Business

WELLINGTON COUNTY - Workers are permitted to return to in-person work settings on Jan. 31 as WDGPH Medical Officer of Health Dr. Nicola Mercer rescinds remote work instructions issued on Dec. 16 to employers.

WELLINGTON NORTH - Council here received, on Jan. 24, a signed site plan agreement between the township and Sobeys Developments Limited, which owns Foodland and Sobeys grocery retail stores, for the development of a new Foodland grocery store in Mount Forest.

GUELPH – Diversion of construction and demolition materials from landfill sites will be the first project tackled by a new Zero Waste Economic Transformation Lab announced today by Guelph and Wellington County officials.

MINTO – An initiative to encourage and promote “acts of kindness” is among several new programs launched here to help local businesses most affected by pandemic restrictions.

MINTO – Town council has approved the sale of a Palmerston Industrial Park lot to a local business. On Jan. 18 council authorized an agreement to sell Multi Shelter Solutions the 1.7 acre property at 425 Minto Road for $102,000.

CENTRE WELLINGTON - Local restaurant owner-operators who opened their doors between 2019 and 2020 are struggling with the effects of pandemic restrictions and are trying to hold on for better days.

PUSLINCH – Ken Lillycrop is encouraging businesses that are able, to donate to local charities.

ELORA – It looks like the Gorge Cinema has been saved. And so has the building that houses it. The new owner says it’s her intention to restore the exterior to its original state and have a small boutique hotel and the Gorge Cinema inside.

MAPLETON - Amanda and Shane Stege are farmers of a different breed, raising North America’s largest land mammal on their Mapleton farm.

MAPLETON - For Erik Begg and his wife Nina, what began as a backyard hobby has now blossomed into an award-winning business.

GUELPH – Skyline Living and Skyline Group of Companies have earned two industry awards at the recent Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) Marketing, Achievement and Construction (MAC) Awards, celebrating the “best in the biz” in Ontario’s rental housing industry.

FERGUS – Police have charged a Milton man with sexual assault and sexual interference after a teenage girl was assaulted at work.

A&W donation – A&W in Fergus supported this year’s Remembrance Poppy Drive by donating…

ERIN – What started as a solution to help a family temporarily house visiting relatives has evolved into a full-fledged backyard bunkie business.