return from national event
  West Perth’s Lydia Duncan rehabilitated her knee to the point where she could resume playing ringette at the highest level this 2023-24 season.   And she was rewarded with a bronze medal.  Duncan, who grew up just north of Mitchell, played defence this season for the third straight year with the Waterloo Wildfire of the […]
• Hicks descendants looking forward to Homecoming celebration
  Mitchell’s 150th Homecoming celebration this summer will be like a big family reunion.  For one family, though, they can definitively point to Mitchell’s founder, Col. John Hicks, as an ancestor.  Might as well start at the beginning, right?  Blyth resident Cindy Soares is the sixth generation of Col. Hicks, while niece Kelly Chmilar of Mount Forest […]
• Well-earned provincial silver for Mitchell U18 girls
  Knowing they had a rather large bull’s-eye on their collective backs, the Mitchell GC Financial Solutions Group U18 girls’ hockey team — as defending provincial ‘C’ champions — aimed for the rare repeat at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association championships over the April 12-14 weekend in the Greater Toronto Area.  The Meteors rocketed all the […]

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