Director of Finance Jeff Boyes made short work of the 2026 budget process, garnering support from council, which approved an accelerated timeline that will see the budget up for adoption on Monday.
After months of dancing around the issue and attempting to find other avenues through which to trim costs in what is the most difficult budget year in more than two decades...
Goderich's John Powers, a musician well known throughout Huron County, has released his new album, Everyone's a Critic, the first child of a year-long songwriting challenge that he hopes will lead to more albums in the years to come.
Brenda and Marc Orr of Blyth are freshly back in Huron County after participating in the Tarawera Ultramarathon in Rotorua, New Zealand travelling a challenging 55-kilometre route in a day-long torrential downpour...
After a run-of-the-mill 6-3 defeat at the hands of the Hanover Barons last Wednesday in game three of their best-of-seven series, the Wingham Ironmen season ended with an instant classic, five overtime 5-4 defeat in the first round of the playoffs.
With the provincial championships right around the corner in early April, several Huron Heat teams are working through the tail end of their playoff runs, some finding a bit more success than others.
The playoffs have drawn to a close for the last Blyth Brussels Crusaders hope with the U11 Black team falling in two games to the Drayton Defenders over the weekend.
On Saturday night, the Seaforth Centenaires edged out a win over the Tavistock Royals by a score of 2-1 at home in Seaforth.
Richard and Chenai Chimbetete arrived in Toronto on Feb. 1 after an 18-hour long journey from Harare, Zimbabwe.
Recently, F.E. Madill's own Ainsley Garniss went to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association (OFSAA) Swimming Championship in Windsor and brought home gold.
By the time you're reading this, the playoffs will be wrapped up for the Southwest Admirals teams, with playoff series now behind them and the 2026/2027 season to look forward to.
The Huron County 4-H Leaders' Association presented its annual year-end awards late last month in Clinton, honouring the best and brightest 4-H members the county has to offer.
Over the weekend, the U13 B Huron Heat claimed gold at the 44th annual Walter Gretzky Tournament, hosted by the Brantford Ice Cats, going through the proceedings with a dominant undefeated performance in which they only allowed one goal all tournament.
After a decent-sized skirmish in the dying minutes of game four of the first-round playoff series between the Seaforth Centenaires and the Milverton Four Wheel Drives on Saturday in Seaforth, the home team plotted the ultimate revenge: winning the game.
Despite a huge gap between the two teams in the regular season standings, game one of the first-round playoff series between the second-place Hanover Barons and last-place Wingham Ironmen went to overtime...
This May, the work of the All Access Athletics Association will begin in earnest with its first charitable intake and a slate of events through the remainder of the year.
As a contentious and difficult budget process has continued, Huron County Council is closing in on what members think is a more reasonable increase to the tax levy by eliminating the multi-million-dollar construction of a new roundabout just west of...
After more than three hours of presentations and discussions, both in open session and behind closed doors, Huron County Council is no closer to finalizing its 2026 budget, but had plans to revisit it at its Feb. 18 meeting.
The Citizen has been shortlisted for two 2025 Ontario Community Newspapers Association (OCNA) Better Newspapers Competition Awards while also receiving two honourable mentions.
Next Friday, Cowbell Brewing Co. is hosting the launch of a new ready-to-drink beverage made to honour a Blyth native that the village lost far too soon, all in the name of creating and supporting a new scholarship.
Last week in Blyth, Brenda Campbell of the Seaforth area was presented with her 2025 Huron County Citizen of the Year Award by Citizen Publisher Deb Sholdice.
Last week at the Brussels Agricultural Society's first regular meeting of the year, Linda Garland was presented with her Citizen of the Year Award for the Brussels area. North Huron Publishing Board Member Ralph Watson did the honours.
January must be creative space ribbon-cutting season in Blyth, as not one but two artistic enterprises officially opened their doors on Queen Street last Friday. Just a few storefronts away from Fabhaus Gallery + Café is Miniature Masterpieces...
On Jan. 31, the "soft opening" of a new establishment on Queen Street in Blyth quickly shifted gears, turning from a low-key ribbon cutting into an end-of-month celebration as locals came out in full force to welcome Fabhaus Gallery + Fare...