has produced more than its share of great junior golfers. Most of them get their start on the municipal courses, North-Ridge and Arrowdale, before adding the finesse touches to their game at the Brantford Golf and Country Club. Year after year, juniors are battling for provincial and national [...]

Although the perception exists that developers can merely flash some cash and get whatever they want, a couple of stories in The Expositor over the last week suggest otherwise. In today's edition, the efforts of a group of people to get special protected status for an area near [...]

As talks drag on to end the strike at the city's casino, the CAW is accusing the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. of simply "going through the motions" in bargaining. "We're still grinding away at a number of issues," Hemi Mitic, spokesperson for the CAW's negotiating team, said [...]

A classroom was ransacked, pottery was broken and paint was thrown on walls during a recent break-in to Brantford Collegiate Institute. The break-in took place July 3 when a window was smashed. Various items were strewn about the classroom, police say. The incident was one of several break-ins [...]

Marg Matthews is on a roll. "It's going pretty good this year," the Drumbo resident said after winning the Brantford Golf and Country Club women's invitational tournament Thursday. Matthews, a one-handicapper at the Stratford Golf and Country Club, shot 5-over-80 to win by one stroke over defending champion [...]

Rob Blake is heading up the California coast, hoping to end his stellar NHL career with a shot at another Stanley Cup title in San Jose. The veteran defenceman signed a US$5-million, one-year contract with the Sharks on Thursday, leaving Pacific Division rival Los Angeles for a more [...]

Casey Printers and Jesse Lumsden ran for two TDs each as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats spoiled the Toronto Argonauts home-opener with a 32-13 win Thursday night Hamilton (1-1) earned just its second win in 19 regular-season meetings with Toronto (1-1) and halted a nine-game losing streak against its arch [...]

Patrick Luciani couldn't stop smiling as he watched a bevy of volunteers in white T-shirts getting ready for the opening of Village Italia on the second day of the International Villages Festival. "We're back after 18 years," Luciani said. Restarting the Italian village was his mother Carmela's [...]

Brant County should consider targeting existing built-up areas for development before expanding urban settlement boundaries within the municipality, a provincial official said Thursday. Bruce Krushelnicki, chief planning adviser with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, gave the advice during a presentation to county council about Ontario's Places to [...]

THE EXPOSITOR / Brian Thompson Young members of the Indo-Canadian Sports and Culture Club in Brantford perform a Bhangra, a traditional folk dance from the Punjab province of India, at the Asian Village on Wednesday night.

The Brantford Red Sox believe they are gaining the momentum they will need for the upcoming playoffs. The Barrie Baycats may tend to agree. The Red Sox pounded out 16 hits to earn a 9-6 victory over the Baycats in an Intercounty Baseball League played Wednesday night at [...]

Six Nations Radio Station CKRZ is pushing toward recovery after struggling to reduce a massive debt, says the chairman of the station's board of directors. "We pretty much cut everything across the board to do damage control, " Ward LaForme Jr. said Tuesday, summing up the drastic moves [...]

The construction of 116 townhouses along the banks of the Grand River in Paris is in doubt after a county council decision to refuse a builder more time to address environmental concerns with the property. Stirling Bridge Ltd. would like to build the homes on a 6.1-acre site [...]

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and the union representing 700 striking Brantford Casino workers are headed back to the bargaining table today. OLG and CAW are scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. today to resume negotiations after going almost one month without talks. Casino workers walked off [...]

The Brantford Red Sox celebrated Canada Day with some fireworks of their own Tuesday. The Sox exploded for six homers -- easily a season high in one game -- and bombed the Kitchener Panthers 16-2 on the road, to improve their Intercounty Baseball League record to [...]

A sigh of relief could be felt across Major League Baseball with word that Preston Gomez -- a former MLB player, coach and manager -- is recovering from severe head injuries suffered March 26 when he was stuck by a truck in Blythe, Calif. Gomez is a popular [...]

They wore small Canadian flag lapel pins -- and smiles that stayed with them the whole day. Prakash Madireddy and wife Pushpa were joined by seven-year-old daughter Adithi and more than 30 other new citizens being sworn in at a special citizenship court during the city's Canada Day [...]

A 44-year-old man who was reported missing last week has been found. Victor Vandall was found Friday after a citizen called police after seeing a man sitting in the Nith River. Brant OPP went to the scene and took Vandall to Brantford General Hospital for an assessment. He [...]

Camped out in his tent trailer, with mosquito netting, a bed, a stock of food and cool drinks, a laptop computer and a ham radio, Gordon Mitchell was more than ready to tackle the 24-hour North American amateur radio preparedness marathon on Saturday. "I've got the comforts of [...]

An all-female relay team of city firefighters battled the clock on Saturday as they hoisted, pounded, pulled and dragged their way to cheers at Saturday's Scott Firefit Championship, held on the grounds of the Brantford Tourism Centre. "I'm glad it's done," said a red-faced Alicia Betlejemski, of Paris, [...]