Creemore students learn the art of bookmaking

Creemore students are used to getting knowledge from books but in the past few weeks they have been learning how to make books. During the annual Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society’s Artists in the School program at Nottawasaga and Creemore Public School, students...

Town of Collingwood looks for new Elvis Festival operator

Collingwood Council voted in favour of discontinuing the Collingwood Elvis Festival as a municipally-operated event following the 2019 edition, and will determine the best way to proceed with a transition of the Festival to a third party operator. In response to the...

G&M Hospital receives first swivel bassinests in Canada

The first Halo Bassinest swivel sleepers in Canada have arrived at Collingwood G&M hospital. The bassinest sleepers keep newborns close to their mom, facilitating family-centred care and safe sleep practices in the hospital’s maternity ward, allowing new parents...

Help keep deadly oak wilt out of Dufferin County

Dufferin County residents are urged not to prune, harvest or otherwise damage oak trees from April 1 to July 31 to help prevent the spread of oak wilt. Oak wilt is a vascular disease of oak trees, caused by a fungus that can kill trees within weeks after infection....

Delivery truck catches overhead wires

Crews vacuum a hole for a new utility pole at the corner of Mill and Elizabeth streets April 10 after a food delivery truck, making its regular rounds in Creemore that morning, snagged overhead wires, breaking the pole. Epcor had a new pole delivered from Collingwood...