News

MINTO – Organizers of a local event that brings hundreds together for fellowship and a Christmas Day meal are among the recipients of the first-ever Wishbone Awards. 

BRUCEDALE – Building permit fees in Guelph/Eramosa may be increasing by 15.6 per cent next year, and the public can provide feedback until Dec. 15.

GUELPH/ERAMOSA – Family, friends and the local farming community are mourning the loss of a young farmer in a tragic accident earlier this week.

PUSLINCH – Councillors here had a face-to-face conversation with OPP brass on Nov. 29, during which they hammered home concerns about speeding, speed limits, and the need for more traffic enforcement in the township.

GUELPH – Vaping is becoming a greater concern than smoking among youth for Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) officials.

ELORA – Taxpayers in Centre Wellington are facing a 7.38 per cent increase in the township portion of their property tax bill after council, as committee of the whole, spent two days whittling the budget down from the proposed 8.54% increase.

GUELPH – Wellington County council is prepared to provide financial support for physician recruitment efforts by the Guelph Wellington Ontario Health Team (GWOHT).

GUELPH – A jury has found Palmerston resident Michael Hurst guilty of sexually assaulting two more women in a trial that concluded on Dec. 7.

GUELPH – On the evening of Dec. 6, about 50 people gathered in Marianne’s Park in Guelph to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. It was a somber event to remember the 14 women who were killed in a mass shooting at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal 1989.

ERIN - A second iteration of Erin’s draft 2024 budget was presented to council during a special meeting held on Dec. 6. Council voted to use reserve dollars to reduce a proposed 5% tax increase.

GUELPH – Canada’s Food Price Report predicts food prices will increase by 2.5 to 4.5% in 2024. The average family of four can expect to spend $700 more on food next year.

MINTO –  Minto council will extend support to a company planning to redevelop an energy storage facility in the Harriston Industrial Park.

ELORA – All of Centre Wellington – downtowns, areas within the urban boundary, and rural areas – is now considered part of the township’s Community Improvement Plan (CIP) area and is therefore eligible for CIP grants. That was one of many updates to the CIP adopted by council on Nov. 27.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – R.J. Burnside has not completed its study of parking in downtown Elora and Fergus, but councillors are concerned a parking structure was not suggested in an interim report presented on Nov. 27.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Local health care providers are part of a group that has launched a new website to help residents "get the right care at the right time."