The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area increased to 22 on Monday, Oct. 4, from 10 on Friday, Oct. 1. That’s the biggest increase of any municipality in the Southwestern Public Health region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford. The health unit on Monday was tracking 71 ongoing COVID-19 cases, up…
Middlesex Trustee Sean Hunt warned, “We must not make these mistakes again,” after Thames Valley District School Board on Tuesday, Sept. 28, approved sending some pupils from Westminster Central Public School, which will be closed as of September of 2022, to South Dorchester Public School. The original plan had been to close both Westminster Central…
Elgin Manor long-term care home, with the confirmation of two more cases of COVID-19, in addition to one discovered Friday, is now in a “confirmed outbreak,” Elgin County announced Sunday afternoon, Oct. 3. The first case on Friday involved a resident. The Sunday cases involve another resident and one staff member. All other residents and…
Elgin County announced on Friday afternoon, Oct. 1, that a single case of COVID-19 had been confirmed involving a resident at Elgin Manor long-term care home in Southwold that morning. The resident had been moved into isolation, and so far no other residents or staff had tested positive, the county continued. With one positive case,…
The number of ongoing confirmed COVID-19 cases in Aylmer and area increased to 10 Friday, Oct. 1, from six on Wednesday, Sept. 29, Southwestern Public Health reported on Friday, Oct. 1. (The health unit took Thursday off for National Truth and Reconciliation Day.) Across the Southwestern region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, 21 new…
The driver of a sports utility vehicle and an infant passenger were taken by ambulance to hospital to be treated for what Ontario Provincial Police described as serious, life-threatening injuries after a crash also involving a grain truck on Lyons Line between Imperial Road and Dorchester Road on Thursday, Sept. 30, at about 6:40 p.m.…
The number of ongoing COVID-19 cases being tracked by Southwestern Public Health in Aylmer and area rose to six Wednesday, Sept. 29, from two the previous day. Currently in the Southwestern region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, four residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, two of them in intensive care units. Residents age 20 through…
Spectators crowded the beach in Port Bruce to watch a fireworks display marking the end of summer on Saturday night, Sept. 25. The event was organized by Malahide volunteer firefighters. The display would have been put on earlier in the year, but COVID-19 restrictions prevented that until now. Hundreds attended. (AE/Rob Perry)
Southwestern Public Health on Thursday, Sept. 23, reported the death of an Elgin County man in his 70s, attributed to COVID-19. His was the 86th such death in Elgin, St. Thomas and Middlesex since the pandemic began. Two new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Thursday, down from three the day before. The number of…
One final poll has now been counted and, with 181 out of 181 polls reporting, Elections Canada announced the final counts for candidates in the Sept. 20 federal election in Elgin-Middlesex-London riding on Wednesday, Sept. 22. Incumbent Conservative Karen Vecchio received 31,372 votes or 49.8 percent of the total cast. Liberal Afeez Ajibowu was second…
At 12:30 a.m., with 163 of 181 polls or over 90 percent reporting, incumbent Conservative Karen Vecchio is enjoying as great a success as she had in the 2019 election, when she also won handily. Both times, she won about half of all the votes cast in Elgin-Middlesex-London riding. At 12:30 Tuesday morning, she has…
Just before midnight, with 140 of 181 polls reporting in Elgin-Middlesex-London riding, incumbent Conservative Karen Vecchio continues to dominate with 21,785 votes or 50 percent of those cast to this point. Liberal Afeez Ajibowu is in second with 8,206 or 18.8 percent and Katelyn Cody of the NDP follows 7,058 or 16.2 percent, Chelsea Hillier…