Today’s top- stories for Barrie residents.
Six and a half hours, 18 innings, and a whole nation on the edge—Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium left Blue Jays fans from Barrie to Toronto gutted, watching their championship hopes slip away on Freddie Freeman’s thunderous walk-off home run. It was the kind of baseball epic that demands attention. The […]
Blue Jays Faithful Left Reeling After 18-Inning Heartbreaker Read More »
In Essa Township, the echo of skates on ice has been replaced, at least for now, by murmurs of disbelief and questions of trust. A modest minor hockey association, the heart of many local winters, finds itself engulfed in the chilling reality of financial betrayal. Nottawasaga Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) launched an investigation on May
Hockey fraud stuns Essa as minor league reels Read More »
It’s that time of year when Barrie’s city forestry crews, bundled in visibility vests and wielding pruners, take to the boulevards with a singular mission: keep the streets safe, the sidewalks passable, and the trees standing tall and healthy. The annual autumn pruning program is no mere cosmetic sweep. Each fall, teams of qualified workers
Street trees get annual care as pruning season arrives Read More »
Rush hour in Barrie is about to look very different as Metrolinx brings new options for local commuters, responding to the city’s rising demand for efficient transit connections. Beginning October 27, GO Transit is rolling out additional train trips on the Barrie line as part of a broader regional service upgrade. The updated schedule, announced
Barrie riders enjoy shorter waits with more frequent GO trains Read More »
Thick smoke curled over Audrey Milligan Park late Saturday afternoon, curling through the branches above clusters of tents and shelters, as city firefighters raced to a blaze threatening Barrie’s oldest homeless encampment. Barrie Fire and Emergency Service crews were dispatched to the scene, a natural area stretching more than eight acres at the corner of
Quick action averted disaster at Audrey Milligan Park Read More »
Pins and needles at Rogers Centre Saturday night as the Los Angeles Dodgers powered past the Toronto Blue Jays, tying the World Series at a game apiece with a 5-1 victory that reminded everyone why October baseball is the greatest show on earth. From the first pitch, tension hung thick in the air. Yoshinobu Yamamoto,
Blue Jays look to rebound after tough loss Read More »
The air at Mount St. Louis Moonstone crackled with cheers as over a thousand young runners sprinted toward the finish, their faces etched with determination and hope for gold. Simcoe County’s regional cross-country championship transformed the ski slopes north of Barrie into the site of one of the county’s most anticipated youth sporting events. Over
Elementary cross-country inspires a new generation of athletes Read More »
Nearly one in three Orillia families now struggle to put food on the table—a reality that has forced city leaders to sound the alarm and demand action from every level of government. When Orillia declared a household food insecurity emergency, it was more than a symbolic gesture. The staggering 30.7 percent food insecurity rate in
County of Simcoe Steps Up Local Food Security Push Read More »
Tension simmered across Simcoe County council chambers this week, as a much-anticipated decision on Barrie’s proposed annexation stalled at the eleventh hour—leaving residents and local leaders bracing for what provincial negotiations might bring. The City of Barrie’s ambitious plan to annex almost 870 hectares from Springwater and Oro-Medonte, first endorsed by city council on October
Province steps in to pause Simcoe County boundary decision Read More »
Three break-ins in Midhurst over just two weeks have put this normally quiet community right on edge, with the Huronia West OPP urgently searching for answers—and for suspects. It all started on September 29 at about 7 p.m. when a home on St. Vincent Street in Springwater Township was hit. Not long after, on October
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