The ice storm of 2025 is one for the history books. Environment Canada issued freezing rain warnings for the area just before ...

Not even four months into 2025 and we are well into a second election. What has been missing in both the provincial and federal elections, in our opinion, is local all-candidate meetings. Less debates ...

The Creemore Echo has won four awards at the Ontario Community Newspapers Association’s 2024 Better Newspaper Competition, announced at a gala awards presentation in Niagara- on-the-Lake on April 11.

Can you hear trees talking to each other? Can mushrooms save the world? Are bees the super-heroes that can keep our world ...

Anyone lucky enough to visit the Stayner Medical Centre on April 14 would have been treated to cupcakes and coffee during a ...

For anyone itching to get their hands dirty – or not!, gloves optional – there will be a clean-up at Stayner’s hidden gem, The EcoPark, next Saturday, April 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., along with ...

“Agriculture plays a critical role in Ontario’s economy. In addition to providing food for Ontarians, it also significantly contributes to employment rates and the prosperity of other related sectors, ...

Ribbons are cherished mementoes in the agricultural community. Many a rural bedroom is lined with elaborate rosettes and sashes from livestock and horse shows. During the Collingwood Agricultural ...

DNA or not, Kidd Family Auctions is a family business. When Dennis Kidd started the venture a decade ago with business partner Lyn Grose, his parents and two teenage children were involved and he was ...

A pick-up truck inches along the backroads bordering Mulmur and Melancthon. Bert Tupling is at the wheel waving at passing cars and stopping to chat with a cousin. He seems to know everyone on these ...

In the agricultural sector there are off-shoot businesses that provide specialized services to area farmers. Take, for example, seed cleaning. “If you’re not in the farming community it does take some ...

Welcome to The Creemore Echo’s second Ag edition – “Agonomics.” In this year’s edition we are exploring some of the area’s on-farm businesses that are either part of the prime agricultural sector, or ...