FERGUS – The Knights of Columbus is hosting its annual Pork Roast Dinner at St. Joseph Church…
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Fergus blood donation event is Oct. 22
FERGUS – A Canadian Blood Services donation event is coming to Fergus on Oct. 22. The Fergus…
Wastewater treatment plant in Fergus will get new roof after all
ELORA – At its Sept. 21 committee of the whole meeting, Centre Wellington council voted 5-2 to award the contract to Glover-Hill Inc. to build a stainless steel floating roof on the secondary digester at the Fergus plant.
CUPE, other union members continue protest against Reopening Ontario Act
FERGUS - Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and other labour unions held a protest on Sept. 17 outside the office of Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott.
Local hospitals allotted over $1 million from Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund
WELLINGTON COUNTY - The three hospitals in Wellington County will receive a combined $1 million in funding to address critical upgrades, repairs and maintenance.
Local Parkinson’s fundraiser walk raises $15,000
Walking for a cause – The Walk-It For Parkinson’s event this year was renamed Walk the…
Run/Walk for Haiti goes virtual Oct. 16 to 26
FERGUS - St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Fergus has modified its HEARTS (Haitians Educated And Ready To Serve) fundraiser to allow the 18th annual 5K event to be held as a virtually this year.
Three ice pads in Centre Wellington to open Oct. 5
CENTRE WELLINGTON – Both pads A and B at the CW Community Sportsplex, and at the Elora Community Centre will be ready for skaters, according to a township release.
COVID-19 assessment centre to move from Mount Forest to Fergus
FERGUS – On Aug. 31 the old Groves hospital in Fergus will become the new COVID-19 assessment centre in Wellington County and the centre in Mount Forest will close.
Firefighters’ toll booth fundraiser for muscular dystrophy can go ahead
FERGUS – The Fergus Firefighters Association will be holding a toll booth fundraiser in…
New Groves hospital move went smoothly, all services now operational
ABOYNE – On Aug. 9 at 6am the doors to the old Groves Memorial Community Hospital on Union Street in Fergus were closed and locked for the last time. Simultaneously the doors to the new Groves hospital on 131 Frederick Campbell St. in Aboyne opened to patients for the first time.
Mother and son create fundraiser for Centre Wellington Food Bank
Food bank fundraiser – Daniele McNamara, right back, and son Colby, right front, came up with…
Fergus doctors developed anemia cure in 1927
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Fergus woman charged in connection with multiple opioid overdoses
FERGUS - A Fergus woman has been charged in connection with an OPP investigation into multiple non-fatal opioid overdoses.
Three charged in Fergus drug bust
FERGUS – A Fergus woman is among three charged after a drug bust here on Wednesday. Wellington County OPP officers executed a search warrant at a Fergus home and seized "a quantity of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine."