Jordan Snobelen

MOUNT FOREST – Residents don’t have to look far to see the Mount Forest Business Improvement Association’s (BIA) efforts to spruce up the downtown core.

GUELPH - Lengthy offload delays experienced at Guelph General Hospital (GGH) by Guelph-Wellington Paramedic Service (GWPS) crews declined in past months from last year’s strained highs.

GUELPH - David Halliburton was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, and Anastasia Halliburton was sentenced to six-months of house arrest on Sept. 26, in relation to the hit-and-run death of Lucas Shortreed almost 15 years ago.

WELLINGTON NORTH – A group of residents along Concession 4 North, which is part of a haulage route for three gravel pits, are fed up with the gravel road’s condition, and say it’s high time to have it paved.

GUELPH – Shortly after 7pm on Monday night at Guelph Superior Court, word arrived: the verdict was in.

GUELPH – A 12-member jury for the trial of Palmerston resident Michael Hurst, who is charged with five counts of sexual assault, began deliberating on Sept. 18. Last week, Hurst and two woman testified before the jury.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North Fire Service call volume is up 5% thus far this year, putting the township on track to surpass 2022 numbers, according to a recent report.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North staff are reallocating previously budgeted tax dollars and withdrawing from a township reserve to cover expected buget overruns.

GUELPH – A journalist struck by a car at the intersection of Brock Road North (Wellington Road 46) and Maltby Road on March 1 has filed a civil suit alleging negligence against five defendants.

GUELPH – A judge will deliver his sentence later this month for a man labelled by the feds as the “operating mind” behind a “sophisticated” Fergus marijuana growing operation busted more than two years ago.

GUELPH - The trial of Michael Hurst, a 45-year-old Palmerston man charged with five counts of sexual assault, begins next week.

GUELPH – Charges against a Wellington OPP officer have been withdrawn more than three years after they were first laid. Sukhvinder Singh Toor was charged in connection with secretly recorded conversations at the Rockwood OPP station. 

KENILWORTH – The chair of the Mount Forest Business Improvement Association (BIA) has taken the association’s grievances about the old tea room building, at 178 Main Street, to the township.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North hopes to dip into a $4-billion federal Housing Accelerator Fund as the municipality considers how it will pay for growth.