Bridget Woolley of host East Elgin Secondary School’s Senior girls basketball team charged toward the Woodstock Huron Park hoop during a game on Thursday, Oct. 16. EESS dominated plan and came away with a 30-10 victory. (AE/Rob Perry)
Steve Peters resigned his seat as a member of St. Thomas council on Oct. 15, with hopes of creating more time for family, and his passion for local history, while also focusing on his year-old role as chair of the Leamington-based Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) board of directors. “I’m 62 years old, I was first elected when I was…
Ruth Ford, left, and John Hutton brought this 1951 MG TD sports car, in British Racing Green, to a Classic Car Show to benefit Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives at Saxonia Hall, just west of Aylmer, on Saturday, Oct. 4. Mr. Hutton said he’d always been interested in British sports cars and, earlier this year, bought his first one. They take…
East Elgin Community Complex board, at a meeting Wednesday, Oct. 8, voted 8-5 to get a detailed cost estimate, costing up to $10,000, on renovating Imperial Hall into a new space for the Aylmer library. Malahide Mayor Dominique Giguère, Deputy Mayor Mark Widner and councillors Sarah Leitch, Johnny Wilson, Rick Cerna, Scott Lewis joined town councillors Kathryn Desrosiers and Jason…
Aylmer council, meeting at Old Town Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 15, will discuss the cost of three options for potentially enlarging the downtown branch of the Elgin County library or building a new one, with costs ranging from $6.2-million to $8.9-million. The costliest option, according to JPM Architecture, would be $8.9-million to put an addition on and renovate Old Town…
Summers Corners Public School had 421 participants who raised almost $2,000 in total in a Terry Fox Run on Friday afternoon, Sept. 26, including Alex Fehr, Gr. 7, left, Joey Scott, Gr. 8, Caiden Werkema, Gr. 8, and Landon Connor, Gr. 8, who took part as a group. (AE/Rob Perry)
Nine new family doctors and two nurse practitioners were welcomed to the community on Oct. 2 as the St. Thomas-Elgin Health Recruitment Partnership, in conjunction with St. Thomas and District Chamber of Commerce and Doug Tarry Homes (DTH), hosted a “meet-and-greet” in Central Elgin. The health care workers were treated to soft drinks, finger foods and an opportunity to hob-nob…
Aylmer council’s finance committee members decided on Wednesday, Oct. 1, that they’d rather wait to see if the municipality received a provincial grant to help pay the estimated $805,000 in needed repairs to the town pool in 2026, even if that meant the facility might not open next summer. Doing so was proposed by Councillor Kathryn Desrosiers as the committee…
Cherry Street, a nonprofit group that provides affordable housing in Aylmer, is planning to demolish 50 Centre St., as well as 32 Centre St., to make room for a new development. At a town council meeting Wednesday, Oct. 1, two neighbours, Cynthia Grant and Stephen Blankenship (the latter’s father was a founding member of the Cherry Street board in the…
The pomp and glory expected on U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2 is lost on Elgin County businesses.Instead of the celebratory mood promoted by the White House, the proprietor at Phil Mauer and Associates, in Eden, for example, is “not thrilled” with the dreaded tariffs regime that President Trump is expected to unveil, and Mr. Mauer has…