LOCAL HEADLINES

Grace Harper currently lives in the County of Perth Wellington, just north of Oxford County, but she is no stranger to the local area.

The most consistent, volatile winter weather we have seen in years led to most of us staying home all weekend and early into this week.

Though Wellesley council has approved the budgeted purchase of a new tandem roll-off truck

“Start the Presses!” was the big headline in the Saturday, Feb. 15 online edition of The Paris Independent.

Students in Intro to Sustainability course at Wilfrid Laurier University are helping to create a sustainable future

A proposal from staff at East Zorra-Tavistock (EZT) Township to eliminate a month’s worth of ice at the Tavistock and District Rec Centre

No one would argue being a member of Wilmot Township Council is easy these days.

Khadijah Haliru is a first term councillor for the town of Ingersoll and would like to serve as Oxford County's MPP

The Township of Wilmot has made some progress on scaling back a proposed 51 per cent tax hike in its 2025 budget.

The annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference was held in Toronto from Jan. 18 to 20

Sadie-May Harrett has been director of the Tavistock Little Preschool for five years

East Zorra-Tavistock (EZT) council has voted in favour of closing a sewage-dumping station in the parking lot at Queen’s Park in Tavistock

The Ontario government is investing $30 million over three years to provide support for cancer-prevention initiatives.

Thirty-four townhomes will be built in Tavistock in the near future, but not all of them are going to have for-sale signs until 2027.

A hockey tournament and the search for a kidney may not seem to have much in common, but the two will come together this weekend

No one knows if the recent Ward 4 townhall meeting should be considered legitimate township business.

Kevin Thomason isn’t a stranger to delegating at Wilmot Township council meetings.

County taxpayers won’t see the sticker shock on next year’s tax bill in contrast to this year.

The 2025 budget was officially presented to members of Wilmot council and the public who attended

In 2025, Wellesley Township will likely take the first step in what will be a long process for determining what to do with the old Wellesley