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Local group looking to ‘Restore the Roar’ for Uxbridge SS football
DARRYL KNIGHT The Standard After a hiatus of more than a decade, the roar of football will echo once again through the halls of Uxbridge...
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May 1, 20242 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
By Pat Asling Talk about the “green, green grass, of Home!” With this rain, it just keeps getting greener and longer. A few people, like...

The Standard
May 1, 20244 min read


Ontario creating new funding to build and upgrade sports and recreation centres
DAN CEARNS The Standard DURHAM/KAWARTHA LAKES: The Ontario provincial government is looking to help communities upgrade and create new...

Dan Cearns
Apr 24, 20241 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
PAT ASLING Special to The Standard Strange weather. Guess we are paying for all that lovely warmth and sunshine we had earlier in the...
darryl knight
Apr 24, 20245 min read


Scugog approves restarting the process to create a new animal shelter
DAN CEARNS The Standard SCUGOG: The New Animal Shelter for Uxbridge-Scugog project seems to be taking a step forward, five years after it...

Dan Cearns
Apr 17, 20242 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
PAT ASLING Special to The Standard Mid-April already and we certainly have had plenty of those April showers of poem and song. Maybe...

The Standard
Apr 17, 20245 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
PAT ASLING Special to The Standard Another strange week has gone by but hopefully winter has given its final blow. I think the worst...

The Standard
Apr 10, 20244 min read


Maudern Times - “Maud’s Museum: The Next Step”
Barb Pratt, LMMSO The Historic Leaskdale Church, formerly St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, is now a Visitor’s Centre, Welcome Centre,...

The Standard
Apr 2, 20242 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
PAT ASLING Special to The Standard I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Easter weekend. It wasn’t the best of weather, neither was...

The Standard
Apr 2, 20244 min read


Uxbridge plucks plan for backyard chickens
DARRYL KNIGHT The Standard UXBRIDGE: In keeping with a recent report from the Durham Agricultural Advisory Committee (DAAC), as well as...
darryl knight
Mar 27, 20241 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
PAT ASLING Special to The Standard The non-winter continues! By the time you read this all the snow that dumped on us Thursday will be...

The Standard
Mar 27, 20244 min read


Uxbridge Bruins eliminated from PJHL playoffs
DARRYL KNIGHT The Standard The Uxbridge Bruins’ decades-long quest for a provincial championship will have to wait at least another year...
darryl knight
Mar 21, 20241 min read


Zephyr Library Open House on April 20th
DARRYL KNIGHT The Standard UXBRIDGE: Next month, local stakeholders can learn more about a proposed plan to move the Zephyr branch of the...
darryl knight
Mar 21, 20241 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
by Pat Asling What can be said about this yoyo weather? It’s good, it’s bad, it’s scary, so unpredictable. Well, the forecasters have...

The Standard
Mar 21, 20244 min read


Zephyr and Sandford news
by Pat Asling Its official! 2023 was the warmest year on record and the first three months of this year are breaking all records as well....

The Standard
Mar 13, 20244 min read


Sandford & Zephyr news
by Pat Asling A week or so ago I brought into the house some branches of my star magnolia, one of the earlier blooming of my shrubs. I...

The Standard
Mar 6, 20245 min read


Maudern Times - A Big Birthday Celebration
NORTH DURHAM: Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30, 1874, in Clifton, now New London, in Prince Edward Island. After a life of...

The Standard
Feb 27, 20242 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
PAT ASLING The Standard So winter put in another appearance, just to let us know its hiding around the corners but here we are well past...

The Standard
Feb 27, 20244 min read


From Uxbridge to Los Angeles, Uxperience to Luxperience!
PAT ASLING The Standard UXBRIDGE: Randy Wilson was born and raised in Uxbridge by parents John and Jan. They taught him at an early age...

The Standard
Feb 21, 20243 min read


Zephyr & Sandford news
by Pat Asling Record breaking! What a lovely few days we have had this past week, sun, blue sky, and for this time of year, warm. I am...

The Standard
Feb 13, 20245 min read
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