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• Beats & Eats festival postponed

  17-07-2026 23:13 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  A combination of expected rain and poor air quality has cause the team behind Saturday’s Brantford Beats & Eats to postpone the event.On Friday, the City of Brantford said it and the partners and vendors involved in the one-day festival, made a joint decision to postpone the day of food, art and music due to health and safety concerns.“As this is an entirely outdoor event, the decision was made to protect the health and safety of attendees, volunteers, vendors, performers and st
  
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• City provides weekly update on downtown Brantford road closures

  17-07-2026 22:52 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  The closure of Icomm Drive in downtown Brantford is expected to remain in place until the end of August.As has been the case in recent weeks, the road has been closed between Colborne Street and Hill Street as underground sanitary infrastructure and road construction work continues, part of Brantford’s Downtown Revitalization Project. Signage indicates detour routes around the road closure.One lane in each direction remains open on Icomm Drive between Hill Street and Clarence Street South
  
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• Many businesses, customers not digging ongoing roadwork in downtown Paris

  17-07-2026 21:10 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  While multi-year “once-in-a-generation” construction work continues in Paris, some downtown business owners say it’s dismantling their sales.The project, dubbed the Downtown Dig, which Brant County says happens every 75 to 100 years, involves replacement of old underground infrastructure, including watermains, sewer lines, and stormwater and utilities buried beneath the road surface.The work began in 2024 and will go on at least another three years. On a recent mid-week mornin
  
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• Shovels hit the ground for Indigenous-led, 12-unit supportive housing project

  17-07-2026 20:40 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  Shovels ceremoniously pierced the dirt on Friday at an emotional ground-breaking for a new Indigenous-led transitional supportive housing project.When it’s complete in the spring or early summer of 2027, the 12-unit Ojistoh House Expansion Project on Campbell Street in Brantford will help address the critical gap in housing and support services for urban Indigenous women, children, youth, gender diverse and Two-Spirit community members experiencing or at risk of homelessness.Grounded in a
  
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• Fentanyl dealer gets extra credit for harsh time in 'inhumane' jail

  17-07-2026 17:03 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  A Brantford judge took pains to explain in court why she was giving a fentanyl dealer extra credit for his time served before he went to prison.Nathan G. Forbes, 29, pleaded guilty to possession of fentanyl for trafficking and breaching probation orders from offences in May 2025, getting a six-and-a-half year sentence.But Justice Colette Good allowed Forbes extra credit for the time he had already served at Maplehurst Correctional Complex, which she pronounced a “problematic institution.&
  
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• Six Nations baseball players attend event at home of Atlanta Braves

  17-07-2026 08:00 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  Two Six Nations baseball players recently had the experience of a lifetime taking part in the Native American All-Star Baseball Showcase at Truist Park, home of major league baseball’s Atlanta Braves.Bradley Froman, 18, and Kaden Thomas, 17, both took part in the event at the end of June.“The level was top notch,” said Thomas, who will be entering Grade 12 at Pauline Johnson Collegiate at the end of the summer.“It was comparable to my club team. It was like the best of t
  
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