KENILWORTH – Wellington North staff are reallocating previously budgeted tax dollars and withdrawing from a township reserve to cover expected buget overruns.
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Time keeps on ticking: Marden time capsule offers glimpse of 1997
MARDEN – Opening the time capsule outside the Marden library on the weekend invoked a little time travel itself.
Developer plans business condominium project in Palmerston
MINTO – Town council has approved an agreement to sell a 3.83-acre lot in the Palmerston Industrial Park to a local developer with plans to develop a business condominium complex.
Responsibility for wastewater treatment plant project changes hands at town
ERIN - Town infrastructure director Nick Colucci is on leave from his position and wastewater project manager Khalid Rahman has since taken over the director's responsibilities.
With climbing costs, new stairs to the gorge will have to wait
ELORA – Township staff will put on “pause” a plan to rebuild the stairs that lead from Victoria Park to the Elora Gorge in the hope a community partner will come forward or a grant can be obtained to help cover some of the cost overrun.
Terry Fox Runs take place across county on Sept. 17
WELLINGTON COUNTY – The annual Terry Fox Run will be taking place this week- end on Sept. 17 across several municipalities in Wellington County to help raise money for cancer research.
Parks Canada to install plaque honouring Richard Pierpoint
FERGUS – A plaque honouring Richard Pierpoint will be erected at the Pierpoint Fly Fishing Nature Reserve in early October. Pierpoint is recognized as the first Black settler in Centre Wellington.
‘Redline Revision’ would more than double density of proposed subdivision
MINTO – A plan to more than double the density of a proposed subdivision in Palmerston was presented at a public meeting here on Sept. 5.
Groves hospital welcomes Dr. Rafik Daihoum
CENTRE WELLINGTON – Obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) Dr. Rafik Daihoum has recently joined the Groves Memorial Community Hospital team and Riverside Medical Group.
Arts centre names Feist ‘Creative Roots Artist of the Year’
ELORA – Students at the Elora Centre for the Arts (ECFTA) got to meet a musical superstar last month – 11-time Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist Feist.
Enchanted Forest returns for second year
FERGUS — After a successful debut last fall, organizers of The Enchanted Forest of Fergus say they are excited to host the second annual event in the forest behind the Wellington County Community Sportsplex on Sept. 22 and 23.
Driver succumbs to injuries from Sept. 7 crash
MINTO – The driver of a vehicle involved in a serious single-vehicle crash here last week has died.
Local emergency room closing again this weekend
MOUNT FOREST – For the second time in as many weeks the emergency department at Louise Marshall Hospital here will be closed this weekend.
Bomb threat at Fergus high school a hoax: police
FERGUS – Police continue to investigate a bomb threat targeting Centre Wellington District High School that turned out to be a hoax.
Police investigating ‘sudden death’ in Puslinch
PUSLINCH – Police are asking for the public's help with an investigation after finding a dead body here on Friday. In a Sept. 10 press release Wellington County OPP officials stated "a deceased individual was located in a blue sedan along Wellington Road 34" on Sept. 8.