Community News

PALMERSTON – Renovations are complete and the finishing touches added with only four weeks remaining before the March 7 opening of the Building Bridges Adult Day Program, a new business providing services to adults with developmental delays.

MINTO - For the month of February Tannery Park in Harriston will be lit up in celebration with yellow, red and green, the colours of the African Nova Scotia flag.

WELLINGTON NORTH - Council approved a new bylaw on Jan. 24 requiring developers to hand over a portion of development lands to the township for parkland and recreation space or face a fee.

MINTO – A $3.67-million tender for the construction of a new secondary clarifier at the Palmerston Pollution Control Plan has been approved by town council.

WELLINGTON NORTH – The building department in Wellington North issued nearly one building permit per day last year, generating around $2 million in development charges and $619,157 in permit fees.

MINTO - Moorefield Excavating Ltd. has been awarded the contract for a $2.6-million reconstruction project on White’s Road (Wellington Road 5).

GUELPH – A remote learning option for elementary students could become the status quo in the Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB).

WELLINGTON COUNTY - Brown Insurance Brokers has been presented with the Crime Stoppers Guelph Wellington (CSGW) Cornerstone Award for 2021.

As the ironically named “Freedom Convoy” wound its way across the country to inflict a lockdown on the City of Ottawa it became, somewhere along the way, one of the most counter-intuitive efforts of its kind ever.

ARTHUR - The cats are in luck at Arthur Animal Rescue Cooperative after the community came together to honour the late actress Betty White.

MAPLETON – An agreement to allow the installation of a wireless communications tower at the Drayton firehall to improve cellular reception in the village’s downtown core is in the negotiation stage.

WELLINGTON NORTH – A long-planned Mount Forest subdivision is moving closer to becoming a reality following a public meeting last month about a zoning amendment application from Avila Investments Ltd., a Georgetown-based developer.

CLIFFORD - Minto Fire’s Clifford Station responded to report of a garage fire at a residence in Clifford around 9:30pm on Jan. 30. Firefighters found heavy smoke and flames coming out of the roof of the structure, but occupants were out of the building and no injuries reported.