Galen Simmons

Wilmot Township is hoping its most famous mythical resident will help introduce more people to some of the community's biggest attractions.

Perth County council has declined to formally reprimand Coun. Rhonda Ehgoetz or suspend her pay after the county's integrity commissioner found she breached multiple provisions of council's code of conduct stemming from a contentious forestry-bylaw debate earlier this year.

A powerful storm that swept across southwestern Ontario on Canada Day left behind downed trees, power outages and scattered property damage in St. Marys and across the region, though the community's Canada Day celebrations escaped unscathed.

Drivers travelling southeast of St. Marys can expect a temporary road closure later this summer as Perth County replaces a deteriorating culvert on Perth Road 139.

Summer break can be a welcome change of pace for school-aged children, but the end of the school year also means many lose easy access to the teachers, guidance counsellors and support staff they rely on throughout the year.

For anyone who's ever wondered whether Castle Kilbride is truly haunted, there will be plenty of opportunities to find out this fall.

Following the adoption of its updated asset management plan, Perth South council has turned its attention to the condition of several aging municipal facilities, identifying the St. Pauls playground and two public works buildings as priorities for future investment.

The Township of Perth South has adopted an updated asset management plan that charts a more sustainable path for maintaining roads, bridges, buildings and other municipal infrastructure over the next decade while significantly reducing its long-term infrastructure funding gap.

By: Galen Simmons It was one of those opportunities I couldn't turn down.

How can a family move on when grief seems to be tearing apart its very foundation piece by piece?