Posts by Craig Bradford

Springfield’s Kellen De Vos along with some other volunteers have organized a new Halloween-themed event for the village called Screamfield. Staged along a trail outside Malahide Community Place that ends in the Springfield Library, the haunted event takes place from 7-10 p.m. on both Tuesday, Oct. 28 and Thursday, Oct. 30. Cost is “a toonie…

The St. Thomas constituency office of Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston closed by lunch on Wednesday, Oct. 22 after shootings in Ottawa that morning resulted in the death of a soldier and non-life threatening injuries to two other men. Shootings occurred at the National War Memorial, Parliament Hill and near the Rideau Centre, Ottawa police said.…

The Aylmer library will receive a $40,000 grant from the Dorothy Palmer Estate to help youth study current and emerging technologies. Aylmer Mayor Jack Couckuyt announced the grant during his mayor’s report near the end of the public portion of Monday night’s council meeting. The funding was to be received by the Elgin County Library and…

Four Harvard airplanes flew by Doug Newell’s property on Springfield Road south of Glencolin Line on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18. The multiple flybys were a tribute to Mr. Newell’s father Bob Newell who died peacefully of natural causes at age 91 at his Tillsonburg home on Oct. 10. His wife of 67 years, Dorothy, and…

Kade McLeod, left, was thrilled to meet Olaf, the snowman from the 2013 Disney animated movie Frozen, who paid a surprise visit to McGregor Public School in Aylmer on Friday, Oct. 17 for the latest Movie Night. After the young and the young at heart had a chance to meet Olaf, Frozen was shown in…

Former Aylmer resident and businessman Peter Banman says he offered to purchase the remaining almost 6,000 square feet of vacant ground floor commercial space at Aylmer Trillium Park condominiums for over $1-million and donate it to the Town of Aylmer as a gift in May before withdrawing the offer just over a week later. When…

A baby girl arrived sooner than expected and in an unlikely place on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 15. Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Laurie Houghton said at 7:47 a.m. officers responded to a report of a woman in labour and about to deliver her baby at the Highway 401 westbound on ramp from…

A head-on collision between a pickup truck and a tractor trailer had Highway 3 (Talbot Line) closed to traffic east of Aylmer between Heritage Road and Culloden Road for much of the day on Thursday, Oct. 16. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said the crash happened at about 6:35 a.m. just east of Springer…

Fifteen teachers and support staff at Springfield Public School, led by Principal Jennifer Burns, right, dressed up as chickens and danced to the Chicken Dance song during an assembly at the school on Friday, Oct. 10. The staff challenged the pupils to raise $500 or more for the Terry Fox Foundation and if they reached…