Elgin Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a fatality that occurred on Wilson Line east of Belmont Road in Malahide Township on Saturday, Oct. 30, at about 4:50 p.m. Constable Norm Kelso said OPP officers from Elgin and Middlesex, Malahide and Central Elgin firefighters and Elgin paramedics were called to the scene, and the victim was…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting Friday, Oct. 29, that six residents of the Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford region were hospitalized with COVID-19, three of them in intensive care units. That’s up from three hospitalizations, with two in ICUs, from Thursday. Southwestern announced nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its area on Friday, down…
Elgin Ontario Provincial Police have identified the motorist killed in a head-on crash on Imperial Road just south of Lyons on Wednesday, Oct. 27, as Mya Klassen, 18, of Aylmer. She was pronounced dead at the scene after the motor vehicle she was driving was in collision with a transport truck, Const. Norm Kelso said…
Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek announced Thursday, Oct. 28, that St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital would finally be getting the provincial funding it needs to purchase, install and operate a magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) machine. STEGH in recent years has been designated as a “stroke centre,” able to deliver specialized services to patients that could greatly reduce…
Southwestern Public Health reported 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Thursday, Oct. 28, down from 12 the previous day. The health unit is tracking 88 ongoing cases across the region, down from 91 Wednesday. Aylmer and area at 19 has as many ongoing cases as the rest of…
Southwestern Public Health on Wednesday, Oct. 27, announced that an Oxford woman in her 70s had become the 91st death in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford attributed to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The health unit also reported 12 new cases of COVID-19 in its region Wednesday, down from 19 on Tuesday. SWPH was tracking…
One person has died following a head-on crash between a transport truck and a motor vehicle on Imperial Road just south of Lyons Line in Malahide Township on Wednesday, Oct. 27. Constable Norm Kelso of Elgin Ontario Provincial Police said the driver of the motor vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of…
Southwestern Public Health reported 19 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Oct. 26. By comparison, on Monday 35 cases, or an average of just under 12 daily, were recorded in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford from the weekend. The health unit is tracking 84 ongoing cases in its region, down from 87 on Monday.…
Southwestern Public Health on Monday, Oct. 25, was reporting 35 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford from the weekend, an average of just under 12 a day, compared to 19 on Friday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit stands at 87, up from 82 Friday.…
The assault trial for Herbert Hildebrandt, of Malahide, began Friday, Oct. 22, with only one prosecution witness testifying before day’s end. Mr. Hildebrandt was charged with assault after allegedly pushing to the ground Jack Dykxhoorn, 84, of Malahide at the former Thompson family farm, across from the Church of God, at the north end of…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 19 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, Oct. 22, up from 17 new cases on Thursday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit stood at 82 Friday, up from 79 Thursday, and two-thirds were in Oxford. Four Southwestern region…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 17 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Thursday, Oct. 21, up from 14 on Wednesday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit dropped slightly, to 79 from 80. On Thursday, 45.6 percent of all ongoing cases involved area residents 29…