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With only seven votes separating the winning candidate and the runner-up in the Oct. 27 Ward 1 councillor election in Bayham, there was conjecture within the municipality if someone might call for a recount. Port Burwell’s Randy Breyer was declared the official winner of the Ward 1 (Vienna and Port Burwell areas) with 164 votes…

All of the staff at Assumption Catholic Elementary School dressed in costumes for Halloween on Friday, Oct. 31. They also encouraged all of the pupils to come to school that day in costumes and a class by class parade was held during an assembly in the gym. The staff ended the assembly by posing together…

Darrell Buchner of 23 Marchant Street in Aylmer goes all out with the Halloween display at his property and this year decided to decorate his driveway, part of which seen here, and the inside of his garage. He usually decorates his backyard but with the weather forecast calling for some light rain and colder temperatures,…

Its official – the Aylmer Shoppers Drug Mart in Aylmer will change its banner to an IDA store in mid-November. The change of hands of the store was made official on Friday, Oct. 31 when the Competition Bureau, a federal government agency, announced via a media release that it had approved the sale of 10…

A fire at a home on Arthur Street in Straffordville on the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 31 killed a cat but the family dog managed to escape with the help of neighbours. Dorothy and Joe Neville weren’t at home when the fire started in their home and their next door neighbours, Bryan and Penny Bachmeier,…

Many Davenport Public School pupils (and staff members) in Aylmer dressed up in costumes on Halloween, Friday, Oct. 31. Some of the best costumes belonged to, from left, Rachel Shea, Josie Gee, Noah Sporbeck, Tao De Ryk, Ethan Mills-Baxter, Connor Dawson and Austin Irwin. A series of dances were held at the senior elementary school…

Kathryn Field, left, and her husband Nigel of Belmont accepted a $301.35 donation from Dad N Daughters Fish and Chips owner Rodger Greenlaw of Aylmer on Thursday night, Oct. 30. The money, collected by customer donations over the summer from the restaurant’s juice fountain, went towards the Josh Field Support Network. The couple established the…

Sparta Public School pupils pelted teachers with Silly String during an assembly on Thursday, Oct. 30. The teachers had volunteered to do so, as long as pupils met their goal of raising $1,500 for the annual Terry Fox Run, which they did.

Pupils from Springfield Public School (Grades 1-3) and London Byron Somerset Public School watched as a small pumpkin was shot from a large catapult at Clovermead Adventure Farm north of Aylmer on Wednesday morning, Oct. 29. The beekeeping farm hosted school field trips from across the region that week and taught pupils all about pumpkins…