Wellington County

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Upper Grand and Wellington Catholic District School Board students will remain in classrooms this week following a tentative deal reached between the province and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Local pharmacists are getting creative to address a national supply shortage of child-dose painkillers and anti-inflammatory medication.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – The first round of the county’s Experimental Acres pilot may have come to an end, but the experiments don’t stop here.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Wellington County is working with Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors and Mainstreet Research to conduct online and phone surveys with local residents on retrofitting their homes for comfort, health and greenhouse gas emission reductions.

ABOYNE - On Nov. 17 Wellington OPP launched the Festive RIDE campaign to send a strong message to drivers: if you’ve had too much to drink or are impaired by drugs, get a cab, call a friend, head home on foot, or stay where you are. Don’t drink and drive.

GUELPH – Newly-elected trustees with the Upper Grand District School Board elected Ralf Mesenbrink as board chair at their inaugural meeting on Nov 15.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – CUPE Local 256 education workers could be back on strike and off the job again on Nov. 21 if a deal isn’t reached between the union and province. The union issued a strike notice on Nov. 16.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) region are down significantly for the second week in a row, while the number of people hospitalized with COVID has dropped slightly.

OTTAWA – Bill S-227, known as the Food Day in Canada Act, passed its second reading in the House of Commons on Nov. 2, with parliamentarians unanimously voting to adopt the bill.