The Waterloo Catholic District School Board has appointedJulie Molenaarto fill a trustee seat left vacant after Wendy Ashby stepped down in May.

Officers with the Stratford Police Service were called to the city's new rainbow crosswalk by city workers around 1:30 a.m. on Friday for reports household paint had been dumped across the crosswalk and dark spray paint had been used as well.

The lack of city-sanctioned, professional fireworks displays in Canada this July 1, due to the pandemic and urgings to use Canada Day to reflect on the tragic findings at former residential schools, is driving up the sales of consumer fireworks, according to industry experts.