Thrifty Thursdays   
Posted 41 minutes ago
Awesome Autumn Thrifty Thursdays is now live. Visit http://thriftythursdays.thebarrieexaminer.com for information. Each Thursday, until Oct. 21, you can purchase Barrie's Best Businesses at HALF THE PRICE from 8 a.m. [more]

Mailing opinions differ -- sort of   
Posted 9 hours ago
Canada Post is now sorting its Barrie mail in Toronto, instead of here. But a post office official says this will not affect the two-day standard for city mail delivery. [more]

Troublesome eighth buries Jays   
Posted 9 hours ago
Check please. The Blue Jays wound up one with one successful appeal on a checked swing. Not so good on the other. Reliever Shawn Camp struck out B.J. Upton for the first out of the eighth when third base ump Jeff Nelson judged Upton had swung. [more]

Tennis court cash has great returns    
Posted 9 hours ago
This isn't rocket science; $400,000 is $400,000. So the city and Barrie Community Tennis Club have put their differences aside to use this RinC (Recreation Infrastructure Canada) funding to reconstruct courts at Lampman Lane and Painswick parks. [more]

How dirty electricity affects your health    
Posted 9 hours ago
Are you feeling tired, suffer from sleepiness, depression, increased irritability, unexplained aches and pains, headaches, skin rashes, ringing in the ears, numbness, an irregular heart beat, increased blood pressure or a foggy brain? If so, you may be suffering from "electrosensitivity." Dr. [more]

Zeta-Jones furious cancer went undetected   
Posted 9 hours ago
Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones admits to having a hard time watching husband Michael Douglas battle throat cancer and has told People magazine she is furious with doctors for not detecting his disease sooner. [more]

Stick-up link probed   
Posted 9 hours ago
Police in Barrie and Innisfil are investigating possible links between three armed robberies that have happened since Sunday along Yonge Street. [more]

First-timers welcomed at secondary school    
Updated 3 hours ago
Lindsay Trottier's first day of high school will be a little scary. A new school, unfamiliar faces and starting into Grade 9 has the Barrie teen feeling anxious. "I'm actually scared," said Trottier, 14, sitting in a hallway at Barrie Central Collegiate. [more]