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Apr 16, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Mary Beth Corcoran • No Comments
The Ford government delivered its first provincial budget recently, one that may be surprising to critics who were expecting a “slash-and-burn” style of debt reduction. Rick Nicholls, MPP for Chatham-Kent Leamington, is busy promoting the first budget,...
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Apr 16, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Sarah Schofield • No Comments
CKSY’s Chris McLeod and CKXS’s Greg Hetherington helped to auction some of this year’s items at the Festival of Giving, including a guitar signed by David Bowie and borrowing RM/Sotheby’s Batmobile for 24 hours. Held at the John D. Bradley...
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Apr 16, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
The Fifth Street Bridge is now closed, and will remain shut down to vehicular traffic for a month. Municipal officials closed the easternmost bridge over the Thames River in downtown Chatham on Monday to help expedite work along the bridge, and to help...
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Apr 16, 19 •
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An early-morning incident at an apartment building in Dresden has a man facing several charges. Chatham-Kent police say about 3 a.m., someone kicked in the lobby door at the apartment building. The culprit fled prior to police arriving on the scene, but...
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Apr 16, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Chatham Voice • 1 Comment
Chatham-Kent police are investigating a break-in in South Kent. Sometime overnight on April 14 to 15, someone forced their way into a Shrewsbury residence through the front door. The thieves made off with about $7,500 in items. Anyone with information is...
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Apr 15, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
As council was to consider what to do with a report from its integrity commissioner in regard to the conduct of former councillor Derek Robertson, he was also pondering his next move. Paul Watson, Chatham-Kent’s integrity commissioner, said in his report to...
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Apr 15, 19 •
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So, the supposedly stolen car wasn’t really stolen, police say. Officers responded to the site of an abandoned vehicle in a field on Eighth Line near Merlin Road Thursday morning. The owner subsequently reported the vehicle, a 2017 Porsche Cayenne, as...
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Apr 11, 19 •
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A Chatham man faces a slew of drug and weapons charges following the biggest drug seizure in Chatham-Kent history Wednesday night. Chatham-Kent police raided an apartment in Chatham, seizing a $2.6 million worth of a litany of drugs, including cocaine,...
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Apr 11, 19 •
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Despite being released from court with the condition of not communicating with a certain woman, Chatham-Kent police say a Morpeth man was caught yesterday afternoon driving around with the woman. Police were tipped that the man and the woman were cruising...
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Apr 11, 19 •
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Police ask for the public’s help in tracking down who stole a couple of bikes recently in Chatham, valued at a combined $2,100. Sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, someone got into a shed on Peterborough Drive and stole a white and...
