LOCAL HEADLINES

The Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation (SPCCF), an organization dedicated to philanthropic giving and serving as the steward of funds earmarked for local charitable causes, is looking for new board members to support its mission across Stratford, St. Marys and Perth County.

The Stratford Country Club (SCC) will once again provide meals for those in need as part of the Giving Tuesday campaign, but with a new donation timeframe.

Country music fans rejoice. A Nashville Takeover is happening in town April 10-12 as one of thirteen towns nationwide selected for the concert series. The three-day experience will bring fifteen top emerging singer/songwriters from Nashville and across Canada to perform in intimate settings all around town.

The Huron-Perth Lakers U16 AAA participated in the 2025 Gloria Rants Memorial International Silver Stick in Whitby during the weekend of Nov. 27 through Nov. 30.

The weather outside this past weekend was frightful, but the results for the Stratford Hunter Steel Warriors remained delightful as they defeated the Pelham Panthers 2-1 at the Meridian Community Complex in Pelham on Nov. 30.

Leah Morgan, director of Bosom Buddies of Stratford, had never fundraised before. “I figured, ‘Hey, why not you give it the old college try and see what happens?’” Morgan recounted to the Times.

The streets of Downtown Stratford were bustling once again with lots of holiday merriment last weekend.

One of the most-anticipated Stratford holiday traditions is returning for its 37th year on Dec. 13 at the Stratford Rotary Complex.

Before facing the Six Nations Ironmen on Nov. 22, the Stratford Irish made a series of transactions in a span of 48 hours.

The now beloved tradition of Rod Beattie’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol is returning to the Stratford Perth Museum for three performances in December. This one-man show is riveting to children and adults alike as Beattie masterfully transforms into each of the characters driving the story before the audience’s eyes.

Students at the Stratford Campus of Conestoga College are looking for community support to ensure seniors living with dementia have a comforting gift for the holidays.

According to Optimism Place, a Stratford-based women’s shelter, Perth County OPP receive more than 600 calls a year regarding intimate partner violence.

Off The Wall (OTW) held it’s fall fundraiser Nov. 24, themed “A Scandalous Affair” and inspired by the Stratford Festival’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The evening saw a near sold out crowd of supporters and former students gather for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in excited anticipation of the evening’s entertainment provided by none other than Sara-Jeanne Hosie and Liam Tobin from this year’s production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The stars were accompanied on the piano by Kare

The U11 A Stratford Aces captured the gold medal at the Stratford Festival Cup Challenge on Nov. 14-16.

The level of optimism was very high for the Stratford Hunter Steel Warriors as they entered the week with a four-game winning streak and faced the St. Thomas Stars and the Strathroy Rockets on home ice.

Local fiddle fans and those who enjoy Christmas music or a good, old-fashioned variety show will have two opportunities next month to catch Canadian fiddle champion Scott Woods and his band perform their Christmas Hoedown.

Local architect Robert Ritz wants the public to start thinking of the Grand Trunk building as the solution, not the problem.

In a letter to the editor published in the Times on Nov. 21, Ken Dodd called the recently distributed 360 litre recycling carts “ginormous” and “wrong on many levels.”

The Huron-Perth Lakers U16 AAA squad continued its strong start to the 2025-2026 ALLIANCE season with two wins this past week.

Stratford is no stranger to the world stage and here is another opportunity to be present internationally. SpringWorks-PuppetWorks! has undertaken an ambitious project to not only program outstanding puppetry in all forms, but also to conceive and construct a strolling creation to represent Stratford locally and beyond.