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Amy Armstrong of Sparta Church Museum and Cultural Centre holds one of more than 50 quilts ranging from the 1800s to modern times on display there. “A History of Quilting” is the museum’s showcase exhibit this summer. The museum is open Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Davenport Public School pupil Isabelle Row took a shot with Joseph Lasook looking on during the Hoops for Heart fundraising event at the school on Friday, May 30. Pupils could participate in a series of fun events involving basketball, skipping and other activities while raising funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

A 57-year-old Malahide man was airlifted to hospital after being run over by a farm packer being pulled by a tractor on Friday, May 30. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said the incident occurred at 11:43 a.m. on a “rural property” on Eden Line between Plank Road and Sandytown Rd. The victim…

Bryce Walcarius as Sebastien the Lobster, middle, and the Sea Chorus, from left, Hayley deBlieck, Emily Suffel, Abby De Coutere, Casey Breedon and Jenna Sleegers wrapped up their number, “Beluga Sevruga,” at the end of the first act of Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Assumption Catholic School in Aylmer, Wednesday night, May 28. A final…

Bayham announced Wednesday, May 28, that a state of emergency, declared because a former natural gas well northwest of Port Burwell was leaking potentially lethal hydrogen sulphide gas, had come to an end. A contractor had found the original well bore and stopped the flow of sulphur water which, on contact with the air, was…

A St. Thomas man, 39, received serious but non-life threatening injuries to his face after he fell at a business under construction off Elm Street in Aylmer on the morning of Tuesday, May 27. Aylmer Police Chief Andre Reymer said officers, Aylmer firefighters and paramedics were called to the work site at about 10:30 a.m.…

Early on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 27, Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police called off a search for a possible missing person  who was last seen by a witness disappearing off the pier in Port Stanley shortly after 6:20 p.m. the evening before. No new information had been provided after the Elgin OPP appealed to the public…

Thomas Southwick, the Ward 1 councillor of Bayham, has filed his nomination to run for deputy mayor in the Oct. 27 municipal election. A Clarke Road resident, Cr. Southwick said he wanted to continue the good work that Bayham has accomplished over the past four years since he was elected. No other nominations had been…

The “Colour Houses” welcomed area Grade 8 pupils to an orientation session at East Elgin Secondary School with a “flash mob” in the cafeteria, Friday, May 23, at lunch time. The visitors stayed around for a boys soccer playoff game.