Three mailboxes, all flung open and empty, greeted residents on Hanmer Street West last Friday—a sight that sent a jolt of unease through more than one Barrie household. In the quiet north end, regular routines were upended when Steve Glover arrived to collect his mail and found not a letter in sight. His first reaction […]
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Brown paper bags line the curbs of Barrie, bracing for their last journey before the snow buries all signs of autumn. The city’s annual yard waste collection, usually a brisk autumn affair, has been stretched into December, offering residents a final reprieve to whisk away fallen leaves before winter settles in. City services announced the
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Beneath the shimmering surface of Lake Simcoe, a silent crisis intensifies. The region’s iconic water body, long a sanctuary for anglers and families alike, now shoulders a burden that threatens its very future. Lake Simcoe, stretching across central Ontario, finds itself under significant ecological stress. Worsening water quality is linked to mounting levels of pollutants
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Darkness crept in when the Rotary Club of Barrie discovered key holiday items missing from their donation drive, but hope returned just as swiftly as the stolen goods themselves. Early December brought an unwelcome surprise to the Rotary Club of Barrie. Essential holiday donations, intended for the city’s most vulnerable, vanished from storage overnight. Spirits
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Sirens echoed along Yonge Street as Barrie’s evening calm shattered—a driver hospitalized, another vanished, and a city left grappling with questions that cut to the bone of community trust. On a busy stretch of Yonge Street, the ordinary rhythm of traffic was interrupted by an event that has become all too familiar for residents: a
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Streetlights flickered on Mill Street just before sunrise, illuminating the quiet only briefly before chaos took its place—a masked figure, a flash of steel, and a local gas station staffer staring down the cold edge of a knife. In the early hours, the routine hum of Angus was pierced by a brazen act at a
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Flashing lights painted the facades of Dunlop Street East late into the evening, an unsettling backdrop to the questions now echoing through Barrie’s downtown core. Police responded to reports of a stabbing on Dunlop Street East, a stretch familiar to most Barrie residents. The incident, which unfolded in the heart of the city, quickly drew
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A stray shaft of sunlight warms the old dog’s fur as he dozes by the window, unaware that help is on the way—not from a clinic, but from a van parked quietly outside his Barrie home. Mobile veterinary care is reshaping how families in Barrie and Huntsville address their pets’ final days. The arrival of
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Red lights flash in a mid-morning drizzle, a school bus idles, and for a heartbeat, every parent in Barrie holds their breath. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have made it plain: missing a stop for a school bus is no longer a minor oversight—it’s a costly mistake. Since the start of the school year, the
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Six minutes can draw the line between disaster and relief in an emergency. In Barrie’s southeast, that margin just narrowed with the arrival of Fire Station 6 at the corner of Mapleview Drive East and Prince William Way. When Mayor Alex Nuttall and Fire Chief Kevin White uncoupled a fire hose to mark the station’s
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