MINTO – Unemployment rates are on the rise across the region.
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Be kind to Mother Earth on Earth Day – and every day
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Another Earth Day, another lockdown. What’s a person to do?
Snobelen Farms celebrates 50 years
PALMERSTON - Throughout 2021, Snobelen Farms is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
4-H paint club meets
WELLINGTON COUNTY - The 4-H Acrylic Painting Club held their fifth meeting on April 15.
OFA Viewpoint: MZOs jeopardize productivity and sustainability of Ontario farmland
Do you know where your food comes from? It’s a simple question with a surprisingly complex answer. Our food security and the economies that rely on it are dependent on a complicated agricultural supply chain – one that starts on the farm and ends at the dinner table.
Bereaved Families of Ontario in urgent need of peer support facilitators
KITCHENER - One of Bereaved Families of Ontario – Midwestern Region’s (BFO-MR) core programs is in a precarious position as the grief support organization is experiencing an urgent need for peer volunteer facilitators.
Messages of hope in Alma
Messages of hope – A home on the 20th Side Road in Alma has a message of hope for passersby.…
GYMC reaches matching challenge goal
GUELPH – Due to the overwhelming generosity of donors near and far, the Guelph Youth Music Centre’s (GYMC) matching challenge has reached its $50,000 goal.
Harriston residents request new pedestrian crossings
MINTO – A group of Harriston residents is asking for two new pedestrian crossings to be installed in the community.
Debt levels in federal budget concern Chong, Linton
WELLINGTON COUNTY – The first full-scale federal budget since March of 2019 projects a $155-billion deficit for 2021-22. This follows a 2020 deficit of $354.2 billion.
A fixture on Elora’s Mill Street East for 33 years, Yarnbird to close at end of May
ELORA – Yarnbird owner Marlene Pascoe has a passion for knitting but the store on Mill Street West in Elora is closing at the end of May.
GRCA parks opening early to ‘support mental health, well-being’ of residents
WELLINGTON COUNTY – This week the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) will open its parks early for limited day use. Effective April 23, all GRCA parks, with the exception of Elora Quarry, will open – about one week ahead of the previously-scheduled May 1 opening date.
Local hospitals to take patients from other hospitals as COVID-19 patients fill ICUs
WELLINGTON COUNTY - The three hospitals in Wellington County are bracing for the third wave of COVID-19 and, as of April 19, are taking patients from outside the region.
‘It’s an embarrassment’: with one councillor absent, CW council can’t even approve agenda
ELORA – Centre Wellington council had its shortest committee of the whole meeting by far on April 19. It didn’t even last 10 minutes – and nothing was accomplished.
Province backtracks on playground closures, random police stops
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Now that random stops are off the table, OPP officers will focus on businesses and restaurants, complaints from the public and unlawful public gatherings.