LOCAL HEADLINES

Since the start of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) regular season, Cobourg Cougars’ head coach Derek Smith has been preaching, cajoling and perhaps behind closed dressing room doors, flat-out demanding that his players pay closer attention to detail on the defensive end of the rink.

After a hard-fought battle last Friday, the Port Hope Panthers lost 6-2 in Campbellford to the Trent Hills Thunder.

Here is a look at some of our favourite shots from the West Northumberland Wild Halloween Havoc tournament.

Adapting to junior hockey hasn’t been an easy-peasy proposition for Port Hope Panthers’ rookie goaltender Liam Diarias who’s experienced his share of peaks and valleys in the short time he’s played at this level.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious with each passing game that the Collingwood Blues may have blundered in sending talented forward Brant Romaniuk to the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Cobourg Cougars.

A long-time Cobourg Lawn Bowling Club member is expecting much better results at this year’s World Bowls Junior Indoor Championship after she fell victim to Murphy’s Law – i.e. whatever can go wrong will go wrong, at last year’s worlds.

Brant Romaniuk has been “all over the place” in his young junior hockey career, but he now hopes he can settle in with the Cobourg Cougars for the remainder of this season.

With the community rallying around a multi-million-dollar renovation at the Haldimand Community Memorial Arena in Grafton, the project is expected to cross the finish line this year.

The Cobourg Cougars honoured National Day of Truth and Reconciliation by hosting an evening to commemorate “Orange Shirt Day” in remembrance of the lost children and survivors of residential schools at their game on Monday, Sept. 28.

Rookie forward Garrett Jones had exactly zero concerns about signing on with the Cobourg Cougars for the current junior hockey campaign.

Newly minted captain Isaac Larmand couldn’t hide his excitement in his comments after his Cobourg Cougars came out on the right end of the score at the club’s home opener at the Cobourg Community Centre on Monday, Sept. 14.

Since manager/player Brendan Tink joined the Port Hope Flyers’ senior baseball team nine years ago, the goal has always been to capture a provincial championship.

With a successful pre-season schedule now behind them, the Cobourg Cougars seem ready for the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) regular-season campaign to start.

Entering the four-game pre-season schedule, Cobourg Cougars’ head coach Derek Smith says he was looking to get a good look at the rookies vying for a job on the roster.

Surveying the scene from a vantage point above the rink, Cobourg Cougars president and general manager Ryan Ramsay is buoyed by what he saw unfolding on the ice below as training camp opened at the Cobourg Community Centre (CCC) on Aug. 20.

Following an intense weekend on the diamonds, the U9 AA Northumberland Jacks have captured the Eastern Ontario Baseball Association (EOBA) division championship title.

Cobourg’s Sheri Perkins and Lynn Bryans have secured bronze medals after the Ontario Ladies’ Novice Pairs Championships hosted at the Cobourg Lawn Bowling club over the weekend.

Honouring a long-time leader who dedicated much of his life to community in Port Hope will be the focus of a first-time fundraising baseball tourney on Saturday, Aug. 15.