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In The Wind Coming Over The Sea, Emma Donoghue has crafted - in this reviewer's humble opinion - the best original offering at the Blyth Festival since 2017's The Pigeon King. She's also written something that only an Irish author could write.
Tonight, Friday, July 4, the Huron County Fastball League is back in action in a big way after a short break for Canada Day.
Community members gathered at the Wingham and District Hospital on June 25 for an open house celebrating the opening of the brand new CT Scanner suite.
On Saturday, it was time again for the annual Huron Multicultural Festival, held in Goderich again this year, but at Lions Harbour Park for a change of venue with the construction ongoing on The Square.
A long-term project came to an end at Huron East Council's June 24 meeting, with the presentation of a fire service review for the municipality, but now the work of implementing the nearly 50 recommendations will begin.
On Friday evening, the Blyth Festival kicked off its 51st season in style with Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, starring Richard Comeau, James Dallas Smith, Madeline Kennedy and Randy Hughson.
It's been 50 years since the first issue of The Rural Voice hit Huron County newsstands, and the world of agriculture sure has changed a lot since then. Just flip through one of the magazine's early issues...
On Friday, the 51st season of the Blyth Festival officially began with the opening night of Drew Hayden Taylor's Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion.
Last Saturday night, the Belgrave Community Centre played host to a special talent show for children and open stage for adults in an effort to raise money for the ongoing playground project.
The Belmore Stingers remain in first place in the Huron County Fastball League standings, but the Sebringville Sting and Monkton Muskrats are closing the gap, with both sitting just two points back from the league leaders.
For her Blyth Festival debut, Vancouver-based actor Masae Day made a big impression in 2023's The Donnellys: A Trilogy, in which she played as both Maggie Thompson and Bridget Donnelly.
When actor and playwright Nathan Howe first came out to Huron County, he'd just moved to Toronto from Saskatoon. It being his first time travelling around the province, he trusted Google to get him there.
In selecting a director for the world premiere of Nathan Howe's new play, Radio Town: The Doc Cruickshank Story, Blyth could do no better than Festival veteran J.D. Nicholsen. Luckily, Nicholsen himself couldn't agree more.
Actor and musician George Meanwell is back in Blyth, and he's brought some of his favourite instruments along with him. The veteran is taking on quite a few roles this season, even by Blyth's standards.
In his capacity as one of the Blyth Festival's all-time favourite thespians, Randy Hughson has been it all - heroes, villains and everything in between.
Madeline Kennedy is an actor and lifelong student of the arts who has spent her life immersed in some of Ontario's finest theatrescapes.
This season at the Blyth Festival, two of the three founders are seeing some of their most celebrated works produced. For Keith Roulston's Powers and Gloria, it's only fitting that one of the most accomplished directors in Canada brings his special...
It's hard not to get overwhelmed when considering the impact that Keith Roulston has had not just on the world at large, but what he has meant to Huron County over the past 60 years.
It's tough to beat the original, so when Artistic Director Gil Garratt decided that the Blyth Festival would remount Anne Chislett's Quiet in the Land this season, he went back to where it all began for the show's lighting: Louise Guinand.
Throughout the entire school year, the co-op program at Central Huron Secondary School (CHSS) helps students figure out what they want to do after high school.
A history of Howson and Howson on the eve of its 150th anniversary.
Last Thursday, you may have seen Ed Talone about town in Blyth. He would have been difficult to miss, in a green vintage Toronto hockey jersey and ball cap, sporting a very large backpack...
Building a better organic goat farm in Brussels keeps bio-dynamic farmers Erik and Edda Boettcher's hands full more often than not, but these days, their schedule is even more packed than normal!
Students at Hullett Central Public School show their skills and sportsmanship during the school's annual Track and Field Day on Thursday, June 12.