Joanne Shuttleworth

ELORA – Council is deciding whether to scrap its monthly committee of the whole meetings and have two council meetings a month instead.  But it did agree to a policy on hybrid meetings.

PUSLINCH – The Township of Puslinch is rehabilitating part of Leslie Road West with support from the Canada Community-Building Fund. 

PUSLINCH – The condomimium corporation that operates Mini Lakes in Puslinch, now the Wellington Common Elements Condominium Corporation #214, has promised the township it is working towards getting its wastewater treatment plant into compliance.

PUSLINCH – Presented with a preliminary tax-supported capital budget of $1.5 million in 2024, representing a 3.78 increase to the tax levy, Puslinch council tried to pay for projects from different funds and postpone some projects to keep tax increases down. 

ELORA – Cachet Developments wants to build a 286-unit residential housing development at the corner of Irvine and Woolwich streets in Salem on what may be the last developable land in Salem/Elora.

ELORA – Local initiatives to save and protect drinking water in Centre Wellington and the City of Guelph are outlined in a new book by an American professor.

FERGUS – It came as an out-of-the-blue request when Zander Renouf told his parents he wanted to collect pop can tabs to help someone get a wheelchair. But when your child wants to do a good deed, you want to comply, said his father Steve Renouf.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – There are plenty of capital projects needed in the township and staff sought direction from council at its committee of the whole meeting on Oct. 16 to include them, or not, as they work on the 2024 draft capital budget.

PUSLINCH – Council here has approved a request by Dufferin Aggregates to extend its hours and months of operation – but with some conditions.

FERGUS – Centre Wellington council sent an application for a five-storey mixed use building on St. David Street North back to the drawing board at its Oct. 16 committee of the whole meeting.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – With speeding being a common complaint throughout Centre Wellington, township staff are proposing to run a pilot program next year, setting a 40 km/hr speed limit in an urban neighbourhood in the township.

GUELPH – They can’t solve all the world’s problems, but through a new partnership, Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington and the Rotary Club of Guelph are taking on affordable housing and climate change.

GUELPH – They can’t solve all the world’s problems, but through a new partnership, Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington and the Rotary Club of Guelph are taking on affordable housing and climate change.

FERGUS – St. David Street North in Fergus, which is also Highway 6, will see a controlled pedestrian crossing installed at St. George Street as part of the street reconstruction that begins next spring.

ELORA – Elora and Fergus firefighters responded to a fire call at the Jefferson Elora plant on Oct. 2 to find lots of smoke but no fire inside the building. However, there had been a fire in the mechanical room and all employees were safely evacuated for a few hours.