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A crash on Thursday, Sept. 9, at 2:51 p.m. involving a Central Elgin aerial fire truck and a car resulted in two persons being taken to hospital for treatment, one with serious injuries, Elgin Ontario Provincial Police report. The collision occurred at the intersection of Belmont Road and Ron McNeil Line, but the vehicles came…

Two drivers sustained seemingly minor injuries during a crash between a minivan and a transport truck loaded with steel coils on Highway 3 at Quaker Road on Thursday morning, Sept. 2. The crash occurred at 7:15 a.m. Both drivers were taken to St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital for treatment of their injuries. The highway has…

Southwestern Public Health reported Monday, Aug. 30, that Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford had as a whole reached the vaccination targets set by the Ontario government for moving beyond Step 3 of the province’s Roadmap to Reopen. The targets required at least 80 percent of a health unit region’s eligible population (12 and older) to…

St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital, in a statement issued Thursday, Aug. 26, announced that given the rising number of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization both locally and across Ontario, current staff and physicians must be fully vaccinated against the virus or submit to daily testing before each work shift. Any new staff, physicians or contractors hired…

Southwestern Ontario Public Health announced Friday, Aug. 20, that as of Friday, Sept. 10, its mass-vaccination clinic at Memorial Arena in St. Thomas will close its doors. COVID-19 vaccinations will move to the health unit’s St. Thomas headquarters at 1230 Talbot Street, at the eastern edge of the city, and continue on a scaled-down basis.…

by Rob Perry of The Aylmer Express A group of Vienna and area residents have banded together to fight the possible sale of the Vienna Community Centre, which Bayham has declared surplus to its needs but has also decided to make $70,000 in upgrades to the facility. That includes a recent decision by Bayham council…

Malahide Fire Service, Aylmer Fire Service, Elgin St. Thomas paramedics, an Ornge air ambulance and Ontario Provincial Police joined forces to rescue a Malahide farmer in his 60s who became trapped to his waist in a corn silo on College Line in Malahide on Saturday, July 31, at about 3 p.m. Ontario Provincial Police Constable…

Brandon Bastien, 10, of St. Thomas, left, and his grandfather Steve Posthumus of Aylmer, “magnet fishing” for ferrous metals in Catfish Creek at the Port Bruce pier, pulled this dummy mortar round out of the water on Sunday, July 25. While it doesn’t have an explosive warhead, it still had an undischarged rocket charge at…

Elgin Ontario Provincial Police reported a collision between two vehicles, one a motorcycle, at the intersection of Roberts Line and Quaker Road in Central Elgin has resulted in the motorcyclist being taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries on Thursday afternoon, July 22, at about 2 p.m. The other vehicle was a minivan. The occupants of…

Nine all-terrain vehicles, three snowmobiles, a 1970s Harley Davidson motorcycle, a shed and a lean-to were all destroyed by a fire at 11262 Plank Road in Eden on Tuesday, July 20. Bayham Fire and Emergency Services Chief Harry Baranik reported that firefighters were called out at about 1:40 p.m. after a passer-by reported the blaze…