Joanne Shuttleworth

FERGUS – The Upper Grand School Board (UGDSB) is making a second attempt at getting a new elementary school built in Fergus after being turned down by the Ministry of Education in 2019.

ELORA - Centre Wellington will offer internet and telephone voting in the 2022 municipal election. Council agreed at its meeting on April 26 to provide the option next year.

BELWOOD – Organizers hope they’ll be able to hold a special ceremony this year to mark the 75th anniversary of Belwood Lodge and Camp. But after a year of being shut down due to the pandemic, officials say just being able to welcome campers in person this summer will be celebration enough.

ELORA – Local water advocacy group Save Our Water talked about water on Earth Day through a public forum on Zoom to update the community on the end of the provincial moratorium on water taking permits and the sale of Nestlé Waters Canada – and what they mean to Centre Wellington’s water supply.

Playing in the park – Three-year-olds Finnley Bryant and Piper Kurtz chase each other around…

ELORA – Yarnbird owner Marlene Pascoe has a passion for knitting but the store on Mill Street West in Elora is closing at the end of May.

WELLINGTON COUNTY - The three hospitals in Wellington County are bracing for the third wave of COVID-19 and, as of April 19, are taking patients from outside the region. 

ELORA – Centre Wellington council had its shortest committee of the whole meeting by far on April 19. It didn’t even last 10 minutes – and nothing was accomplished.

ELORA – Centre Wellington's committee of adjustment has approved a minor variance application to allow street-level units of a proposed stacked townhouse building in Elora to be built as either commercial or residential units depending on market demands.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Volunteer week would normally be a big deal at Louise Marshall Hospital, where the 30 to 50 citizens who give hours of their time to the hospital and its patients, are properly celebrated and appreciated.

ERIN – The Town of Erin continues to push ahead with its plan to construct a wastewater treatment plant to service the villages of Erin and Hillsburgh.

ERIN – The development of Kensington Square – on the site of the former Erin Public School at 185 Main Street – will be built in one phase instead of two, as originally proposed.

GUELPH – A suspected COVID-19 outbreak at the Wellington Terrace in Aboyne is proof the vaccine offers protection against the B117 variant now spreading in the community and is the way out of the pandemic, says the local medical officer of health.

HILLSBURGH - The Hillsburgh Lions Free Library recently saw an expansion – and it didn’t cost taxpayers a dime.