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Children bounced their way back and forth in an inflated amusement Saturday morning, June 4, at the annual Springfield Family Fun Day. Events continue through the day, including a watermelon eating contest at 2:30 p.m., a magic show by Steve Wilson at 3 p.m., a ham supper from 5 to 7 p.m. and square-dancing this…

About 50 Belmont and area Scotiabank customers, mainly older adults, made clear they were unhappy about the planned closing of their branch during a public meeting at Belmont Arena on Thursday night, June 2. Several said they were long-term bank customers, sometimes for generations in their family, and they didn’t want the branch to close.…

The Municipality of Bayham recently received a judgement against the Elgin Military Museum for $6-million relating to the default of bank loans the museum received to pay for the transport of the HMCS Ojibwa submarine from Halifax to Port Burwell. “A Writ of Seizure and Sale, against the Elgin Military Museum, has been registered in…

Robert “Bob” Bennett, right, the Bishop of Huron Diocese, greeted the congregation of Trinity Anglican Church in Port Burwell outside, at the end of the 180th anniversary service Sunday, May 22. Rt. Rev. Bennett spent his youth in Port Burwell, as he recalled while speaking to congregation members, especially those from Scouting groups. He dedicated…

Izabelle Zarb, left, Trudy Peters, Serena Braun, Kailah Blondeel and Hailey Peters showed off the shade of “rainbow slime” they made during the last “Girls Club” meeting of the season at Straffordville library on Tuesday, May 17. The program, for girls in Grades 4 through 6, runs monthly through the school year. The last session,…

War of 1812 re-enactors, in both Canadian and USA uniforms of the period, reversed their muskets for a moment of silence at Seminary Cemetery on the northwest corner of Sparta Line and Centennial Road in Central Elgin, Saturday afternoon, May 7. A new sign about the history of the cemetery was unveiled in an event…

Rex Martin, left, had a mask made of his face by fellow Straffordville Public School pupil Ethan Wall during an annual one-day “Arts Festival” on Tuesday, May 3. Pupils in grades 1 through 8 participated in up to six separate arts-related sessions throughout the day, including dance, photography, papier mache, finger painting, “junk sculpture” and…

Kaitlin Jarvi, left, as Sebastian tried to convince Emily Falk’s Ariel to stay “Under the Sea,” but she was distracted by the arrival of Kaylee Durdle as Flounder, during a rehearsal for Disney’s The Little Mermaid at East Elgin Secondary School. The musical, involving 40 students and 30 staff members, opens to the public Thursday…

Dozens of soldiers, reservists and army and air cadets along with a number of veterans participated in a parade in St. Thomas on Saturday, April 23 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 31 Combat Engineer Regiment (The Elgins). The parade started by the Jumbo the Elephant monument in west St. Thomas and proceeded south…

Front, from left, Springfield Public School pupils Tess McCallum, Kylie MacIntyre, Sophia Syrnyk, Amy Cox, Lily Giesbrecht, and back, Elle Yaw, Shelby Hamm, Chris Damen and Dakota Shoup were rock stars, and chewed gum, during a celebration day at Springfield Public School on Thursday, April 14. The school’s pupils were rewarded for having met their…