LOCAL HEADLINES

A proposal from staff at East Zorra-Tavistock Township to eliminate a month’s worth of ice at the Tavistock and District Recreation Centre turned into an hour-long debate on several issues.

Organizers of the fourth annual Drive-Thru Pork BBQ for the Tavistock Royals Senior hockey team said the event was another tremendous success and was sold out ahead of time with over 400 meals on order.

Tavistock’s late-season struggles continue as they dropped a pair of weekend road games and, as a result, will finish in seventh place in the Provincial Junior Hockey League’s (PJHL) Doherty Division.

Tavistock opened its first-round Ontario Elite Hockey League playoff series with a 5-2 road loss to Saugeen Shores on Friday but turned things around quickly thanks to a 4-2 win on home ice Saturday.

No one would argue being a member of Wilmot Township Council is easy these days.

Khadijah Haliru is a first term councillor for the town of Ingersoll and would like to serve as Oxford County's MPP

New Hamburg swept a pair of weekend games and moved two points ahead of second-place Norwich in the battle for top spot in the Provincial Junior Hockey League’s Doherty Division.

What was once a summer camp for kids in Tavistock has announced plans to open up in a third municipality.

Tavistock didn’t need to win its last regular season game of the season at home Saturday against the Thundercats but they did and in doing so moved Durham to the bottom round of the Ontario Elite Hockey League playoffs.

The Township of Wilmot has made some progress on scaling back a proposed 51 per cent tax hike in its 2025 budget.

The annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference was held in Toronto from Jan. 18 to 20

A familiar face in Oxford County has been acclaimed as the Liberal nominee for the Feb. 27 provincial election.

Tavistock’s Provincial Junior Hockey League season continues to be a struggle but they did manage to earn a point against Norwich on Saturday in front of over 200 fans at the Tavistock and District Recreation Centre.

The Tavistock Agricultural Society sponsors a field crop competition every year in conjunction with their Fall Fair, and the results are now in. The Field Crop committee of the agricultural society state that the basic rules are still the same as always, but the modifications were mainly with conveners for this year.

Tavistock moved into a third-place tie in the Ontario Elite Hockey League standings with a 10-2 drubbing of winless Lucknow. The Royals have 24 points as does Minto, but the 81s have two games in hand.

Sadie-May Harrett has been director of the Tavistock Little Preschool for five years

East Zorra-Tavistock (EZT) council has voted in favour of closing a sewage-dumping station in the parking lot at Queen’s Park in Tavistock

When the Order of Canada recipients were announced recently, one name familiar to many residents in the Waterloo region area was that of Ruth Abernethy.

The Tavistock Community Health Inc. (TCHI) board of directors report it has officially begun refresh plan at the medical building.

A pair of road games earned Tavistock two points but dropped them down a spot in the Ontario Elite Hockey League (OEHL) standings.