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• Letters to the Editor: April 24, 2024
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• OHL playoffs, Round 3: It's London Knights vs. Saginaw Spirit
  The OHL’s Western conference final is about to get Spirit-ed for the Knights. Well-rested London will face Memorial Cup host Saginaw, who beat the Soo Greyhounds 3-1 in Game 7 at home Tuesday night, in the third round starting Friday, 7 p.m. at Budweiser Gardens. Saginaw’s Calem Mangone, a Sault Ste. Marie native, torched the […]
• Booming Catholic board goes on $5M portable spending spree
  The booming London District Catholic school board is going on a record portable binge to keep up with soaring enrolment, installing 47 of the trailer classrooms at a cost of more than $5 million.
• Spring cleaning? There's a place to take your Labatt Park stuff
  Tucked away in the basements, attics, closets and garages of London could be a grand slam of local baseball treasures.

Mitchell

• New executive members another positive to Stingers' good year
  After a few years as director, ice scheduler and Great Lakes Ringette League association representative for Mitchell minor ringette, Tracy Nugent decided to add president to her resumé before the 2024-25 season begins. The ringette association held its annual meeting April 17, at which time Nugent moved up, replacing the semi-retiring Chris Dowson, who will […]
• 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 […]

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