Robin George

BRUCEDALE –  Township council has received a severance application for a Guelph/Eramosa farm property. 

GUELPH – The Wellington Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) had its second meeting of the school year on Oct. 2.

GUELPH – Social determinants such as poverty, discrimination, and intergenerational trauma were the focus of the 24th annual Guelph mayor’s event for mental health, Connecting the Dots.

GUELPH/ERAMOSA – The cause of the fire on Oct. 9 – at a workshop on Highway 7 near Wellington Road 29 – is undetermined, but not considered suspicious.

GUELPH – The Wellington Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) had its second meeting of the school year on Oct. 2.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Little yellow flowers on tall cup plants buzz with bees, finches feast on seeds from purple asters, and monarch caterpillars chew milkweed leaves in naturalized gardens across the county.

FERGUS – Carter Hutchison recently received a $40,000 Schulich Builders Scholarship to study welding and fabrication at Conestoga College.

MOUNT FOREST – Inthusan Sivaguru from Mount Forest recently received a $40,000 Schulich Builders Scholarship to cover his tuition, tools, and living expenses while he studies electrical engineering at Sheridan College. 

GUELPH – The Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) is accepting applications for a new Orangeville trustee.  Kenn Manzerolle, the former Orangeville trustee, announced his resignation during the UGDSB on Sept. 12.

PUSLINCH – The township is moving forward with a plan to install a pathway, bench and small garden at the public right-of-way between Travelled Road and the lake. 

ELORA – Centre Wellington is prepared to pay Termite Research Services almost $1.4 million to provide termite management services until the end of 2028.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Fifty years ago, a six-year-old Secwepemc girl named Phyllis Webstad was excited to wear her bright and shiny orange shirt to school.