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Aylmer Police announced early Tuesday, Dec. 29, that additional charges had been laid in connection with a drive-in service at the Church of God on John Street North on Sunday, Dec. 27, including obstructing a peace officer and intimidation of a justice participant, specifically a police officer. The charges were laid against a Malahide man,…

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 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,…

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…

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…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday, Dec. 21, announced that starting on Saturday, Dec. 26, most of the province would enter a 28-day “lockdown” period to try to curb the growing spread of COVID-19. Northern Ontario will do the same, but only for 14 days to start. He said the lockdown was necessary because of…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting 27 confirmed cases of COVID-19 being tracked in Aylmer and area, up from 22 the previous day, on Friday, Dec. 18. Bayham also increased to 16 cases from 15, while St. Thomas and area dropped to 27 from 32. Central Elgin rose to three cases from two, West Elgin dropped…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting the 11th death in its region linked to COVID-19 on Thursday, Dec. 17, as the number of new confirmed cases across Elgin, St. Thomas and Woodstock increased by 33. The health unit said the fatality involved an Elgin County man in his 70s. The health unit is tracking 149 ongoing…

On Tuesday, December 15, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital announced that it would move itself into the “Red-Control” colour code and was cancelling general visits to patients, given the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the community. Those considered “essential caregivers” would still be allowed into the hospital, STEGH noted.