• Bush and The Offspring to headline two-day CallHome Music Festival

    Bush and The Offspring to headline two-day CallHome Music Festival
    Brantford’s Jamie Stephens is excited about the lineup for this summer’s two-day CallHome Music Festival, now in its tenth year.“The only change this year is the larger investment in talent, bringing in some big names to Brantford,” Stephens, the festival organizer, said. “We’ve always had one marquee name on Saturday and fleshed it out with a really strong lineup for the whole weekend. This year we’ve taken that model and did it on Friday as well. It&r
  • Renovations greenlighted for Bawcutt Centre in Paris

    Renovations greenlighted for Bawcutt Centre in Paris
    County of Brant Council has given the green light to renovations of The Bawcutt Centre at 13 Burwell Street in Paris.Wingbury Properties will oversee the project and seek commercial tenants for the County-owned property – formerly the Paris Old Town Hall – drawing on its successful renovation and operation of Wincey Mills, the former Canadian Tire store on Mechanic Street in downtown Paris.“I am very pleased to have a plan in place for the future of The Bawcutt Centre,”
  • Yummy, yummy

    Yummy, yummy
    Bonnie Camm (left), President and CEO of the Brant Community Healthcare System, chef Breanne Coulton of Compass One Healthcare Canada, Indigenous Foods Consultant chef Rick Powless, and Michelle Bomberry, manager of Indigenous Health Services at BCHS show an Indigenous patient meal consisting of perch, Three Sisters soup, green beans with read peppers and sunflower seeds, potato wedges, and a mixed berry wild rice dessert that will be offered to patients starting next week. A full Indigenous me
  • Influencers give BCI student a boost in winning Boughner scholarship

    Influencers give BCI student a boost in winning Boughner scholarship
    Emma Martin is surrounded by influencers – the kind who can have a big impact on a person’s life.A graduating student at Brantford Collegiate Institute (BCI), Martin will be fulfilling her dream of pursuing a post-secondary in the fall with financial support after winning the James Boughner Scholarship.Named after a retired businessman and philanthropist, the $25,000 scholarship is presented annually to a student from one of the six high schools in Brantford and Brant County. To qua
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  • Brantford's Spencer Walsh 'emotional' after being drafted by CFL's Edmonton Elks

    Brantford's Spencer Walsh 'emotional' after being drafted by CFL's Edmonton Elks
    Brantford’s Spencer Walsh remembers being drafted by the Edmonton Elks this past spring, he just doesn’t clearly recall the conversation he had with head coach Mark Kilam.“I kind of blocked it out when I got drafted,” said the six-foot-three, 295-pound Wilfrid Laurier University offensive tackle, who was selected in the fourth round (32nd overall).“I didn’t even hear what the coach was telling me. I was just sort of agreeing with everything he said. Then I pu

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