Posts by Rob Perry

Elgin St. Thomas Public Health officials worry that allowing the sale of locally-produced wines at farm markets could mean increased alcohol consumption. But health board members, particularly St. Thomas Alderman Mark Cosens, want to open up new markets to small wineries that have effectively been blocked out of Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores. He…

Malahide Councillor Mike Wolfe will run for deputy mayor in the October municipal election. He told the Express his primary focus was “keeping costs under control,” both at East Elgin Community Complex and throughout the township’s own departments. Incumbent Deputy Mayor Jim Jenkins has already filed his nomination papers, seeking re-election.

The Farm Edition of The Aylmer Express has won the best agricultural section award for newspapers under 10,000 circulation in the Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s Better Newspapers competition for 2013. In other awards, an Aug. 27 story by reporter Craig Bradford about how an essay contest to win a house in Malahide was falling short…

St. Thomas Police reported Tuesday, March 25, that sometime over the past week someone had been experimenting with Molotov cocktails behind the former St. Gabriel’s School on Parish St. Molotov Cocktails are bottles filled with a flammable substance with a soaked cloth or rag stuffed in the top. The rag is lit and the bottle…

An operational review of East Elgin Community Complex is finally in, and it recommends two major changes: eliminating summer ice; and leasing the Imperial Hall to a tenant such as a library or museum, rather than continuing to rent it out for special events like banquets and wedding receptions. Click here to download the full…

Malahide councillors, sitting as finance committee, on Friday, March 21, recommended that, as a council, they adopt a proposed $11.65-million 2014 budget that would increase the township’s property tax levy by five percent. The levy collected by the township would increase by $275,000, from $6.3-million last year to $6.6-million in 2014. Financial Services Director Suzanna…

Cadyn Hewbank, left, Jessica Wieler, Emma Nute, Fisher Ward and Ryder Stokley participated in a demonstration of magnetism led by Lee Winegardner of Mad Science at McGregor Public School in Aylmer last week. It was the start of a six-week afterschool program where pupils explore science for an hour each Wednesday.