Some public schools in the area will be closed today, Wednesday, Jan. 8, due to the continuing cold weather and snow-packed road conditions. While all Catholic schools were open, eight public schools in Elgin County were closed including New Sarum, Port Stanley, South Dorchester, Sparta and Summers Corners. Bus service to most schools was cancelled.…
Bayham volunteer firefighters from the Port Burwell station have moved to join Teamsters Local Union 879 after a recent vote. The Aylmer Express obtained a copy of the application for certification filed with the Ontario Labour Relations Board after Bayham firefighters from both the Port Burwell and Straffordville stations held a certification vote on Dec.…
The mayors of Aylmer and Malahide plan to run again in the Oct. 27, 2014 municipal election. Malahide Mayor David Mennill submitted his nomination form on the first day he could do so, Thursday, Jan. 2. Aylmer Mayor Jack Couckuyt filed his nomination with the Clerk’s office on Friday, Jan. 3. No other candidates had…
Pupils and students across the region had their Christmas holiday extended on Monday, Jan. 6 due to the winter storm overnight. Officials with both the Thames Valley District School Board and London District Catholic School Board cancelled all buses and closed all schools on the first day pupils and students were expected back in classes…
Elgin St. Thomas Public Health board members at their December meeting unanimously approved without discussion a budget calling for a three-percent increase for 2014. That brings total planned spending to $6.375-million, up by $185,726, with the province paying $4,781,667 of that cost. That leaves $940,395 to be covered by Elgin County and $653,494 by the…
Julie and Chad Underhill of Vienna welcomed their new son Camden Chad into the world at 6:55 a.m. on New Year’s Day at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital, the first baby to be born there in 2014. The couple, who have two other young children, were attending a wedding at a London hotel where Mr.…
A two vehicle crash that occurred at the intersection of Myrtle and Spruce streets in Aylmer at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31 injured a female driver of one of the cars. A black Ford Fusion crashed into the home on the northwest corner of the intersection. The roads were snow covered at the…
A vandal with an ideological bent might have started a graffiti campaign in Aylmer. Earlier in December, someone spray-painted a message, quoting a biblical verse, on the Masonic Hall on South Street West. And over Christmas, the target was the John Street North bridge, and the message was “Fluoride kills, stop it, Dr. Paul Connett.”…
Malahide, like Central Elgin, seems to be too wealthy these days to qualify for a provincial infrastructure grant. Malahide councillors, who had earlier learned informally the township had been turned down for grants to help preserve Dexter Line west of Port Bruce from Lake Erie erosion as well as an adjacent water supply pipeline, got…
In a meeting unprecedented in decades of Malahide council, neighbours turned out in droves to support, rather than oppose, a request for a car painting and body shop in mostly residential Kingsmill. Barry and Kristina Millard have a mobile car painting business, and want a permanent base for it. The only one out of a room…
Elgin County councillors want to ensure no more railway lines are ripped out of the ground here. They recently discussed that threat, given that Trillium Railway, a short line serving East Elgin as well as Tillsonburg and Delhi, went up for sale Dec. 20. If no buyer can be found, in six months the company’s…
Elgin County councillors on Dec. 12 approved a recommendation from Medavie, the new contractor for ambulance services here starting Dec. 29, to keep a “first-response vehicle” full-time in Bayham, even if it’s only used from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. That would save about an hour a day of travel from and to the…