MAPLETON – Township officials are inviting local residents to join a campaign to press the province on local options for licensed child care.
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County to ease COVID-19 health and safety restrictions March 1
WELLINGTON COUNTY – All county buildings will reopen to the public without proof-of-vaccination requirements and curbside pickup at library branches will be discontinued.
Township to begin enforcing requirement for food truck vendors to be licensed
WELLINGTON NORTH – Food truck vendors need to be licensed through the township and staff will be reminding local chambers of commerce and the Mount Forest fireworks festival to ensure participating vendors are in compliance with the requirement.
Township pressing ahead with search for new Arthur drinking water source
WELLINGTON NORTH - Preliminary testing of a potential new municipal well in Arthur has shown positive results and now the township wants to press ahead, but at greater financial cost.
Council awards contract to Dominion Voting Systems
WELLINGTON NORTH – Dominion Voting Systems, with headquarters in Canada and the United States, will provide two optical scanning tabulators to the township for municipal elections slated to take place on Oct. 24 across the province.
First Elora ice rink constructed in 1879
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Planning staff seek pause on severance for Mount Forest apartment building
WELLINGTON NORTH – A request to defer a land severance will go to the county’s land division committee following a Feb. 7 decision by Wellington North council to support a deferral.
Over 170 surgery patients on wait list in Wellington County
WELLINGTON COUNTY - There are more than 15,000 patients in Waterloo Region, Guelph and Wellington County waiting on surgeries or procedures that have been postponed due to the pandemic.
Wellington North joins municipalities calling for insurance reform
WELLINGTON NORTH – Council here recently backed an Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) paper addressed to Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey in 2019, taking issue with how municipalities are tapped for reward payments in lawsuits involving liability.
Long-term care homes to receive additional staffing from pool of internationally educated nurses
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Long-term care homes in the county experiencing staffing shortages are expected to receive additional staffing support from the province.