🚲️ Bike Fest @ Horseshoe Valley

Get ready to ride, race, and hang out at Horseshoe Valley Resort’s Bike Fest 2025! If you’re all about racing or just chilling for the good times, this is where you need to be. Add in great food, live music, and wild trail action all weekend—it’s shaping up to be an awesome time. Grab your crew, save the date, and come kick back. Spectating? Totally free!

📆 September 12th to 14th. See event schedule here.

📍 Horseshoe Valley Resort - 1101 Horseshoe Valley Rd. Barrie.

🛍️ The Mom Market @ Bradford Greenhouses Barrie

Join your fellow Moms at Bradford Greenhouses for The Mom Market Simcoe County — a curated vendor market filled with unique finds, handmade goods, and treats from local businesses. Bring your friends, explore incredible vendors, and take home something special.

📆 Saturday September 13th - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

📍 Bradford Greenhouses Barrie

📖 Comic Fest @ The Barrie Public Library

This annual, family-friendly event is packed full of free fun with local vendors, cosplayers, artists and more. Activities include big screen gaming, story time, character meet & greets, crafts, balloons, face painting, drawing, zombie attack and more!

📆 Saturday September 13th - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

📍 Barrie Public Library Downtown Branch - 60 Worsley Street. Barrie.

🥘 Recipe of the Week: Chili Mac

This chili mac changes things up a bit and makes this a heftier meal that's very shareable. This one-pot meal is a perfect way to warm up during the colder months, so go ahead and make it in the dead of winter to awaken your soul and grab a spoon to dig in! The best part? This hearty favourite is ready to enjoy in just 30 minutes, making it the perfect go-to weeknight dinner.

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🗞️ Local Good News Stories

🥲 ‘Brings a tear to my eye’: Terry Fox medical bracelet returned to family 45 years later. Read more.

📗 Iron Man to Mario: Pop culture fans gathering for Barrie Library’s Comic Fest. Read more.

💎 ‘Hidden gems’: Doors Open Simcoe County returns to celebrate local heritage. Read more.

👨‍🎨 Retro art, creative cosplay steal the show at Barrie ComiCon. Read more.

🚶 Annual walk raises over $25K for Kidney Foundation. Read more.

⛪️ Dutch roots, community spirit mark Barrie church’s 75th year. Read more.

🎸 Country star Brett Kissel rocks final Troubadour Festival show of the season. Read more.

🧒 Kids in new leadership program hope to ‘change the world in a good way’. Read more.

♻️ REMINDER: Starting this week, set out your new carts on your regular collection day. Read more.

👠 Red heels rule at fundraiser for Women & Children’s Shelter of Barrie. Read more.

🏡 Ontario fall gardens still have life in them - What you can plant now and how to protect against frost. Read more.

🏗️ What’s going on here? New apartment complex bringing more than 400 units to south Barrie. Read more.

🏊️ What’s going on here? Ontario government takes a plunge by contributing $166,000 to upgrade a popular Blue Mountain attraction. Read more.

 🌆 What’s Happenin’

Friday

👩‍🌾 Oro-Medonte Farmers Market @ Chappell Farms - 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Learn more.

🎬️ Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.

🎹 DJ & Live Music at CIBC Pier @ Friday Harbour - 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn more.

🎸 TWO (ft. Brian & Tara Byrne) Country Duo @ The Queens Hotel - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Learn more.

Saturday

👩‍🌾 Barrie Farmers’ Market @ City Hall - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn more.

📖 Comic Fest @ The Barrie Public Library Downtown - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.

👱‍♀️ The Mom Market @ Bradford Greenhouses Barrie - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.

🎹 DJ & Live Music at CIBC Pier @ Friday Harbour - 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn more.

Sunday 

🏃‍♂️ 45th Annual Terry Fox Fun @ Centennial Beach Barrie - 9 a.m. Learn more.

🏡 The Home Hustle Home Buyer Event @ Barrie & District Association of Realtors - 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free Event. Learn more. 

🪵 DIY Fall Everlasting Log Workshop @ Bradford Greenhouses Barrie - 11 a.m. Get Tickets.

👩‍🦱 Drag Brunch @ The Farmhouse Restaurant - 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Get Tickets.

🧒 Family Sundays @ The MacLaren Art Centre - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Learn more.

♟️ Checkmates @ Board Games @ The Barrie Library Downtown - 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

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