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■ Sports / Sports
Red Sox will miss Hannam, says owner  Share Comments Photos 
Updated 18 hours ago
Len Hannam has announced he is resigning as general manager of the champion Brantford Red Sox to spend more time with his family. "Frieda and I are going to be fans," Hannam said of his future plans with his wife, who also was involved with the team. [more]
■ Arts/Life / Entertainment
Performer to cap 8-hour eventShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Those who attended last year's Concert for A Cure at Chiefswood Park will be pleased to learn that one of the most popular performers at the event is returning as this year's headliner. Crystal Shawanda brings her big voice and award-winning country sound to Six Nations on Sept. [more]
■ Sports / Sports
Sports BriefsShare 
Posted 22 hours ago
TITLES TO NISSAN Brantford Nissan captured two titles at the Slo-Pitch Provincial Championships at Slo-Pitch City in Dorchester. Nissan was undefeated, beating Toronto 15-4 in the championship game of the 40-plus division. [more]
■ News / Local News
Fund helps farmer go greenShare Comments Photos 
Updated 20 hours ago
SCOTLAND -Thanks to a new solar panel unit erected in his soybean field, organic grower Ted Shelegy is plugged into a new revenue source that fits his green perspective about agriculture and sustainable rural life. [more]
■ Arts/Life / Entertainment
Festival to feature 36filmsShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
The first Brantford Film Festival has caught even its organizers off -guard with the amount of buzz it's creating. "There were so many submissions it took us forever to review the films," Brantford Arts Block executive director Josh Bean said. [more]
■ News / Editorial
Proud of ECP employeesShare 
Posted 22 hours ago
I am very proud of the striking employees of Engineered Coating Products. It was a nice picture indeed, on the front page of the Sept. 7 Expositor. These people are fighting for every Canadian, not just themselves. [more]
■ Arts/Life / Lifestyle
in the NEWSShare Comments 
Posted 22 hours ago
DIE-OFF NOT OUR FAULT A massive reduction in grasslands and the spread of forests may have been the primary cause of the decline of mammals such as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino and cave lion, according to Durham University scientists. [more]
■ News / Local News
Waterford athlete makes doping historyShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Waterloo Warriors rookie running back Matt Socholotiuk has made North American sports history. It's for a record, though, no one wants to hold. [more]
■ Arts/Life / Lifestyle
Mom shouldn't have to chooseShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Dear Tom: My boyfriend has an issue with my son. They pushed each other and my boyfriend was hit in the nose and called the police. My son had very difficult childhood; I lost my husband when my son was two-years-old. [more]
■ News / Local News
Gunners Club 'is back'Share Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
The Gunners Club is inviting people to put on their pedal-pushers and poodle skirts and step out to Rock and Roll Heaven on Saturday. [more]
■ News / Local News
Downtown to get quick spruce-upShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Downtown is getting a quickie cleanup this Saturday, in advance of the third annual Brantford International Jazz Festival, Sept. 18 and 19. Some vacant storefronts will get temporary businesses put in them, while others will have their windows covered with attractive art posters. [more]
■ News / Local News
Weeds a growing concern for cityShare Comments Photos 
Updated 20 hours ago
Creeping infestations of weeds into sports fields, parks and traffic islands, along with the loss of 75% of the city's decades-old Lorne Park rose garden, are some of the local consequences of a provincewide herbicide and pesticide ban initiated in the spring of 2009. [more]
■ News / Local News
Ex-mayor seeks seat on councilShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
A former mayor and MPP says he wants to use his political experience to help resolve many longstanding problems facing city council. [more]
■ News / Local News
Area's trails celebratedShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
A free hike and bike event takes place in Brantford on Saturday to celebrate the area's trails. In conjunction with Ontario Heritage Trust's Trails Open Ontario, Tourism Brantford is promoting a local event featuring a 20-kilometre bike ride and a 2.5-kilometre hike. [more]
■ News / Editorial
Long-gun registry debate has taken up too much timeShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Watching the NDP try to figure out what to do come Sept. 22 -- when a vote to scrap the long-gun registry comes to the House of Commons -- has become an overwrought drama. This issue is such a splitter that it begs the question why the Conservatives are spending so much political capital on it. [more]
■ Business / Business
Rates hiked for 3rd timeShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Mortgage costs for many Canadians went up for the third time this year on Wednesday, with the tone of the central bank's comments on the economy casting some doubt on forecasts for a pause in future hikes. [more]
■ News / Local News
'Really sad' ending for StoreimageShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
The remnants of a once-proud city company that employed a lot of people for more than 100 years soon will be on the auction block. Office equipment, tools, vinyl cutters, forklifts as well as printers that were once used by the employees of Storeimage Programs Inc. [more]
■ Arts/Life / Lifestyle
Electronic device radiation lurks everywhereShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Last week I reported that "dirty electricity," generated by computers and other electrical devices, has been linked to unexplained aches and pains, depression, sleepiness, ringing in the ears, headaches, and a foggy brain. [more]
■ News / National
Deaths preventable: ReportShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
Prisoners in Canada's toughest jails should have access to 24-hour health-care coverage, the country's prisons ombudsman says in a new report listing ways to prevent inmate deaths. [more]
■ News / Local News
Triplex plan raises ire of neighboursShare Comments 
Updated 20 hours ago
A man who wants to build a triplex in Echo Place where he and his wife can retire and rent the two other units for income is going back to the drawing board after running into resistance from the neighbourhood. [more]