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ELORA – Centre Wellington has initiated a study of five bridges in former Pilkington Township that are all within 20 kilometres of each other and closed to traffic – three of them for more than a decade.

ERIN – Council here has endorsed town comments to be submitted to the province in response to proposed changes to provincial planning policy.

ERIN – Residents’ priorities for the town were scribbled onto colourful sticky notes at a July 12 open house at the Erin Community Centre.

ELORA – It's just a drop in the bucket, but the owners of 27-43 Mill St. W. in Elora will receive a $10,000 grant Community Improvement Plan grant from the township.

ERIN – Competitors took to an arena for bull riding, barrel racing, pole bending, and bronc riding at the Ram Rodeo held at the Erin Fairgrounds on July 22 and 23.

GUELPH — On Aug. 10 to 13, Tony Molesworth will be returning for another three-day-run in the Guelph Fringe Festival.

MAPLETON – Police are reminding residents to be wary of investment scams after a Mapleton resident was defrauded of over $100,000 – and then several thousand more after "a company" claimed it could recover the lost funds.

PUSLINCH – Mayor James Seeley is no longer employed as a City of Guelph firefighter. “It’s a personal and private situation I am not willing to discuss,” he stated. Seeley also confirmed that clerk Courtenay Hoytfox has been named acting CAO of Puslinch Township.

PUSLINCH – The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) says the cause of smelly water coming from the taps in some homes in Puslinch is naturally occurring and is not the result of a chemical spill in drainage ditches on Highway 6. But in the absence of documents and data, some local

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Emergency services responded to a reported airplane crash at Belwood Lake on the evening of July 24.

KENILWORTH – Crombie Property Holdings Ltd. has signed an agreement with Wellington North after a cost sharing deal was left up in the air at a previous council meeting.

ERIN – A Hillsburgh man is charged with dangerous driving and impaired driving causing death following a two-vehicle crash here on Sunday evening that left an Erin resident dead. Emergency crews responded to the scene, on Wellington Road 22 near Trafalgar Road, on July 23 at about 6:15pm.

FERGUS - Thousands of festival goers flocked to St. Andrew Street for this year's Medieval Faire.

WELLINGTON NORTH – Elgin and Joan Craig have retained a law firm and are appealing Wellington North council’s June decision to deny a minor variance request.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Two Waterloo residents are facing weapon and drug charges after their vehicle was stopped by police.