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Skip to Content Meet the unsung heroes of Port Stanley's Main Beach. Part 14 of our series on people and things that make summer sizzle here • Lifeguards Nate Stokan, left, and Ethan Gauthier do some training at Big Beach in Port Stanley on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. Geoff Robins/The London Free Press With sun-drenched sand, a sparkling shore and a team of lifeguards keeping beachgoers safe, a day at Port Stanley’s Main Beach could almost pass for an episode of Baywatch.

Skip to Content • A BrightDrop electric van is displayed outside GM's Cami auto plant in Ingersoll. Photo taken on Oct. 21, 2025. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press) General Motors won’t sell or close its idled Cami assembly plant in Southwestern Ontario, with the automaker pledging to make the Ingersoll factory a top priority for any military contracts, according to a union report.

Author of the article: •  Special to The London Free Press •   • Hosta plant. (File photo/Postmedia Network) Lots of plants in my garden are starting to look tough. The first thing I normally would do is fertilize but it is too late to be using the fertilizer now. I do not want fertilizer to encourage new growth because there is not enough time left in the season for the new growth to harden off before we get a killing frost.

Skip to Content The 25 per cent counter-tariffs will hit some U.S.-made farm equipment parts, adding pressure to already thin margins. •   • Farm equipment travels along a Southwestern Ontario road on May 26, 2022. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press) Farm machinery manufacturers and sellers in Southwestern Ontario are bracing for higher costs and weaker sales as the Canada-U.S. trade war reaches the agricultural sector.

Public health officials are urging caution following an increase in drug-related deaths and hospital emergency room visits. •   • Grand Erie Public Health has issued a drug alert following a spate of drug-related emergency room visits. File Six suspected drug-related deaths have prompted Grand Erie Public Health to issue an alert for the region. Public health officials say there were six suspected drug-related deaths across Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk between Aug. 1 and Aug. 25.

•   • The Whisper Man. (L-R) Robert De Niro as Peter Willis, Adam Scott as Tom Kennedy and Michelle Monaghan as Amanda Beck in The Whisper Man. Cr. David Lee/Netflix Behind every great crime thriller lies secrets and drama and in Netflix’s The Whisper Man, terror strikes uncomfortably close to home.

Skip to Content Brantford woman has key role in Parton's Imagination Library program in Canada •   • Jeanne Smitiuch (left), senior regional director for Canada for the imagination Library met country music legend Dolly Parton several times, including here in 2016. SUBMITTED PHOTO An outpouring of grief has flooded social media platforms and conversations with the passing on Tuesday of the Dolly Parton, arguably the Queen of Country Music.

Skip to Content • A view of the Joyceville Institution, north of Kingston on Friday December 11, 2020. /The Kingston Whig-Standard A criminal with a cell phone in Kingston’s Joyceville prison accidentally alerted Brantford Police to a local drug dealer back in 2024. Nolan E.

•   • Chief Margaret Sault of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. /BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR U.S. President Donald Trump may move to rename of the American side of Lake Ontario but Margaret Sault says the Great Lake will remain Lake Ontario on this side of the waters.

Police are investigating a sudden death after a body was found in the water at a marina in Port Rowan. •   • /File Police are investigating after a body was found in the water at a marina in Port Rowan. Norfolk County OPP responded to a call for service at about 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.