March 20, 2025

Aurora hosts inaugural Holi Festival celebration

The Town of Aurora celebrated its first-ever Holi Festival on Saturday, March 15th, at Aurora Town Square.

Winterfresh will keep community fed into spring, throughout year

Winterfresh, the primary annual fundraiser for the York Region Food Network, brought in record numbers last month and now that the numbers are in, the ...

Ontario Human Rights Commission weighs in on emergency housing issue

Ahead of a Special Council meeting set for Tuesday, March 18, which will see four Council members in favour of a men’s transition and emergency ...

AMHA and Town’s “Head Start” hockey program celebrated at SARC

The Town of Aurora and the Aurora Minor Hockey Association celebrated the success of the Head Start hockey program at the SARC New Roads Toyota ...

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Chamber welcomes Interim Director following retirement of Ferri

The Aurora Chamber of Commerce has welcomed new leadership following the retirement of long-time Executive Director Sandra Ferri. Back to the Chamber is Debra Wilson, ...

Public Art Strategy set to come before Council this spring

A long-awaited municipal-wide guide to public art will be coming before Council this spring for review. Funding for public art – such as murals and ...

Feds make significant investment in local watershed health

Efforts to improve ecology in the Lake Simcoe watershed received Federal dollars this month. Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MP Leah Taylor Roy, accompanied by Newmarket-Aurora MP ...

Aurora’s Historic Pet Cemetery restoration sparks debate over hateful language on monuments

As the Town of Aurora continues planning the restoration of its historic Pet Cemetery, debate emerged at last Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting on ...

Cenotaph restoration work will correct a century-old error

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Aurora’s iconic Cenotaph and, amid plans to restore it to its former glory, some century-old corrections are on the ...

Winterfresh will keep community fed into spring, throughout year

Winterfresh, the primary annual fundraiser for the York Region Food Network, brought in record numbers last month and now that the numbers are in, the ...

Ontario Human Rights Commission weighs in on emergency housing issue

Ahead of a Special Council meeting set for Tuesday, March 18, which will see four Council members in favour of a men’s transition and emergency ...

Aurora hosts inaugural Holi Festival celebration

The Town of Aurora celebrated its first-ever Holi Festival on Saturday, March 15th, at Aurora Town Square.

More women need to get into public life, says MP at International Women’s Day event

Aurora-Oak-Ridges-Richmond Hill MP Leah Taylor Roy has been a long-time advocate for gender parity in politics. It’s a principle, she says, that has served many ...

Councillors vote to begin looking into creating a 24-Hour warming and cooling shelter for extreme weather

Aurora Council voted unanimously last week explore the creation of a 24-hour warming and cooling shelter to help residents during extreme weather events. The motion, ...

Sports

Junior Panthers drop Games 1 and 2 of OWHL playoff series versus the Ice Wolves in Kingston

The Central York Junior Panthers will need to run the table in Aurora next weekend to keep their 2024-25 OWHL playoff hopes alive. The U22 ...

AMHA and Town’s “Head Start” hockey program celebrated at SARC

The Town of Aurora and the Aurora Minor Hockey Association celebrated the success of the Head Start hockey program at the SARC New Roads Toyota ...

Junior Panthers swat Oakville Hornets 4-2 to finish regular season on 14-game winning streak

Amber Esterbrooks tallied two goals and Klaire Essex and Avery Johnston scored one each as the U22 Central York Panthers defeated the Oakville Hornets 4-2 ...

Mustangs edge Wildcats 57-54 to capture “The Battle of Aurora” Senior Boys Basketball Tournament

St. Maximilian Kolbe Mustangs captured the Battle of Aurora Senior Boys basketball tournament by edging the Dr. G.W. Williams Wildcats 57-54 on last Thursday afternoon ...

Pickering College Pumas capture dramatic CISAA volleyball, basketball, and hockey gold medals

The Pickering College Pumas captured three CISAA championships in dramatically-different ways over a two-day period at the end of February. The Pumas hoisted hardware in ...

Junior Panthers extend heater to twelve games with narrow victories in Waterloo and Burlington

The Central York Junior Panthers extended their winning streak to 12 games with a pair of timely road wins in Waterloo and Burlington. The Panthers ...

Simon Howard tallies two goals, but Tigers’ third period home ice rally falls short in 5-3 loss to Wellington Dukes

The Aurora Junior Tigers conducted a lightning-fast comeback effort in their final 2024-25 home game on Thursday afternoon at the ACC. Trailing 3-1 late in ...

Junior Tigers split pair with 4-1 win over North York and 5-2 loss to Pickering

On Saturday night at the ACC, the Tigers gave the red-carpet treatment to two veteran players – goaltender Christopher Thompson and defenseman Christian Holden – ...

Erik Powers’s 40-save performance staves off “Valentine’s Day Massacre” in Tigers’ tough 3-2 loss to surging Stouffville Spirit

It was a mismatch on paper on Friday night between playoff-bound Stouffville and the young Aurora Tigers. The OJHL squads’ records suggested that the game ...

Celtics ousted from YRAA playoffs in 51-49 loss to Middlefield Silver Hawks

The Cardinal Carter Celtics Senior Boys Basketball team celebrated the thrill of victory sixteen times this season.  However, the 16-3 powerhouse experienced the agony of ...

Arts & Culture

United Colours of Canada brings country together through comedy

A lot has happened in this world since Martha Chaves first played the Aurora Cultural Centre in the organization’s first comedy show, hosted to march ...

New podcast aims to bring diverse “Ancestral Voices” to the table

A new podcast aims to bring “Ancestral Voices” from diverse backgrounds to the table. Ancestral Voices: We Belong, a new monthly podcast, is led by ...

Radium Girls to be Performed at The Country Day School – Feb 27 & 28, March 1

By Meghan Weinroth It’s 1926 and Radium is thought to be a miracle cure. Teenager Grace Fryer has joined the United States Radium Corporation as ...

MCOYA 2025 showcases powerhouse talents of Grade 12 artists

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APL hopes The Immigrant Story exhibition connects community

The Immigrant Story, an interactive exhibition using words and photographs to highlight the journeys of dozens of newcomers to Canada, opened at the Aurora Public ...

Review: Theatre Aurora’s “The Melville Boys”

By Scott Johnston What can be better (and more Canadian) for two adult brothers than to head into the woods for a weekend of fishing, ...

Cultural Centre to mark 15th anniversary with celebratory concerts

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Holiday baking brings new accolade to Aurora’s Levitt

The holiday season was extra sweet for Aurora resident Steve Levitt as the Great Canadian Baking Show alum took home the trophy in Food Network’s ...

Cenotaph Centennial will see Aurora, King and Stouffville come together in 2025

Aurora, King and Whitchurch-Stouffville will mark the 100th anniversary of its shared Cenotaph, located at the heart of Aurora’s Peace Park, in 2025 with a ...

Jim Lang’s My Day with the Cup and Everyday Hockey Heroes rocket up the Bestsellers charts in time for Christmas giving

2024 has been a great year for best-selling author Jim Lang. The veteran broadcaster’s latest publications, “My Day with the Cup” and “Everyday Hockey Heroes ...

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