A St. Thomas motorcyclist, 59, sustained what Norfolk Ontario Provincial Police described as “life-altering injuries” in a collision with a pickup truck on Highway 3 at Courtland on Saturday, Nov. 6, at about 1:40 p.m. OPP Acting Sergeant Ed Sanchuk reported that the crash occurred at the intersection of Highway 3 and Rhineland Road. The…
Southwestern Public Health reported Monday, Nov. 8, that nine residents of the Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford region were hospitalized with COVID-19, four of them in intensive care units. That’s down from 13 hospitalizations last Friday, but the number in ICUs has increased by one. Southwestern announced Monday that 52 new cases of COVID-19 had…
Two motorists were injured, one critically, after a vehicle hit a tree on Imperial Road near Rush Creek Line in Malahide in the early-morning hours of Saturday, Nov. 6. Constable Norm Kelso of Elgin Ontario Provincial Police said OPP officers, Malahide firefighters and Elgin paramedics were called to the scene at about 1:10 a.m. The…
St. Thomas Elgin General hospital, in a statement posted Friday, Nov. 5, said it has admitted “a very high number” of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients in the last few weeks. As a result, despite Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s stand this week that the province won’t require hospital and other health care workers to have mandatory COVID-19…
Southwestern Public Health reported 32 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, Nov. 5, up from 21 on Thursday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit also rose, to 121 Friday from 95 Thursday. in addition, 13 Southwestern residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, four of…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 21 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Thursday, Nov. 4, up from 15 the previous day. The health unit is now tracking 95 cases, up from 85 Wednesday. Eleven residents of the region are hospitalized with COVID-19, two in intensive care units. Aylmer and…
Recent increases in the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford has led Southwestern Public Health Medical Officer of Health Dr. Joyce Lock to warn of the potential return of pandemic restrictions in the region. During a news briefing on Thursday, Nov. 4, she reported that 21 new confirmed…
The Ontario government on Wednesday, Nov. 3. announced increased eligibility for a third round of COVID-19 booster shots starting Saturday, Nov. 6. In a statement, the province said the third shot was to provide recipients with “an extra layer of protection against the Delta variant,” and that in coming months, they would be made available…
Southwestern Public Health announced on Wednesday, Nov. 3, that an Elgin woman in her 70s who was confirmed as having COVID-19 had died. That’s the third death in three days in Elgin. An Aylmer man, 85, died Monday and an Elgin woman in her 80s Tuesday. The death toll for Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford…
For the second day of a row, Southwestern Public Health on Tuesday, Nov. 2, announced that a local resident confirmed to have COVID-19 had died, an Elgin County woman in her 80s. The death of an Aylmer man, 85, with COVID-19 had been reported on Monday. Nine area residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday,…
Aylmer Police, in a statement Monday, Nov. 1, reported that on Monday, Oct. 25, at about 4:37 p.m., a black Chiappa revolver was reported stolen from the glovebox of an unlocked 2003 Volkswagen. The owner left the revolver in the glovebox, and an Aylmer man, 29, has been charged with careless storage of a firearm…
Elgin Ontario Provincial Police announced Sunday, Oct. 31, that bicyclist Michael Smith, 59, of London was killed in a collision with a stolen car on Wilson Line east of Belmont Road in Malahide on Saturday, Oct. 30, at about 4:50 p.m. He was pronounced dead on the scene following the arrival of OPP officers from…