Mount Forest

MOUNT FOREST - Residents in the Wellington North community of Mount Forest will have to observe water usage restrictions between May 17, when the community's water tower is drained, and when the tower is functional again in August.

ARTHUR - Bonny McDougall was awarded Wellington North's 2023 Senior of the Year before roughly 200 residents and volunteers at the Arthur and Area Community Centre on April 21.

GUELPH – County of Wellington officials are seeking funding to extend the local Integrated Mobile Police and Crisis Team (IMPACT).

KENILWORTH – Wellington North will not perform winter burials at the Mount Forest cemetery due to a lack of staffing and resources.

KENILWORTH – The projected cost of a new outdoor pool in Mount Forest is keeping at least two Wellington North councillors awake at night.

KENILWOTH - Wellington North council has awarded Hamilton-based Dayson Industrial Services with a $1.54 million contract (tax-in) for work on the Mount Forest water tower.

WELLINGTON NORTH – A Mount Forest dairy farm was convicted in a Guelph court earlier this year and ordered to pay $62,505 after liquid manure from the farm washed into a ditch, and eventually into Bethel Creek.

MOUNT FOREST - The Mount Forest Business Improvement Association wants crosswalk infrastructure installed at the Main Street South (Highway 6) and King Street East intersection in Mount Forest to make crossing the roadway safer for pedestrians.

MOUNT FOREST - Wellington North council has approved the first Community Improvement Program grant of the year with $1,300 go toward a new sign at the recently-opened Blonde Design Co., located at 121 Main Street North.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North council will consider declaring township-owned property along Highway 6 surplus and entering a purchase and sale agreement on Feb. 21. The land has recently been rezoned to permit commercial agricultural and rural industrial uses.

KENILWORTH – Following three delegations and much discussion, Wellington North council has approved the rezoning of land in Mount Forest, allowing a proposed 18-unit cluster townhouse project to proceed.

KENILWORTH– Wellington North council has given a partial nod to next steps in the design process for a proposed outdoor pool in Mount Forest that would replace the Lion Roy Grant pool.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – More county residents are accessing support from local food banks this season, with all locations across the county reporting increased demand. 

WELLINGTON NORTH – One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Highway 6, just south of Mount Forest, on Monday morning.

WELLINGTON NORTH – An application by St. John’s Evangelical-Lutheran Church to part ways with under an acre of their property reappeared before council here on Nov. 7.