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Thames Valley District School Board administrators are preparing to undertake a five-month study that could drastically change the landscape of public elementary schools in East Elgin and Central Elgin, including the potential closings of Springfield, South Dorchester and New Sarum, and the building of a large new elementary school in Belmont. In an interview Tuesday…

Malahide volunteer firefighters, Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police officers and Elgin-St. Thomas Emergency Medical Services paramedics responded to a two-vehicle crash west of Aylmer on Talbot Line (Highway 3) just east of Orwell on Saturday morning, Sept. 17. This photo was taken shortly after 10 a.m. Talbot Line was closed between the entrances of Temperance…

Students in East Elgin Secondary School’s Environmental Leadership Program paddled along the edge of a pond at Pleasant Valley Trout Farm southwest of Aylmer on Friday, Sept. 9. They were completing 20 hours of training required to get their basic canoeing certification before embarking Saturday, Sept. 12, for a five-day paddling, portaging and lake trout…

Keith Davis of RR 8 St. Thomas brought his 1949 Chevrolet Bickle Seagrave fire truck, formerly used by the Yarmouth Township (now Central Elgin) Fire Department, to a parade that opened the annual Labour Day weekend Fire Muster in St. Thomas, Saturday morning, Sept. 3. They were approaching Pinafore Park, the site for a series…

Amanda Goertzen, 8, only had to travel down the street from her home to enjoy the free swing midway ride at the 19th annual Straffordville Watermelon Fest on Saturday, Aug. 27. Attractions of the mostly free day-long event included fresh watermelon slices, cotton candy, the midway rides for children, a parade, live music, a classic…

The sixth annual 3 Port Tour Classic Century Ride reached its maximum of 500 riders this year, including this group from Waterloo on Nova Scotia Line approaching Port Bruce and their lunch, Saturday morning, August 20. Weather for the event was hot and extremely humid.

Drivers competed in the first heat of a “Figure 8” race at Aylmer Fair’s “Demo Day” Saturday afternoon, Aug. 13. A couple laps after they started, officials realized the racers were going around in an oval, and reminded them they had to wheel about in a Figure 8. Hilariously, some started going one way and some the…

Despite torrid weather the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 11, brave youngsters still came out for their first rides on the Aylmer Fair Midway. Admission Thursday is by donation, and the opening day will be topped off with fireworks at dusk.

The passenger of a pickup truck, Jerimiah Hakeem Krahn, 20, of Aylmer was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-vehicle crash that occurred on Highbury Avenue south of Ferguson Line northeast of St. Thomas in the late morning of Friday, Aug. 5. The driver of the silver Dodge pickup, David Guenther, 47, of Bayham,…

Magnus McClintock-Clutz, 8, showed off crimson hands after he and fellow participants in Springfield library’s weekly Summer Reading Club get-together tie-dyed white T-shirts, Thursday, June 28. The dyes weren’t harmful, but could stain hands if they got on skin, so the youngsters wore gloves. A few accidental exposures were quickly put right with soap and water,…