Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? The teenage cast of “The SpongeBob Musical,” a Young Theatre Players production on stage in Simcoe this month. SpongeBob and his friends band together to save their undersea home of Bikini Bottom from an imminent volcanic eruption.

Grand Erie Public Health was born on the first day of 2025, the result of months of merger talks between the health units that had overseen Haldimand-Norfolk and Brantford-Brant. A week later, as staff were still setting up their new email accounts, the measles virus appeared in the largely rural community southwest of Hamilton. That first case of the highly contagious respiratory disease once considered eradicated in Canada led to many more, with Dr. Malcolm Lock formally declaring a measles

A tax sale in November netted nearly $387,000 for Norfolk County after four property owners coughed up years of unpaid taxes and three high bidders walked away from their purchases. Only one of the 11 properties initially put on the auction block in the fall actually sold at the Nov. 5 auction. But tax collector Rob Fleming explained the point of the exercise was not to sell the properties but to compel their owners to settle their property tax bills.