Joanne Shuttleworth

ELORA – Centre Wellington’s mayor and councillors were paid a total $243,860 in 2024 for their honorariums and expenses.

ELORA – The fourth annual Waddies Classic is fast approaching and it will be bigger, better and have a larger purse for the winning teams.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – The on-again, off-again tariffs imposed on Canada by the United States have local manufacturers reeling as they try to digest the tariffs and figure out how to fortify against them.

FERGUS – With so many people unable to find affordable housing, Kathryn Stokes is a little puzzled as to why there isn’t more interest in purchasing one of the Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington homes under construction in Garafraxa Village in Fergus.

FERGUS – A Fergus real estate agent has been recognized for making the most donations to McMaster/Sick Kids hospitals in 2024 from among her Re/Max peers.

PUSLINCH – The University of Guelph is coming under fire in Puslinch for the way it has managed its Mill Creek aggregate pit it. Opponents say the university has stretched extraction of the pit to its limits and has disregarded promises made to the community. The university denies those claims.

GUELPH – Royal City Science has received a boost from Wellington County, as council agreed to pay $20,000 for organizers to conduct a feasibility study.

PUSLINCH – Council here approved Sunday gun hunting at its March 5 meeting, a move that came after local resident Robert Stark raised the matter at a council meeting in September.

FERGUS – Three of five 100-year-old silver maple trees got a temporary reprieve on March 10, but by the time neighbours saw what was going on and called the township, it was too late to save two others.

GUELPH – There’s new guidance about alcohol consumption and how it affects health – and a recent public health survey suggests many people aren’t aware of the risks. 

GUELPH – Measles has become rare in Ontario since a vaccine was developed in 1970 – until recently that is. Now there are cases in Ontario – one in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph – and that’s cause for concern, the region's medical officer of health told the board of health on March 5.

MORRISTON – Traffic was the main concern raised at a public meeting on March 5 about a residential development proposal in Morriston.

PUSLINCH – They call it Puslinch by Design – a Wellington County and Township of Puslinch initiative to determine where new industrial lands will be located in the township. The public was invited to a meeting at the PCC on Feb 26 to weigh in.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Centre Wellington is going to continue to test a plant-based product for road repair after promising results over the last two years.

PUSLINCH – The township would neither confirm nor deny that a senior firefighter was recently fired, causing several other firefighters to quit in solidarity.