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FERGUS – Police have charged an Innisfil woman with defrauding a Fergus resident of $150,000 through a "romance scam."

GUELPH – With summer just around the corner, the Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington has announced a new fundraising campaign aimed at providing hundreds of kids with the opportunity to attend summer camp.

KENILWORTH - VED Homes has reduced the number of townhouses for a proposed development in Arthur by a single unit.

ERIN – Resident and business owner Keith Barrick can see a little farther into the future after council voted to permanently allow Keith’s Trailer Sales to continue operating on agricultural land.

MOUNT FOREST – After 163 years in the Wellington North community, the Mount Forest Agricultural Society will cease to exist.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North council has begun discussing how the township’s electoral ward boundaries may need to change with the township’s growing population.

GUELPH – Expanding municipal boundaries within Wellington County wasn’t on the list of changes the county was proposing when it filed amendments to its official plan last fall.

FERGUS – Police have now charged a man with sexually assaulting two passengers while posing as a rideshare driver earlier this year. Wellington County OPP officials say the incident occurred on Jan. 29 at about 1:15am.

PALMERSTON – Work is underway for a full-scale homecoming party here in 2025.

FERGUS – If the displays that drew the biggest crowds at the township open house are any indication, Centre Wellington residents are most concerned about the Fergus South Secondary Plan and the population growth that will bring.

PALMERSTON – Officials with the Town of Minto and Kridak Developments gathered on May 16 for a groundbreaking ceremony for the "Palmerston Business Junction."

PUSLINCH – A section of Wellington Road 35 here has been closed due to failure of a section of the Paddock Bridge.

GUELPH – Athletes, teachers, supporters and volunteers filled the fields at St. James Catholic High School for the 19th Special Olympics Track and Field day.

KENILWORTH – Lavis Contracting Co. has been awarded an $853,379 (pre-tax) contract to reconstruct a 200-metre stretch of Cork Street in Mount Forest, between Waterloo and Princess streets.

ELORA – In its hunt for new water sources to serve a growing community, the Township of Centre Wellington is exploring four new potential well sites. At the May 15 council meeting, staff asked council to approve the purchase of four water monitoring systems at a cost of $113,000.