Aylmer Police Inspector Nick Novacich reported the following on Sunday, Dec. 27: Impaired driving Officers were on patrol on Friday, Dec. 25, at 1:30 a.m. when they saw a northbound vehicle on Elm Street heading into an industrial area. The vehicle was spinning its tires, doing “donuts” on the road and police pulled over the…
A Malahide man, 37, was charged with organizing an event that exceeded provincial pandemic restrictions banning more than 10 persons gathering outdoors, during a Sunday drive-in service at Aylmer Church of God on Sunday, Dec. 27. The man was not identified by name, but an Express photographer on site at the time saw Herbert Hildebrandt…
Southwestern Public Health reported 37 new cases of COVID-19 in its region covering Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Sunday, Dec. 27, down from 44 the previous day. However, the number of confirmed ongoing cases continued to rise, to 261 from 235. Aylmer and area remained steady at 54 cases, Bayham at 12 and West…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting Saturday, Dec., 26, that the number of ongoing confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area had jumped to 54 from 41 on Thursday. (Most COVID-19 information was not provided on Friday, Dec. 25.) Six new cases were confirmed across the Southwestern region on Christmas Day and 44 on Saturday,…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting a 12th death linked to COVID-19 on Thursday, Dec. 24, a St. Thomas woman in her 60s. A total of 37 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday, down from 47 the previous day. The current number of ongoing cases being tracked is 197, up from 182 the previous…
Thames Valley District School Board on Wednesday night, Dec. 23, announced one new confirmed case each of COVID-19 at East Elgin Secondary School and Davenport Public School in Aylmer, Eva Circe Cote French Immersion Public School in Sparta, Summers Corners Public School and Kettle Creek Public School in Port Stanley. Individual cases were also reported…
Elgin County announced on Wednesday night, Dec. 23, that a second resident of Elgin Manor long-term care home in Southwold has tested positive for COVID-19. Both residents are in isolation. Three staff members at Terrace Lodge long-term care home in Malahide have also tested positive for COVID-19. Warden Tom Marks, deputy mayor of Central Elgin,…
Southwestern Public Health was tracking 182 ongoing confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, Dec. 23, up from 160 the previous day. The health unit said the 47 new cases identified on Wednesday was the highest single one-day total since the pandemic began. Aylmer and area rose to 37 cases from 33, St. Thomas and area…
Dr. Joyce Lock, medical officer of health for Southwestern Public Health, advised local residents on Wednesday morning, Dec. 23, they should immediately take steps to protect themselves from the risk of catching COVID-19. The health unit announced that morning, before overall new case numbers were issued for the day, that the number of new cases…
Thames Valley District School Board on Tuesday night, Dec. 22, announced that two more confirmed COVID-19 cases had been identified among pupils and staff at Davenport Public School in Aylmer. That brings the total number of active cases there to four, the highest of any TVDSB public elementary school. The board noted that parents and…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 26 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Woodstock on Tuesday morning, Dec. 22. That brought the ongoing total number of cases to 160, up from 158 the previous day. Aylmer and area saw a considerable jump to 33 cases on Tuesday from 27 on Monday, and…
Elgin County announced late Monday afternoon, Dec. 21, its first case of a long-term care home resident testing positive for COVID-19, at Elgin Manor in Southwold. In addition, a third staff member at Terrace Lodge was also found to have the disease. That’s on top of two others who were diagnosed days earlier. In a…