GUELPH — The Upper Grand District School Board signed agreements with childcare providers to offer before- and after-school care at 24 schools in the board.

CLIFFORD – One could sense the thrill and excitement as members of Alice and George Van Ankum's family began to arrive for Canadian Diabetes Association local branch’s information meeting and medal presentation on Thursday, April 4 at Drayton Reformed Church. Regional director Kerry Bruder of Hamilton presented Drayton woman Alice Van Ankum with a certificate and Queen's Jubilee Medal. Bruder noted that when he needs to share a story about the heart of volunteerism, he always

Golfers who have been waiting for the warm weather to arrive to hit the links once again can breathe easy, as the Pike Lake Golf Centre is open for business. One of the area’s finest golf courses took its first tee times of 2013 last Tuesday. The 27-hole course is currently overhauling four holes on the Links arm, but that isn’t stopping early birds from getting out to shoot a round. “We think the new holes are

TOWN OF MINTO – Minto children looking to gain some valuable skill sets in two popular sports can look no further than clinics offered right in the area. A softball pitching clinic will be taking place at Norwell District Secondary School on April 29-30. Twenty dollars gets youth 12-years-old and under the chance to learn some of the windmill basics from seasoned Formosa instructor and 1989 national junior softball champion, Ryan Martin. “He really does well with

HARRISTON – Anyone who has ever attended a wedding knows that seldom does anyone get hitched without a hitch.

HARRISTON – Brian Dalton, well-known Canadian artist and former head of the Norwell District Secondary School art department, will be exhibiting his paintings from March 5 to April 27 at the Minto Art Gallery at the Harriston Public Library.

It seems when something goes wrong in this world of ours, most people blame one of several things: Terrorism, guns or the media. One needs only to look as far as Facebook to see uneducated rants and copycat comments going on and on about the media sensationalizing events, making criminals famous and exposing children to violence and other acts by the scum of mankind. Our three primary arguments are: 1. If members of the public are familiar enough

Listowel Banner / MintoExpress / Wingham Advance-Times editorial: We received news last week that two of the terrorists killed in January’s deadly hostage-taking in Algeria were young men from London, Ontario. They had attended South Secondary School, and had grown up in a good neighbourhood – not your usual Al-Qaida background.