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WELLINGTON NORTH – One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Highway 6, just south of Mount Forest, on Monday morning.

MINTO – NRStor Inc. is making plans to upgrade its groundbreaking energy storage facility in Harriston.

FERGUS – Among the first things to be planted in the spring at the new community garden at the Fergus sportsplex will be signs in each of the garden plots. And those signs were made by youth in the Sparrow program offered at the Elora Centre for the Arts.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Upper Grand and Wellington Catholic District School Board students will remain in classrooms this week following a tentative deal reached between the province and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

MINTO – A 12-year review of building activity in this municipality shows nearly $340 million worth of local construction since 2010.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Local pharmacists are getting creative to address a national supply shortage of child-dose painkillers and anti-inflammatory medication.

CAMBRIDGE – Drayton Entertainment has announced an ambitious 2023 season, featuring 16 productions across the local region. Mega-musicals, hysterical comedies and touching dramas will take centre stage from April 5 to Dec. 31 at the theatre organization’s four venues in Waterloo and Wellington.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North is taking another swing at the province’s Connecting Link funding, hoping the application is knocked out of the park.

FERGUS – About 40 people gathered outside Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott’s office on Nov. 16 to protest Bill 23, the proposed Building Homes Faster Act.

BELWOOD – Canada Post is looking for temporary solutions for Belwood residents who normally pick up their mail at the post office after a Nov. 15 fire ravaged the building.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – The first round of the county’s Experimental Acres pilot may have come to an end, but the experiments don’t stop here.

ELORA – Members of the community are invited to a workshop on Dec. 1 to receive an update on and participate in the Pierpoint Research Project. The workshop will be held Dec. 1 from 6 to 8pm at the Elora Community Centre. 

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Wellington County is working with Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors and Mainstreet Research to conduct online and phone surveys with local residents on retrofitting their homes for comfort, health and greenhouse gas emission reductions.

ABOYNE - On Nov. 17 Wellington OPP launched the Festive RIDE campaign to send a strong message to drivers: if you’ve had too much to drink or are impaired by drugs, get a cab, call a friend, head home on foot, or stay where you are. Don’t drink and drive.

WELLINGTON NORTH - The Township of Wellington North is extending an agreement with the City of Guelph to provide bylaw enforcement services for an additional six months beyond an initial one-year trial period.