Parry Sound News

It's coming up to budget time for the Near North District School Board and with yet another drop in student enrolment that likely means less money for the board, a reality that has people asking: despite ...

Red Umbrella continues to refine their skills on the long-awaited Living and Surviving , delivering timely rock sound with smart Christian-influenced lyricism.

In Hamburg, Germany, a regular cartoon in the city's biggest weekly newspaper features Bleeker, a little German-speaking robot dog, and his young owner getting into head-on scrapes with everyday life.

Three citizen members of the town of Parry Sound's ad hoc snow removal committee are having another go at the town because they say their recommendations where not included in four suggestions adopted by ...

It's almost impossible to tell right now, but Parry Sound has received a record amount of snow this month.

One cat is dead after an attic fire on Victoria Avenue Saturday night caused nearly $75,000 in damage to the multi-unit dwelling.

Just after 2 p.m. Sunday, the Ontario Provincial Police announced several road closures and encouraged all travellers to stay home.

It's been a year of development for the town of Parry Sound. Combined permit sales for new homes, apartments, commercials and government are up 300 per cent this year - from approximately $9 million in 2007 to ...

NORAD scientists managed to capture this image of a strange object first spotted over the North Pole a short time ago.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Original advisory - 3:57 p.m. The Ontario Provincial Police advise the public of the following road closure.

Dog and cat owners in Parry Sound who can't afford to spay or neuter their pets will now have a chance to have half their vet bills for the procedure subsidized by the town of Parry Sound.

Parry Sound's chief bylaw officer Tammy Purdy sacrificed some of her free time to join a meeting of citizens concerned about the health and welfare of stray cats last Wednesday night.

Over the past 40 years, staff at the sanctuary have saved thousands of animals, many of them raccoons.

The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to consider the federal governmenta TMs appeal of ruling that quashed Henry Fischbachera TMs surrender on grounds that U.S. authorities failed to show that the 2006 ...

The only person John Macfie knows for certain is in this photo is lifelong Parry Sound resident Anne Jones, pictured on the very left in the back row.

The McKellar Seniors held bid euchre on Sunday, Nov. 30 and the winners were: first, Jurgen Tietz 354; second, Melinda McMurphy 312; third, Barb Frazer 305.

Re: The Friday, Dec. 5 Beacon Star, front page article - 'Unholy' coalition disturbing: Clement.

A woman out walking her dog last Tuesday night suffered an electrical jolt on the Seguin Bridge in downtown Parry Sound.

MORE FUNDING: Parry Sound-Muskoka MP and federal industry minister Tony Clement signs a cheque for over $1.6 million in federal funds for local community vitality and economic development initiatives.

Parry Sound Muskoka MP Tony Clement says renowned CBC comedian Rick Mercer is angry he refused to appear in a skit on his show, and suggested that could be the reason behind a skit that pulled no punches with ...