Today’s top- stories for Barrie residents.
At Barrie Legion 147, the clink of poppy pins marked the start of a campaign that means survival for many veterans and a lesson in gratitude for everyone else. On Friday, the Royal Canadian Legion branches in Barrie joined their counterparts nationwide in launching the annual poppy campaign, bringing together veterans, dignitaries, and townsfolk under […]
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Two familiar names, an unfamiliar silence: Barrie police have sounded the alarm after two residents vanished, possibly behind the wheel of a marked U-Haul truck or van, leaving a neighbourhood on edge and a community on alert. Sacha Charles and Antonie Chimenti, both 46, were last spotted on McVeigh Drive in north Barrie, somewhere between
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Grey clouds and icy branches once plunged Barrie into darkness, but today, the city’s influence flickers across Ontario’s energy future as mayor Alex Nuttall joins a provincial drive reshaping how electricity flows to homes and businesses. Alex Nuttall, mayor of Barrie, now stands among energy heavyweights on Ontario’s new Panel for Utility Leadership and Service
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First snow rarely asks permission—it simply arrives, cold and unhurried, settling over Barrie just as autumn finishes its last breath. This November, the forecast reads more like a warning than a whisper: snow is coming, and it means business. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Ontario’s November will be marked by a parade of cold,
Will Barrie’s streets be white by November’s end? Read More »
At 8:00 a.m., Dunlop Street usually hums with the rhythm of daily life—until the sound was abruptly replaced by sirens and the flash of police lights, halting Barrie’s west end in its tracks. On Wednesday morning, a marked Barrie Police Service cruiser, its emergency equipment fully engaged, collided with a vehicle travelling north on Ferndale
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Guerrero Jr. sent a jolt through southern Ontario as his powerful swing in Game 4 put the Blue Jays back in the World Series fight, igniting a wave of pride from Barrie to Toronto. Tuesday night, the Toronto Blue Jays delivered the kind of performance that gets a whole community buzzing. Down one early against
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Classrooms across Simcoe County and Simcoe-Muskoka will stand empty this Friday as students take an unscheduled break, thanks to a new Professional Activity Day on the calendar. School boards in both regions have declared October 24 a Professional Activity Day, marking a pause in regular learning for thousands of students enrolled in the public and
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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
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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
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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
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