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Gigababy Presents: Education for the driving masses: Driver runs

ONTARIO — A 49-year-old Fordwich, Ont. woman was killed after a driver ran a stop sign yesterday morning in Perth County. Jacqueline Hiemstra was driving east on Perth Line 88, northwest of Gowanstown, at about 8:25 a.m.,    Read more…

 

Building, vehicles destroyed in two-alarm blaze near Sebringville

Wicked winter weather also made the job harder for the fire crews from Sebringville and Milverton. Chief Reis said they needed to park their fire vehicles far enough away to protect them from the flames, which were being pushed Perth County OPP closed Road 130 to help the firefighters. “We had three (water) tankers running up and down the road,” said Chief Reis, who was also pressed into duty ferrying air packs back and forth to the Milverton station to be refilled. ….   Read more…

 

Living In An Icebox

Really and I mean really, cold weather. Right now is not all that bad, considering. (I’ll convert all this into Fahrenheit). Presently, it’s 10 F. The wind chill takes it to -6 F. Tonight it’s dropping to -10, and I’m guessing the wind    Read more…

 

Wet December

It went from winter-like weather to fall and then all the way to spring. December was one of the wettest it has been in sometime. Perth County received an estimated 130 millimetres of precipitation. On top of the rain and snow,    Read more…

 

Free Throws Help Eagles End Losing Streak – Georgia Southern

Statesboro Weather | Current Weather: Clear, 39° The Eagles jumped out to a 5-2 lead thanks to a basket by Sandy Perry (Perth Amboy, N.J./Barton County CC) and an old-fashioned three-point play from Troupe. JSU staged a 16-4 run, as its first four field goal makes were all from 3-point range. Drayton nailed a 3-pointer then followed with two free throws. Colby Wohlleb (Boca Raton, FL/Boca Raton) also hit two free throws and a 3-pointer helping the Eagles …   Read more…

 

Snow Squall Warning

As the first real blast of winter weather moved in last night across Stratford, Perth, Huron and Oxford counties, a new system moving through means we can expect snowsqualls until Monday morning as cold west to northwesterly winds have    Read more…

 

Environment Canada’s Official Weather Warnings

This is a warning that snowsqualls are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather condi fef tions..Listen for updated statements. Jeez…that’s a foot of snow, I was wearing shorts a week.   Read more…

 

A Spring Spin

Despite the abrupt change in the weather I convinced John to drive 60 km to Bayfield on Lake Huron. I wanted to show them the giant windmill there. Then we would head north to Goderich for a neat lunch place.    Read more…

 

West Nile Season Ends

Cooler weather and recent frosts have reduced the mosquito activity in Perth County which has reduced the risk of WNV in the area. This year, West Nile virus activity was very low in Perth County. The first WNV positive bird in the area    Read more…

 

What a blast!

The wintry blast promised by weather forecasters blanketed Perth County and the rest of southwestern Ontario with several centimetres of snow yesterday, creating near whiteout [...]   Read more…

 

Weekend Collisions

it to snap and the wires to fall on the vehicle. The driver was not injured, and there were no injuries in any of the other minor collisions reported. Police remind motorists to adjust their speeds to the road and weather conditions.   Read more…

 

Fast and Delayed (Part II: Montreal to Grimsby Ontario via Toronto)

We should have sped through Perth county, instead of stopping. But nonetheless we did. The operation did last ten minutes, just as the SM had told us. And now we had lost the on time performance, arriving at Kingston at 1440 (sch.    Read more…

 

Snow

The winter weather caused little problem today for drivers. Main routes range from bare and dry to bare and wet. Schools and school buses operated as normal today. The first blast of winter for Stratford and Perth County over the    Read more…

 

Drivers Advised to Beware of Deer

Perth County OPP have investigated 22 vehicle/deer collisions in the past couple of weeks in the county. In Huron County OPP report 15 collisions involving deer in just the first five days of this month. That comes on the heels of 45    Read more…

 

Salvation Army Coat Drive

Winter weather is taking a break this week in Stratford and Perth County – but the need for winter coats isn’t. The Salvation Army in Stratford is holding its annual winter coats drive – and is looking for more donations this week.    Read more…

 

Floods span SW Ont. – Chatham Daily News – Ontario, CA

In Perth County, flooding washed out so many roads, crews were running out of barricades to seal off the roads. In Bayfield, a marina filled with boats was destroyed when an ice jam broke up on the Bayfield River, smashing into riverside A return to normal sub-zero weather today is expected to ease flooding threats, but authorities were taking no chances — issuing a boating ban in London, expected to remain for days, and warning people to stay away from fast-moving ….   Read more…

 

rain-ontario

the high winds knocked down some trees – mostly around shakespeare, st. mary’s, north perth and listowel areas yesterday. perth county opp responded to 12 calls related to the high winds. trees were blocking roadways and one tree was on    Read more…

 

smog advisory

high levels of polluted air are expected from windsor through london and across perth county are the result of hot and sunny weather mixed with variable winds. health authorities recommend that people with breathing difficulties avoid    Read more…

 

short and sweet and not very neat

(photograph: perth county road 119…though the road up ahead is filled with stormy weather, i will continue to place my trust in you, lord.) well i made it through another round of chemotherapy. thursday, august 21st heralded my 4th    Read more…

 

 

 

 

 

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