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Mudmen was the first musical group to appear on the new outdoor stage at Periscope Playhouse in Port  Burwell on Friday night, July 9. The event was sold out, with about 80 spectators attending. Full capacity could be as high as 120 but Karen Bechard, one of the organizers, said they wanted to err on…

The Klassen family, father Cornelius, mother Helena and their children still living at home, Jake, Felipe, Jose, Samuel and Priscilla, the youngest and just turning 16, lost everything they owned when their Malahide home was destroyed by fire on Monday, June 21. While insured against fire, the family is scattered among several homes of friends…

A fire destroyed a home at 57148 Jackson Line in Bayham on Tuesday night, June 15, at about 9:15 p.m. Both occupants got out safely. Bayham Fire Chief Harry Baranik said both fire stations in the municipality rushed to the scene, with 25 firefighters turning out. Malahide Fire Service sent a tanker truck and 10…

The Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds made two passes over St. Thomas on Tuesday morning, June 15, just before 11 a.m. Efforts had been made to involve them in an aerial salute to essential workers on Saturday, June 12, since they were performing in Windsor and Detroit at the time, but the timing couldn’t be…

Members of the Aylmer and District Horticultural Society held their annual plant sale at Palmer Park in Aylmer on Saturday morning, June 5. The event is the garden club’s major annual fundraiser. (AE/Rob Perry)

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday, June 2, that all elementary and secondary schools in Ontario would remain closed to in-person learning until September. He also encouraged all those schools to organize outdoor graduations for all of their students, not just those in Grades 8 and 12 as usual in the past, now that the…

Justice Bruce Thomas in St. Thomas Superior Court of Justice Monday morning, May 31, fined the Church of God (Restoration) Aylmer, Pastor Henry Hildebrandt, and Assistant Pastor Peter Wall a combined $66,000 for continued breach of a court order to follow gathering limits under the Reopening Ontario Act. The hearing was in response to the…

Premier Doug Ford announced Friday morning, May 28, that Ontarians would be able to get their second, booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine sooner than anticipated. Over 65 percent of the adult population of the province had already received their first dose of vaccine, a total of 8.5-million immunizations. Now that Ontario was getting consistent deliveries…

Southwestern Public Health on Tuesday morning, May 25, announced the death of an Oxford man in his 70s in a case connected to COVID-19. That brings the total number of deaths to date in the pandemic in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford to 80. Southwestern also reported 32 new cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed…

Malahide Firefighters were called to their second major fire in two years at a junk yard in Calton on Wednesday, May 19, at 9:55 p.m. The blaze was reclassified as a structural fire, and additional equipment and firefighters from Malahide’s fire stations were called in starting at 10 p.m. Fire Chief Brent Smith said the…