Robert Uhrig News Today

Meaford council held its inaugural meeting yesterday following the recent municipal election. New mayor Ross K...

Meaford’s new mayor and council met officially for the first time Monday inside Meaford Hall to recite the declaration of office and share a few words of…

Meaford held its 14th annual Dragons event, offering over $15,000 to support local entrepreneurs. On Nov. 3, f...

Meaford mayor-elect Ross Kentner says he plans to make changes in the upcoming term of council. "Minor changes, but important changes, and all positiv...

Ross Kentner moved to Meaford in 1956. Now he’ll lead.

For Clarence “Bud” Anderson, Charles Yeager was a nearly lifelong best friend and colleague. The two men are storied names in Air Force and aviation history, sharing careers which extended from World War II, through test piloting, to the Vietnam War and beyond. Yeager, of course, was the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound, flying the rocket-powered Bell X-1 above what’s now Edwards Air Force Base. He went on to fly everything from a captured MiG fighter jet to ...

CASTILE — Chuck Yeager and Robert Uhrig knew they were in trouble. Yeager, of course, was a legend — a World War II fighter ace, military test pilot and the first person ever to exceed the speed of sound. Uhrig was an expert maintenance and engineering officer who served beside him at Edwards Air Force Base and beyond. They were supposed to pick up their families at the train station in what was then Frankfurt, West Germany, after the wives and children made an unpleasant voyage acros...