Posts by Rob Perry
Playoff time for AMHA’s U11 White team
Jed Parry of Aylmer Minor Hockey’s Under 11 White team hustled the puck down the ice during a playoff game against Lambton Shores at East Elgin Community Complex on Sunday, March 22. Coach Abe Redecop said the best-of-three series has been a challenge for the Aylmer squad. “They have been a tough opponent for us.…
Read MoreElderly fraud victims tell their story
After losing about $85,000 to identity theft in 2025, pensioners Joe and Sadie Smith, of St. Thomas, are nearly broke and struggling to keep their home. “I am so embarrassed,” said Mr. Smith, his voice cracking with emotion as he described the dreadful experience at a fraud prevention session hosted by Elgin-St. Thomas-London South MP Andrew…
Read MoreRepair of railway bridge near completion
Post Stanley Terminal Rail hopes to be back in business in May. The popular tourist attraction cancelled all operations effective Dec. 12, 2025 after the discovery of “serious erosion” under the south abutment of the historic railway bridge across Kettle Creek in Port Stanley. With about 25,000 riders a year now, PSTR has operated as…
Read MoreCouckuyt blasts social media
Aylmer Mayor Jack Couckuyt lashed out this week at social media users who sparked what Aylmer Police Chief Kyle Johnstone calls a “wild fire” of frightening online innuendo about gun violence. The community leaders were referring to social media chatter about a fake threat of gun violence at East Elgin Secondary School on March 2.…
Read MoreNight Market at Summers Corners Public School
Grade 7 and 8 pupils at Summers Corners Public School, in an annual entrepreneurial showcase, started their own businesses, with products offered for sale to staff and fellow pupils during the day on Wednesday, March, 11, and, pictured here, at night for family members and the general public. The event recorded almost $14,000 in sales.…
Read MoreTaking a ride along the Tillsonburg to Port Burwell rail line
Local train enthusiast David Harding took a crowd at the Vienna, Edison and Area Museum along on a 1980 expedition he filmed travelling by pumper car on the former Tillsonburg to Port Burwell railway line, now torn up and a utility corridor, recently. He noted that he was a founding member of the Port Stanley…
Read MoreCentral Elgin calls for developers for former hospital lands
The second round of public engagement for plans to build over 3,500 homes for about 9,000 people on the former St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital lands concluded on March 2 as Central Elgin council issued a request for proposal (RFP) seeking private sector development partners. CE council is now expected to approve the hospital lands official…
Read MoreShooting threat at EESS a hoax
A claim that surfaced online at 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, March 1, about students supposedly planning to shoot up East Elgin Secondary School the next day was investigated by Aylmer Police and found to be nothing but a fake. Still, the usually crowded parking on streets around the school was much lighter through Monday,…
Read MoreJohn Hueston, partner purchase Eganville Leader
Aylmer Express owner John Hueston and his partner Ray Stanton, owner of London Publishing Corp. have purchased The Eganville Leader from Gerald Tracey, its owner/publisher. Mr. Hueston said The Leader is one of the best and most successful newspapers in the country. From a population of about 1,500, they sell 5,000 newspapers a week. Mr.…
Read MoreKinsmen donate $1,000 in food to Corner Cupboard
Aylmer Kinsmen Club members Joe Gaudette, left, Al Bradford, Robert Jans, Stacey Gaudette, Andy Beck, Perry Babb, Paul Bode, Doug Waite, Jack Gaudette and Harrison Bates wheeled four grocery cart loads of food purchased from Miller’s Independent grocery store in Aylmer to East Elgin Community Assistance Program’s Corner Cupboard food bank next door on Saturday…
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