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FERGUS – Police continue to investigate a bomb threat targeting Centre Wellington District High School that turned out to be a hoax.

PUSLINCH – Police are asking for the public's help with an investigation after finding a dead body here on Friday. In a Sept. 10 press release Wellington County OPP officials stated "a deceased individual was located in a blue sedan along Wellington Road 34" on Sept. 8.

WELLINGTON COUNTY — World Suicide Prevention Day is Sept. 10, which also marks the beginning of Suicide Prevention Week.

BELWOOD – The Belwood Lake Car Club is hosting its 11th annual Car Show here on Sept. 10 from noon to 4pm.

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PUSLINCH – In passing a Road Management Plan, council has given staff a road map on how to prioritize maintenance and repairs of township roads, how to include road work in annual budgets, and how to respond to concerns or requests from the public on the township’s road network.

HARRISTON – A local driver has been charged after a commercial truck caused extensive damage on a private property here, narrowly missing a house.

GUELPH – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, along with other community partners, has taken a deep dive into the data to see the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on children and youth – and it doesn't look good.

PALMERSTON – A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Palmerston and District Hospital. Officials say two inpatients and five staff at the hospital have tested positive for the virus.

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 – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) will soon begin its fall "FluVID" campaign, offering residents the opportunity to get both a flu shot and a COVID-19 shot at the same time.

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.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Water Cycles Expeditions is throwing a Water Cycles Bikes and Blues Festival on Sept. 9 in Belwood.

MINTO - Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a serious collision involving a single motor vehicle on Wellington Road 123, near Palmerston on Sept. 7, at approximately 6:15am.