As of Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 12:15 a.m., The Municipality of Bayham had posted the following unofficial municipal election results (with 11/12 polls reporting): MAYOR Ketchabaw, Ed – 810 Culford, Jon – 501 WARD 1 COUNCILLOR Emerson, Tim – 286 Wade, Barry – 104 Donnell, Valerie – 84 WARD 2 COUNCILLOR Froese, Dan – 313…
Monday night, Oct. 24, The Town of Aylmer posted the following municipal election results to their website: MAYOR Jack Couckuyt (712 votes) (ELECTED) Ted McDonald (539 votes) Tom Charlton (450 votes) DEPUTY MAYOR Pete Barbour (1181 votes) (ELECTED) Fred Buro (301 votes) Isaac Neufeld (177 votes) Five councillors were acclaimed: Jamie Chapman, Kathryn Desrosiers, Arthur…
Monday night, Oct. 24, The Municipality of Central Elgin posted the following unofficial municipal election results (with 12/12 tabulators reporting): MAYOR Sloan, Andrew – 1807 (ELECTED) Crevits, Dennis – 1192 Marks, Tom – 845 Siebenmorgen, Casey – 328 DEPUTY MAYOR Noble, Todd – 1740 (ELECTED) Row, Colleen – 1665 Harrington, William (Bill) – 586 WARD…
Monday night, Oct. 24, The Township of Malahide posted the following municipal election results: WARD 1 COUNCILLOR Sarah Leitch – 331 (ELECTED) David Rempel – 56 Garett Ashton – 15 WARD 3 COUNCILLOR Rick Cerna – 153 (ELECTED) Chris Sickini – 73 WARD 4 COUNCILLOR Scott Lewis – 338 (ELECTED) Rita Mcphail – 48 Davy…
Library assistant Mary Hamm kicked up her heel as she modeled in a fashion show held at Aylmer Old Town Hall library on Thursday night, Oct. 6. Clothes from Durkees were featured. Look for more pictures of the fashion show in the print edition of The Aylmer Express. (AE/Rob Perry)
Aylmer Police reported Thursday afternoon, Oct. 6, that a missing 17-year-old girl from Aylmer who they had been looking for had been found safe.
Elgin Ontario Provincial Police announced late Monday afternoon, Oct. 3, that a woman, 27, and her newborn child had been found safe in London. Police issued an alert asking for public assistance finding the woman and baby after a caller requested they check on her well-being. She and the baby had last been seen in…
Southwestern Public Health announced its first positive case of monkeypox in its region, in an adult male, on Thursday, Sept. 15, but for now isn’t saying where, citing “an active investigation.” In a statement, the health unit said the virus was transmissible through direct contact with lesions, respiratory secretions, or materials contaminated by the virus,…
St. Thomas Mayor Joe Preston, coached by Steve Speller, an International Plowing Match champion, produced straight furrows as he participated in a special competition for local elected officials at the Elgin County Plowing Match in Malahide in Saturday, Sept. 10. This year’s match was hosted by Ian and Connie Foster. More pictures in the Sept.…
Thames Valley District School Board trustees on Tuesday, Aug. 30, ordered the start of legal proceedings to expropriate land for a new elementary school in Belmont from Craigholme Estates, a developer in that village. Facility Services and Capital Planning Superintendent Geoff Vogt said that the board had taken all the steps it could to try…
Herbert Hildebrandt was convicted of assaulting Jack Dykxhoorn in St. Thomas Ontario Court of Justice on Monday, August 22. Mr. Dykxhoorn, 84 at the time of the assault, Dec. 10, 2020, was pushed to the ground by Mr. Hildebrandt, approximately half the age and twice the size of Mr. Dykxhoorn. Both men live in Malahide.…
The rider of an electric bicycle was left with serious, life-threatening injuries after a collision with a pickup truck towing a trailer with a horse inside at the intersection of Lyons Line and Whittaker Road in Malahide on Thursday, Aug. 18, at 7:01 a.m. Constable Ed Sanchuk on behalf of Elgin Ontario Provincial Police said…