LOCAL HEADLINES

With their latest $10,000 donation, 100 Women Who Care Wilmot are supporting ball players in New Dundee and throughout Wilmot Township

East Zorra-Tavistock Township’s 2025 budget will likely be passed this week with a 6.95 per-cent increase for ratepayers.

Mike Harris has won re-election as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Kitchener-Conestoga.

Ernie Hardeman successfully kept Oxford blue in the 2025 provincial election, capturing 55 per cent of the vote.

Wilmot Township council has passed an 18.22 per-cent tax increase for 2025.

Tim Louis, member of parliament for Kitchener-Conestoga, appointed as the parliamentary secretary to the minister of Canadian heritage.

East Zorra-Tavistock (EZT) has tabled its 2025 draft budget as council members grapple with a proposed 8.25 per cent increase.

They fired everything they had against a hot goalie but, in the end, the hot goalie proved to be the difference.

The Region of Waterloo and its six member municipalities are hoping to better engage area residents with municipal projects and initiatives following the recent launch of the region’s new-and-improved EngageWR online public-engagement platform.

Wellesley began the Provincial Junior Hockey League’s (PJHL) Doherty Division with a focus on team defence but turned in an impressive offensive performance in a first-round sweep of Dorchester.

The Nith Valley Ecoboosters and Reep Green Solutions are looking to educate area residents on why and how they should transition their home from natural gas to electricity.

Grace Harper currently lives in the County of Perth Wellington, just north of Oxford County, but she is no stranger to the local area.

The most consistent, volatile winter weather we have seen in years led to most of us staying home all weekend and early into this week.

Though Wellesley council has approved the budgeted purchase of a new tandem roll-off truck

The Provincial Junior Hockey League’s (PJHL) first-round playoff matchups are set and what that means for Tavistock is a date with geographical rival New Hamburg.

Resulting from concerns over student safety from parents at St. Clements Catholic Elementary School, Wellesley council has amended the township’s traffic and parking bylaw to include a no-stopping provision on the north side of Church Street between Hergott Road and Charles Street in St. Clements from 8-10 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Overtime was not kind to Tavistock on the weekend as they dropped a pair of games to Saugeen Shores in extra time, 4-2 on the road and 5-4 at home.

“Start the Presses!” was the big headline in the Saturday, Feb. 15 online edition of The Paris Independent.

Students in Intro to Sustainability course at Wilfrid Laurier University are helping to create a sustainable future

A proposal from staff at East Zorra-Tavistock (EZT) Township to eliminate a month’s worth of ice at the Tavistock and District Rec Centre