HARRINGTON — When the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) received the results of a pair of consultants’ reports about the safety and stability of small dams located on its property, deficiencies were identified in numerous locations. But the dam in Harrington — originally constructed in 1846; upgraded significantly when the UTRCA took ownership in 1952; and repaired after a seven-inch rain in 2000 — jumped to the top of the list.

WELLESLEY — Driving through Wellesley as a young boy, Dennis Shantz always wondered what was at the top of the village’s old mill, the biggest building in town.

Regional County News editorial: Twenty years ago, it wouldn’t have been 13 Latin Americans — living in Canada, but with no real expectation of remaining here once their employment contract expired — riding in the van that was tragically struck by a truck last month in Hampstead. Instead, it could have been a bunch of teenagers from a small-town southwestern Ontario community, riding home dirty and exhausted, carrying $15 cheques for 14 hours of dusty,

Most farmers I know are hockey fans, having played the sport or been exposed to it all their lives.