Give Back Awards honour exceptional local graduates

Exceptional students from across York Region were celebrated at Magna’s Aurora headquarters last week as Neighbourhood Network bestowed Give Back Awards on 20 members of the Class of 2025. The Give Back Awards, a long-time initiative of the local organization ...

Mayor, Youth Committee leaders launch Youth Week with flag-raising ceremony

Mayor Tom Mrakas and the Town’s Youth Engagement Committee members delivered a series of engaging speeches at Town Hall on Thursday afternoon to usher in ...

Aurora set to have its first Pride Festival, kickoff

Aurorans celebrate Pride Month in various ways, but for the first time this year, the community will have a Pride Festival to call its own. ...

Southlake Run nears $500,000 goal – with fundraising window set to close Friday

The 2025 Nature’s Emporium Run for Southlake, which took place on Newmarket’s Davis Drive on Sunday, April 27, was another resounding success for the local ...

Gas Tax funding will help support local transit services

Local transit services will benefit from a significant funding from the Province of Ontario. On Friday, Newmarket-Aurora MPP Dawn Gallagher Murphy announced $17 million, funded ...

Lacing up for Alzheimer Walk supports valuable community programs

Most people have been impacted by someone’s journey with dementia. It can be an isolating time for those living with it and their caregivers alike, ...

Local musician jazzes up Town Square, fosters youth talent

For many seasons, local music lovers flocked to the home of James Brown in Aurora’s historic downtown core for a series of house concerts with ...

Keeping Arboretum pest-free is everyone’s business: organization

The Aurora Community Arboretum is one of Aurora’s most popular, yet somehow still unsung, green spaces – but everybody needs to follow a few simple ...

Said Through Silence takes artistic look at how tech has changed our lives

William Lottering exchanged many ideas with his students as a long-time art teacher at Aurora High School. He was, of course, a generation or two ...

Councillors approve 20 year DC deferral for rental developments and discuss a First Time Homeowner Rebate

Aurora Council continued its discussions on addressing the affordable housing crisis on Tuesday, April 22, focusing on initiatives to support rental development and homeownership. One ...

Garden Aurora’s Plant Sale and Gardens of Distinction” recognition program are horticultural attractions in May

Just in time for Spring planting, the Aurora Garden and Horticultural Society will host its annual Plant Sale on Sunday, May 25 from 11 a.m. ...

Mayor, Youth Committee leaders launch Youth Week with flag-raising ceremony

Mayor Tom Mrakas and the Town’s Youth Engagement Committee members delivered a series of engaging speeches at Town Hall on Thursday afternoon to usher in ...

Give Back Awards honour exceptional local graduates

Exceptional students from across York Region were celebrated at Magna’s Aurora headquarters last week as Neighbourhood Network bestowed Give Back Awards on 20 members of ...

Aurora set to have its first Pride Festival, kickoff

Aurorans celebrate Pride Month in various ways, but for the first time this year, the community will have a Pride Festival to call its own. ...

Team Canada Dragon Boat paddler Dave Hunt is bound for Brandenburg in quest of World Championship gold

After supervising St. Anne’s School’s inaugural “Flight Club Classic” track meet and putting the SAC Track and Field squad through its paces on a busy ...

SAS Cygnets capture seven golds at first annual “Flight Club Classic” track and field meet

The first annual Flight Club Classic was hosted by St. Anne’s School on Friday at SAC. The eight-team Track and Field meet featured competitors from ...

Southlake Run nears $500,000 goal – with fundraising window set to close Friday

The 2025 Nature’s Emporium Run for Southlake, which took place on Newmarket’s Davis Drive on Sunday, April 27, was another resounding success for the local ...

AMHA caps successful season by celebrating five championship teams and hosting OHF Playoffs

Aurora Tigers rep teams captured an OMHA U16 Title and Four President Cup Gold Medals in 2024-25

Aurora Sports Hall of Fame members reflect on “remarkable year” at its Annual General Meeting

More than 40 members and guests attended the Aurora Sports Hall of Fame Annual General Meeting on Wednesday night at the Aurora Public Library. President ...

Moraine Relay set to return after five-year absence

The popular Oak Ridges Moraine Adventure Relay is set to return this June after the global pandemic pushed it onto the backburner. The Oak Ridges ...

Junior Panthers settle for silver in 2-1 loss to OHA Mavericks in OWHL Consolation Final

The U22 Central York Panthers had to settle for silver medals in a narrow 2-1 loss to the OHA Mavericks in the OWHL Consolation Championship ...

Aurora Tigers’ Assistant Captain Jack Rispin commits to NCAA Lake Forest College Foresters

Aurora Tigers’ Assistant Captain and veteran defender Jack Rispin committed to the NCAA Division 3 Lake Forest College Foresters last Wednesday. The commitment to the ...

Kingston kiboshes Junior Panthers’ OWHL playoff series comeback with dramatic 3-2 Shootout victory

In a stunning upset on Saturday afternoon at SARC, the #10-seeded Kingston Ice Wolves edged the #7-seeded Central York Panthers 3-2 in a Shootout to ...

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 ...

Local musician jazzes up Town Square, fosters youth talent

For many seasons, local music lovers flocked to the home of James Brown in Aurora’s historic downtown core for a series of house concerts with ...

Aurora set to have its first Pride Festival, kickoff

Aurorans celebrate Pride Month in various ways, but for the first time this year, the community will have a Pride Festival to call its own. ...

Theatre Aurora’s Noises Off: A Review

By Scott Johnston Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right? Well, that’s what the director of the fictional play “Nothing On” has ...

Fifth-annual Black History Gala celebrates Unity, Culture, and Legacy

Earth Month programs celebrate seeds, pollinators, reuse and landmark trees

April is Earth Month and the Aurora Public Library has grown a full crop of activities to help sow the seeds of a greener future ...

Royal Three-Peat? Sugaring Aurora Project vies for third consecutive maple syrup Gold Medal at 2025 Winter Fair

Dave Hunt and Rob Gaby’s Rite of Spring commences when daily temperatures stay between -5 to +5 – the ideal range that initiates the sweet ...

Estate of Helen Lucas partners with Cultural Centre for spring sale

Sprouting flowers are synonymous with Spring’s arrival, and, if you’re a local art lover, there are fewer names more synonymous with flowers than Helen Lucas, ...

Easter Bunny is hopping excited for Town’s annual Egg-Stravaganza

Easter scavenger hunt on now ahead of April 19

Brevik Hall becomes “Collaboratory” for musicians with new summer residency program

If you are a performing artist looking to take your craft and career to the next level, a new summer residency program offered by the ...

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 ...

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