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Board cutting – Instead of a ribbon, Ace Hardware has a tradition of sawing through a board to officially open its newest store locations.

OTTAWA - Wellington-Halton Hills MP Michael Chong is calling on the federal government to expel a consular official from Canada following media reporting of the official's possible involvement in the alleged targeting of his family abroad.

FERGUS – A teacher at JD Hogarth Public School here is facing child pornography charges. Darwin Charles Harrison, 38, of Guelph, was arrested on April 6 and charged with possessing child pornography, making child pornography available and accessing child pornography.

ELORA – The Elora Farmers' Market will open for the season at Bissell Park on May 6. It will run every Saturday in the spring and summer, rain or shine, from 9am to 1pm.

WELLINGTON COUNTY - From the Red Chamber to Wellington County, Rob Black and two fellow senators, Alberta Senator Paula Simmons and Senator Pat Duncan of Yukon, toured across Wellington County and Guelph from April 24 to 26 to investigate what's happening on the ground in the name of healthy soils.

PUSLINCH – An elderly Guelph woman has been charged in the crash here two months ago that seriously injured a local journalist. CTV News Kitchener reporter Stephanie Villella was at the intersection of Brock Road North (Wellington Road 46) and Maltby Road when she was hit by a sedan on March 1.

ERIN - Erin is providing a letter of support for a new telecommunications tower along Fifth Line after a compromise was reached between Fontur International, representing Signum Wireless, and area residents concerned about the future tower's effects on health, aesthetics and property values.

ABOYNE - The Indigenous Gathering Circle located at the Wellington Place Campus in Aboyne was officially opened on April 26 with remarks from local politicians and Indigenous ceremony.

GUELPH – The County of Wellington is increasing its financial support for the Waterloo-Wellington Children’s Groundwater Festival, which is being held in the county for the first time in 2023.

FERGUS – The Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games has announced its "featured guest" for this summer's festival will be Richard Rankin. Fans of Outlander will recognize Rankin as the actor who plays Roger MacKenzie on the hit TV series.

GUELPH – Wellington County councillor Chris White has been elected chair of Conservation Ontario.

FERGUS – With little fanfare, Centre Wellington council approved a proposal by Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington to build a townhouse complex at 465 Garafraxa St. W. in Fergus.

ELORA – Work is expected to begin this fall on a multi-million dollar project to expand the track at the Grand River Raceway here. Officials announced on April 26 the raceway is moving ahead with longstanding plans to transform the current half-mile oval into a 5/8-mile track.

MINTO – Three local youths were recognized for sporting accomplishments at the national and provincial level at the April 25 town council meeting.

FERGUS – While the long-term fate of a historic farmhouse is not known, for the short term it will be used to house resident and locum doctors working at Groves Memorial Community Hospital.