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• Long-time Brantford criminal gets long prison sentence

  25-09-2026 22:20 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  A Brantford man with a long criminal record and a longer drug habit told a judge in 2011 his oxycontin addiction had taken everything and made him a monster.“I don’t want to be (that) anymore,” Shawn Joseph Biehn told the court 15 years ago.But, despite a criminal record already filled with breaking and enters, copper thefts, armed robberies and many breaches of court orders, Biehn seemed incapable of getting help or reigning in his criminal tendencies.In 2019 he was arrested
  
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• 'Buzzing boulevards' pilot project proposed for Brantford

  25-09-2026 22:12 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  Brantford is about to embark on a “buzzing boulevards” pilot project.Councillors have recommended for approval a pilot project that would allow 12 residents to plant native species on their boulevards. The project would be led by the Eagle Place Community Association in collaboration with the city.“This is a practical, community-led idea that could support pollinators and give people another option of caring for their boulevards with clear rules to protect safety and accountab
  
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• Day and Stay program reopens at John Noble Home

  25-09-2026 22:08 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  Clients, staff and dignitaries gathered at the John Noble Home in Brantford to celebrate the reopening of its Day and Stay program on Friday after three years of construction.Improvements to the now-37,000 square foot facility that houses the Day and Stay program include a new activity room, new windows and flooring in the bedrooms, improved lighting, heating, and air conditioning, larger wheelchair accessible washrooms, and an overall freshening up of the area.During the construction, Day and
  
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