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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,…

Elgin St. Thomas Public Health is warning residents to stay away from bats after a rabid one was found in St. Thomas, a first for 2016. Rabies is spread through the saliva of infected animals from a bite, lick or scratch, causing inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Although human cases were rare in…

Smoke drifted upward from where a rider was doing a “burn-out” with his motorcycle at host DG Custom Cycle on College Line in Malahide on Saturday afternoon, July 16. A total of 375 riders had just completed the 11th annual “Rotten Ride” put on by the business with help from 50 volunteers and Aylmer Optimist…

Elgin-St. Thomas Emergency Medical Services paramedics and Jeff Vandewyngaerde, a passing Malahide volunteer firefighter, cared for an older man who fell off an adult three-wheeler after reportedly hitting a curb on the west side of John Street North, just after 4 p.m. on Monday, July 11. He appeared to have sustained an arm injury and…

Olivia Housego, 11, left, and sister Elizabeth, 9, bashed away at each during a jousting game that was part of Canada Day celebrations at East Elgin Community Complex Friday, July 1. The annual event is hosted by Aylmer and Malahide.

Former long-time Aylmer resident Jonathan Kuiper, known as “Yoani” by his family and friends, can’t return to the country he calls home after his application for Canadian citizenship was denied by an immigration judge and his permanent residency card expired. Born in the Netherlands and immigrating to Canada with his family when he was just…