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PALMERSTON – A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Palmerston and District Hospital. Officials say two inpatients and five staff at the hospital have tested positive for the virus.

GUELPH – A journalist struck by a car at the intersection of Brock Road North (Wellington Road 46) and Maltby Road on March 1 has filed a civil suit alleging negligence against five defendants.

GUELPH – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) will soon begin its fall "FluVID" campaign, offering residents the opportunity to get both a flu shot and a COVID-19 shot at the same time.

GUELPH – A judge will deliver his sentence later this month for a man labelled by the feds as the “operating mind” behind a “sophisticated” Fergus marijuana growing operation busted more than two years ago.

GUELPH - The trial of Michael Hurst, a 45-year-old Palmerston man charged with five counts of sexual assault, begins next week.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Water Cycles Expeditions is throwing a Water Cycles Bikes and Blues Festival on Sept. 9 in Belwood.

MINTO - Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a serious collision involving a single motor vehicle on Wellington Road 123, near Palmerston on Sept. 7, at approximately 6:15am.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – The new Ontario Swine Research Centre opened in Elora on Aug. 24. 

WELLINGTON COUNTY – With autumn approaching, the weather is cooling and flower and vegetable gardens are starting to wither and wilt. 

FERGUS – Hosted by the Fergus Agricultural Society, the Fergus Fall Fair will be returning for its 186th celebration.

LONDON – The Western Ontario Wardens’ Caucus (WOWC) continued to build on its meaningful and critical partnerships with representatives of the province during the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) 2023 Conference from Aug. 20 to 23, WOWC officials state.

MINTO – In July, Countryside Midwifery Services moved its office from Palmerston to the Lions Medical Building in Harriston, where it was able to set up a private room with a birth suite.

CENTRE  WELLINGTON - Groves Memorial Community Hospital recently received a cheque for $100,000 from Gemini Homes.

MINTO — The Harriston and District Horticultural Society held its summer flower show on Aug. 15 at the Harriston Community Centre with over 130 entries of flowers and vegetables.