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CENTRE WELLINGTON – Developers and landowners lined up on Oct. 15 to tell council why the proposed expanded urban boundary for Fergus and Elora should expand a little further to include their properties too.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – After years of discussion and planning, council approved a subsidy plan for homeowners in the township with termites at its Oct. 15 meeting. And as soon as the township signs agreements with Orkin Canada Pest Control and Aetna Pest Control, residents can start applying.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – A Toronto man has been charged with fraud, theft, forgery and money laundering in connection with a scam earlier this year that cost a local business over $200,000.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – A maintenance project at the Shand Dam means Belwood Lake will be drawn down more quickly than usual and there will likely be no ice fishing there this winter.

ELORA – The future of the multi-use pad in Bissell Park now hinges on the township receiving a grant from the province's Community Sport and Recreation Infrastructure Fund (CSRIF).

Wellington County – The county's Green Legacy program, which has grown to be the largest municipal tree planting program in North America, hit 20 years old in 2024, and it’s still going strong.

GUELPH – The Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub that is expected to replace the city’s safe consumption site will not mean any new buildings to provide supportive housing, and it’s still unclear how many new supportive housing units might be eked out of existing housing stock.

ERIN – A young woman from Erin with Olympic aspirations has been recognized by the RBC Training Ground competition in the sport of rugby.

MAPLETON – An automated speed enforcement camera will be installed in front of Drayton Heights Public School early next year. 

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council is considering setting a default speed limit of 60km/h throughout the township after receiving a report from Paradigm Transportation Solutions at its Oct. 9 meeting.

BRUCEDALE – No one spoke out against allowing backyard chickens on rural residential lots in Guelph/Eramosa, but several people expressed concerns about infringement on their right to own chickens during a public meeting on a proposed zoning bylaw amendment to allow domestic poultry.

KENILWORTH – The county is renewing a years-old request to Wellington North Township to treat leachate from the Riverstown landfill at the Mount Forest wastewater treatment plant.

MAPLETON – Since the year she was born, Lauren Hennesy said she has never missed the Drayton Fall Fair.