Port Stanley News

It's true that Ontario tourist organizations are taking a beating, what with a recession and new restrictions on border crossings, but the side effect is the so-called "staycation" -- and maybe it's not such a bad thing.

You might say Harvest is a home-grown hit. The comedy by Dutton-native Ken Cameron is based on the true-life story of his parents, Allister and Carolyn, unknowingly renting their west Elgin farmhouse for a marijuana grow-op. "It was anything but a comedy at the time," Carolyn remarks.

It's Canada's 142nd birthday and all across St. Thomas and Elgin county, groups are prepared to throw quite a bash, complete with fireworks, to mark the ocassion in style.

Recreation projects in St. Thomas and Elgin county got a big boost Friday, to the tune of $5.5 million, from both the provincial and federal government.

The water means a variety of things to different people and there are competing uses.

Summertime . . . and the listenin' is easy! Music in the Park is back for another year of Sunday evening concerts at the Morris F. Jones Memorial Bandshell in Pinafore Park.

A highway for pioneers, a livelihood for hardworking folk, a cool place to be in summer: Lake Erie is many things to many people.

Me Nation In our show-and-tell culture, everyone gets to be a celebrity, famous for 15 people.

There was a time a half a century ago, which many of us remember fondly when music and styles were "hip" and "cool". It was a time of some of the greatest music listened, danced, and sung to.

Middle-aged and married -- not to mention overworked and overweight -- Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution but the parade is passing him by.

ON ENTERING an ordinary-looking flat in Monmouth, one of the first things to greet you is a map of an area in Antarctica.

Port Stanley as a Niagara-on-the-Lake with a new Stork Club museum, theatre and dancefloor, expanded marina and trendy shops? That vision for the Lake Erie fishing village, or any other, seems at risk this month as Transport Canada tells Ontario Environment officials about its plans for the contaminated and silt-filled harbour in a risk assessment ...

Beach Volleyball Tournament - A Fundraiser for Animal Aide By: Cathy Kohlsmith , 9 months ago Beach Volleyball Tournament At GTa s in Port Stanley A Fundraiser for Animal Aide of St.

Yet another proponent of a Lake Erie ferry service to Port Stanley has stepped forward.

Dredging Port Stanley harbour would do little to improve it's future as a commercial port, visitors to an open house on water quality, harbour divestiture and related issues heard Thursday in St.

A long-time local heritage advocate is set to receive a prestigious provincial award.

Mayor Sylvia Hofhuis promised Monday the municipality will not burden residents with a money-draining harbour.

A summit meeting is urgently needed to address all the important and interconnected issues at Port Stanley harbour.

The winter blues disappeared on Jan. 22, when the Wabash Women's Institute served its all-you-can-eat Chili supper at the Hall.

Within two hours, contaminants from Port Stanley harbour can reach the intake for a system that supplies drinking water to 100,000 people as far away as London.