U-S corn, soybean and spring wheat planting are all running ahead of the five-year average.
Corn is 14 points ahead, soybeans 7 and spring wheat 26 points ahead of the average.
The USDA's latest Weekly Crop Progress Report has the winter wheat crop at 62 per cent good to excellent.
That's up one point from the week before and 18 points better than at this time last year.
In hopes of raising awareness of the help available to sexual violence survivors, a local crisis centre has handed out stickers to over 200 businesses.
Three people are facing charges after separate incidents took place over the long weekend.
Conor Allin is officially running again, this time in Ward 8, which covers people in the southern part of Chatham.
The Toronto Blue Jays snapped the Astros' six-game winning streak with a 3-1 win in Houston Monday night.
The Toronto Blue Jays lost 5-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals in MLB action on Sunday.
A multi-million dollar Chatham fraud trial begins this week.
