The Parry Sound Area Founders Circle presented its annual Founders Choice Awards on April12.   Georgian Medical Aesthetics won the $10,000 top prize, and A Bushel & A Peck won the $5,000 secondary prize.  The Founders Circle is made up of community leaders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who have invested funds...

West Parry Sound OPP is investigating multiple frauds that have occurred over the past month. According to Constable Brandon Charlebois, local officers have responded to 12 frauds and scams with losses totaling over $100,000. Several of these scams center around tax returns, specifically request to pay the Canada Revenue Agency with...

Parry Sound's first annual mental health symposium will feature information sessions from more than a dozen mental health professionals.  The event, hosted by Sound Youth Counselling and the Doc Rob Fund, will take place at the Parry Sound High School on May 4.  Colleen McLean, owner of Sound Youth Counselling, said...

Water levels will be higher this next week thanks to Friday’s “significant rainfall.”  That from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, which has issued a water safety bulletin for the Black, Burnt, Gull, Magnetawan, and Muskoka River watersheds.  Officials say the heavy downpours can cause flash-flooding, which could impact low-lying...

The Near North District School Board staff are making ‘heroic efforts’ to ensure the quality of care and engagement in learning is at a level students deserve, despite burnout and an increase in “emerging student behaviours”. That’s according to a statement from director of education Craig Myles, raising concerns about...

Hydro One is warning customers of potential damage and outages ahead of a weekend windstorm.  The utility’s Tiziana Baccega-Rosa says damaging gusts are expected in most parts of the province, but some areas will be harder hit. “Very much around the lake shores will see the highest wind gusts that may...