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A small transport truck slid off the road and rolled over onto its side west of New Sarum on Highway 3 (Talbot Line) on Wednesday, March 12. This photo was taken shortly after 2:30 p.m. that day. Snow had accumulated throughout the day and Highway 3 was snow covered in sections at the time of…

The annual migration of Tundra Swans that stop every late winter at the Aylmer Wildlife Management Area has been delayed due to the water being frozen over. Swans had been spotted near Rodney so it was anticipated they would arrive soon at the wildlife management area which is located just south of the Ontario Police…

Aylmer councillors took no action on a Malahide council request to find $60,000 in East Elgin Community Complex efficiencies for 2014. After some discussion at their March 10 meeting, councillors voted to receive and file the request. That means nothing further will be done with it. Two councillors, Pete Barbour and Arthur Oslach, supported finding…

St. Thomas Police have asked for the public’s assistance in identifying a man who allegedly tried to abduct two 8-year-old girls at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 8 on Owaissa Street. The girls were approached by a man in an older model, full-size red pick-up truck. The man asked the girls if they wanted…

East Elgin Secondary School co-operative education student Blayne Armstrong, left, explained how to tap a tree to Gabriel Caron and Baylee Mancuso, both of St. Thomas, at the Springwater Maple Syrup Festival on Saturday, March 8. Saturday marked the first day of the annual festival where visitors can find out how maple syrup was made…

Bayham residents continued to be warned to stay away from a natural gas well leak northwest of Port Burwell while a contractor continued to work at the site. The Bayham Municipal Control Group met with representatives of community agencies on Thursday, March 6 to review the gas leak issue. Ministry of Natural Resources officials confirmed…

Firefighters managed to contain a fire that started in the attic of a home in Straffordville on Tuesday, March 4. Bayham Fire Chief Randy White said more than a dozen firefighters from the Straffordville and Port Burwell stations with support from the Tillsonburg Fire Department were on scene on Sandytown Road just off of Plank Road…

A 7.39-percent levy increase for Aylmer in the draft 2014 budget was cut to 0.24 percent during a finance committee meeting held Monday, March 3. In all, $346,565 in cuts was approved, reducing the proposed levy from $5,318,642 to $4,972,077. The total levy in 2013 was $4,952,625.

An Aylmer man, 62, was charged with impaired driving after being arrested in the parking lot of a Liquor Control Board of Ontario store in St. Thomas Monday, March 3, at 9 p.m. The man failed a roadside sobriety test and was subsequently charged with having a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit for a…