Joanne Shuttleworth

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Compass Community Services is ending its 2SLGBTQIA+ distress text line on Nov. 19 but the phone line remains open.

FERGUS – Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington broke ground on Garafraxa Village - a 32-unit townhouse development on Garafraxa Street in Fergus on Nov. 10.

ELORA – Tyler Smith has no memory of the worst day of his life. Yet on that day, April 6, 2018, everything changed for the former Humboldt Broncos player.

FERGUS – Tucked away in the north end of Fergus, now surrounded by big box stores and fast food restaurants, is a neighbourhood that’s unique to Centre Wellington but common across the country.

GUELPH – Inspired by a project at St. John Anglican Church in Elora, Riverside Residences in the Park in Guelph is adopting the knitted and crocheted poppy design to decorate the lobby of the building.

GUELPH – The board of health approved the 2024 budget for Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health at its Nov. 1 meeting.

ELORA – It will cost $2 million to replace the Middlebrook Bridge for pedestrian use and $600,000 to remove it. Council heard the updated figures at its Oct. 30 meeting.

ELORA – Centre Wellington councillors are thus far uneasy about agreeing to a resolution in support of Aypa Power’s bid to open a battery storage facility in the south end of Fergus.

FERGUS – The Fergus Tennis Club needs more space and wants to partner with Centre Wellington to create a five-court, domed facility at a new location.

ELORA – Council is deciding whether to scrap its monthly committee of the whole meetings and have two council meetings a month instead.  But it did agree to a policy on hybrid meetings.

PUSLINCH – The Township of Puslinch is rehabilitating part of Leslie Road West with support from the Canada Community-Building Fund. 

PUSLINCH – The condomimium corporation that operates Mini Lakes in Puslinch, now the Wellington Common Elements Condominium Corporation #214, has promised the township it is working towards getting its wastewater treatment plant into compliance.

PUSLINCH – Presented with a preliminary tax-supported capital budget of $1.5 million in 2024, representing a 3.78 increase to the tax levy, Puslinch council tried to pay for projects from different funds and postpone some projects to keep tax increases down. 

ELORA – Cachet Developments wants to build a 286-unit residential housing development at the corner of Irvine and Woolwich streets in Salem on what may be the last developable land in Salem/Elora.

ELORA – Local initiatives to save and protect drinking water in Centre Wellington and the City of Guelph are outlined in a new book by an American professor.