March 4, 2020 | The Oshawa Express

Part II: The second half-century of Durham Region’s psychiatric hospital

March 4, 2020

Opening in 1996, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences celebrated its 100th anniversary in October 2019. By Dave Flaherty/The Oshawa Express In the last edition of [...]

Durham residents encouraged to help increase forest cover

March 4, 2020

Durham landowners have the opportunity to help increase forest cover in the region in 2020. Since 2008, Forests Ontario’s 50 Million Tree Program (50 MTP) has led to the [...]

Don’t put recycling in plastic bags: Region

March 4, 2020

The Durham Region works department is launching a new outreach campaign to remind residents that recyclables in clear or blue plastic bags are not accepted in the municipal [...]

Cooking up a storm

March 4, 2020

Durham College recently hosted the 2020 Student Chef Challenge at its south Whitby campus. Culinary management students competed against five other teams from post-secondary [...]

Feedback sought on future parkette named after Oshawa psychologist

March 4, 2020

The City of Oshawa is looking for feedback from the community on the two proposed concepts for the Dr. Blake Parkette. The parkette will be located at the end of Royal [...]

The Bowie Lives hitting the stage at the Regent

March 4, 2020

By Chris Jones/The Oshawa Express While singer David Bowie died in January 2016, his spirit lives on in the form of The Bowie Lives tribute show and lead singer Michael Bell. [...]

Complaints against DRPS up slightly in 2019

March 4, 2020

By Chris Jones/The Oshawa Express The number of complaints against the Durham Region Police Service (DRPS) has increased over the last year. According to a report given to [...]