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At Monday night's meeting, North Huron Council announced the appointment of Chad Kregar as its next fire chief. This won't be Kregar's first time in the hot seat - he's been acting as Interim Director of Fire and Emergency Management since March...
Seven years ago, all the way back in 2017, Huron County hosted one of the most successful International Plowing Matches in recent history.
Central Huron Mayor Jim Ginn has a long family history with local plowing matches. His municipality is now, once again, hosting the Huron County Plowing Match and he's happy to bring people home for a celebration of all things agriculture.
Since winning the Huron County Princess competition last summer, St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School student Rachel Wilts has had the opportunity to positively engage with the local community...
Rachel Gras has learned a lot during her time as the Huron County Queen of the Furrow, and it doesn't look like she has any intention of slowing down once her energetic reign comes to an end.
At this year's Huron County Plowing Match, six young women will be competing to succeed Rachel Wilts as the next Huron County Plowing Match Princess.
At this year's Huron County Plowing Match, five young women will vie for the title of Huron County Queen of the Furrow, following in the footsteps of recent queens...
Huron County Plowmen's Association President Steve Hallahan has a touching, two-generation history with the organization and serves as president and his daughter, Grace, is known as a former Plowing Match Princess.
Huron County Plowmen's Association (HCPA) President Steve Hallahan is just about ready for the annual plowing match, which will be held on the Vermue family's farm near Bayfield this year.
The 96th annual Huron County Plowing Match is taking place near Bayfield this year, and this year's host is the Vermue family, of Vermue Farms Ltd.
Every year, the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival (GCRF) brings performers from all over the world to Huron County. While the opening ceremonies at Lions Harbour Park take place on Friday...
They may have only been performing together for a short period of time, but the intercontinental quartet Fiárock has arrived in Goderich with a considerable amount of musical experience in tow.
Soon, Irish-singer Karan Casey will be packing her bags and coming to Huron County for a weekend of sharing her voice with the guests of the 32nd annual Goderich Celtic Roots Festival (GCRF).
As the Blyth Festival marked its Bonanza Weekend, the Margaret Stephens Stage was also officially dedicated in Memorial Hall. Artistic Director Gil Garratt, left, and members of the Stephens family were on hand for the occasion.
Beverley Cooper's latest play, The Trials of Maggie Pollock, debuted at the Blyth Festival last week. The show offers a fictionalized account of the real-life trials and tribulations of a Huron County woman...
The 2024 Ontario Summer Games were held in London, Ontario this year and Lerissa Stevenson from Brussels and her softball team, the Huron Perth Nationals U17 Tier 1, based out of Crediton/Exeter Ontario, had earned a spot to compete.
With an 8-7 defeat at the hands of the Milverton Millwrights - just their third win of the year - the dream of a perfect season for the Belmore Stingers is over as the team drops to a record of 13-1.
The Blyth Festival's current artistic director, Gil Garratt, was born and raised in Toronto, but he's trying to make up for that fact by living on a working lavender farm near Bayfield while he runs things in Blyth.
While Marion de Vries spent a lot of time with the Blyth Festival over the years, she was only its artistic director for a single season. However, that single season was the Festival's 40th anniversary...
In the mid-1990s, a young actor named Eric Coates began performing at the Blyth Festival - a theatre company he so truly admired - but little did he know that, one day, he would be among the Festival's longest-tenured artistic directors.
The first founder of the Blyth Festival, Keith Roulston had both the dream and the drive to make it happen. The second founder, James Roy, supplied a vision for the future and enough verve to fuel those first few years which meant...
In the barnyard of Blyth Festival artistic directors, there are some who would consider Peter Smith to be a bit of a dark horse, while there are others who might call him a black sheep.
When it came time for Janet Amos to pass the artistic director baton in the mid-1980s after a tremendously successful six-season stint, she turned to Katherine Kaszas, who was still in her 20s at...
Janet Amos can be counted among the most successful artistic directors in Blyth Festival history - and you know that's true because she did it twice.