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ELORA – Students from St. Mary Catholic School in Elora set off on their Terry Fox Run Sept. 27.

DRAYTON – Almost 150 years have passed since Drayton was incorporated as a village, and a committee of community members has some big plans underway to celebrate next year.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – The township will take a regulatory approach to short-term rentals as it tries to balance the need for short- term accommodation for tourists with complaints from residents that it’s “the wild west” in residential neighbourhoods because of the way some Airbnbs operate.

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council heard from plenty of delegations on Sept. 25 as it contemplates a bylaw to regulate noise at gun clubs in the township.  At the moment, the Sportsmens Club Galt, located on Gore Road, is the only gun club/shooting range in the township. 

GUELPH – Ten students from Puslinch, Guelph/Eramosa and Centre Wellington will receive $1,000 from the county to help with school expenses this year.

GUELPH – Starting in the new year, people disposing of trash at county waste facilities will have to pay a minimum fee of $10 – even if their trash is in yellow garbage bags they’ve already purchased.

LISTOWEL – Perth-Wellington MP John Nater presented King Charles III Coronation Medals to 20 residents from Perth County and northern Wellington County at the Listowel Legion on Sept. 29.

ERIN – Police and fires crews responded to the scene, on Brown Street in the Erin Glen development in northeast Erin, at about 12:54am on Sept. 27.

ERIN – Councillor John Brennan has called for the discontinuation of the new Town of Erin logo and the possible return to a variation of the previous shamrock logo.

GUELPH – It won’t be for several months, but the County of Wellington may be on its way to livestreaming its council and committee meetings.

MOUNT FOREST – Wellington North is surveying residents to find out how they want John Street to look before settling on a final design for reconstruction of the roadway.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – The Elora Rocks senior hockey team is back for another season playing in the Western Ontario Super Hockey League (WOSHL). 

MINTO – Council here has approved a $6,000 in-kind sponsorship of a youth curling tournament next spring.

ELORA – Road construction, Moloks and termites were the hot topics at Mayor Shawn Watters’ town hall meeting on Sept. 17.

FERGUS – Canada’s first sanctioned international all-round weightlifting competition took place in Fergus on Aug. 25 and saw 17 world records set by eight Canadian athletes.