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A group of bicyclists crept up a steep slope on Pleasant Valley Line as they neared the end of a 160-kilometre route for the fifth annual 3 Port Classic Century Ride sponsored by The Aylmer Express on Saturday, Aug. 15. This year’s ride involved 450 bicyclists, the most ever.

Both Malahide and Bayham councils, in separate meetings, voted Thursday, Aug. 6, to welcome additional windmills to the Erie Shores Wind Farm. Capstone Power Development plans to add 20 to 30 new wind turbines to the existing 66 in the area. Malahide councillors ignored dire warnings from resident Hank Wortelboer and two anti-wind power activists…

Aylmer Fair has a new Junior Board of Directors (JBOD) that’s helping out this year, assisting with running the show, organizing impromptu concerts by local musicians throughout the fair and preparing their own car for Saturday’s demolition derby. They are, front, Jack Gaudette; back, from left: Jenna Gilbert, Joseph Gaudette, Monique Froese, Josh Gaudette and…

Swimming instructor Mark Cairns, left, kept a watchful eye on Jonathan Fehr, 9, as he made his way across the shallow end of the pool during the Learn to Swim day for children and youth of the Mennonite community held at the Ontario Police College northeast of Aylmer on Saturday afternoon, July 25. Elgin County…

This year’s Rotten Road Ride, the 10th annual organized by Dave Green Custom Cycle of Malahide, involved 380 motorcycles, up from 280 on a rainy day a year ago. Participants this year braved sweltering weather to ride to Aylmer, Langton, Port Rowan, Port Burwell and Port Bruce before returning to the College Line business for…

An estimated 2,200 participants on 1,500 motorcycles started the 25th annual Big Balls Dice Run from Springwater Conservation Area to Port Burwell and back, Saturday, July 4. This year’s event attracted a record number, which organizer Doug Lounsbury attributed to great weather and a great cause. In the last nine years, not including this one,…

A fire destroyed a home on Warren Street in Aylmer on the late morning of Friday, June 26. While no details were immediately available from the Aylmer Fire Department, Roy Robinson, a next door neighbour, said he was mowing his back yard at about 11 a.m. when he saw smoke come out of the back…

Bayham Deputy Mayor Tom Southwick, left, and Malahide Mayor David Mennill, right, used a cross-cut saw on a log during a competition at the annual Edison Fest in Vienna, Saturday, June 6. Several Elgin County councillors turned out to participate in a celebrity contest won by Bayham Councillor Wayne Casier and Southwold Mayor Grant Jones…

Aylmer councillors at their Monday, June 1 meeting sent the draft 2015 East Elgin Community Complex budget back to the facility’s Ad Hoc Committee to find a further $40,000 to $50,000 in savings. That was despite that committee, whose only voting members are the mayors of Aylmer and Malahide, just last week voting to send…