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1 week ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
A Southwestern Ontario municipality has rejected a proposed wind turbine project after politicians received a loud negative response from many residents. Township of South-West Oxford councillors voted 5-1 to declare the largely rural municipality east of London an “unwilling host” to wind turbines. The decision came to the delight of many people who attended Tuesday evening’s council meeting at Mount Elgin Community Centre, where cheers erupted following the vote.
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1 week ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
ZORRA TOWNSHIP – An Oxford County couple is raising concerns about road safety after a dump truck tipped over at the edge of their rural home’s driveway. John Murkin and Sandy Adams have long been concerned about the conditions on the gravel stretch of 31st Line between Road 92 and Road 96, about 45 kilometres northeast of London in Zorra Township where they live.
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1 week ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
The owner of a curling apparel company is looking to score in the craft beer industry by launching a brewery whose suds will be marketed to the sport’s enthusiasts. Mark Kean is a competitive curler who co-owns Runback – a company that designs custom curling sportswear such as jackets, uniforms and shirts – with his wife Mallory.
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2 weeks ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
A 71-year-old woman was the person seriously injured in a crash between a London police cruiser and a city bus that sent her and two other passengers to hospital, Ontario’s police watchdog says. The collision between the London Transit bus and the police vehicle happened at about 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday in the area near Queens Avenue and Talbot Street on the edge of downtown. The circumstances that led to the crash remain unclear, officials with the Special Investigations Unit said in a statement.
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2 weeks ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
PORT STANLEY – Spurred by the drowning of a London teen last summer, a former Port Stanley lifeguard has launched a non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about rip currents – a powerful and often misunderstood hazard in the Great Lakes. Nathan MacIntyre, 43, who worked as a lifeguard on the town’s main Lake Erie beach for 18 years, has founded the Rip Current Information Project.
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2 weeks ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
One person is dead after a motorcycle and a farm tractor collided in a rural area north of London, provincial police say. Ontario Provincial Police officers, paramedics and firefighters responded to a motor vehicle collision at about 7 p.m. on Thursday after a report that a motorcycle had collided with a tractor on Perth Line 88, which runs north of Listowel, the OPP said in a statement on Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
WOODSTOCK – A nearby resident of a Woodstock homeless encampment erected more than two years ago is “cautiously relieved” dismantling of the site is underway. Beth Merryweather said she’s feeling different emotions after City of Woodstock workers arrived this week to begin removing the remnants of the now-abandoned encampment that was pitched in a small forest about nine metres from her property. “Yes, I’m relieved, but then I also feel like I may be having . . .
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2 weeks ago | 
therecord.com | Brian Williams
After far-off wildfires drove air quality in the region into high-risk territory last week, a Southwestern Ontario health unit has issued a special air quality statement. Southwestern Public Health, the public health office that oversees Oxford and Elgin counties and St. Thomas, issued a statement on Monday advising residents that air quality “will be significantly impacted” late Tuesday and into Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Brian Williams
Hockey jerseys out, grad gowns in. London’s downtown arena, home to the national champion London Knights junior hockey team, will become convocation central for not just one, but both of London’s post-secondary schools for the first time starting Monday. Thousands of graduates from Western University and Fanshawe College, and their guests, will converge on the downtown this month to receive their degrees and diplomas in ceremonies beginning with Western this week.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Brian Williams
Trends, fads, time – like all apparel companies, London-based Illbury + Goose has endured its share of the familiar tests in a notoriously fickle industry. To that you can add a pandemic that left many merchants, including small clothing retailers, scrambling to reinvent their business, and – now – a U.S-triggered trade war that’s slapped tariffs on many items that industries around the world, including Canada, rely on in the global supply chain for their products.
