As we look back on the week that was, here are our most-read stories:
1. At a ceremony Tuesday morning in St. Thomas, Element5, officially opened its new state-of-the-art glue-laminated production line and expansion of its mass timber manufacturing facility in the city’s north end.
Element5 is the province’s first certified manufacturer of cross-laminated timber, and the expansion more than doubles the size of the plant from 130,000 square feet to over 350,000 square feet.
$107 million expansion of Element5 mass timber manufacturing operation in St. Thomas
2. St. Thomas Police have arrested a 36-year-old city man in connection with an armed robbery Tuesday evening at a business on Wellington Street at First Avenue.
St. Thomas Police make arrest in armed robbery at city plaza
3. A 56-year-old St. Thomas man is facing impaired driving charges following a collision Friday morning.
St. Thomas impaired driver charged after striking parked car
4. A 56-year-old St. Thomas man is facing numerous charges after he was caught stealing electrical wire from the Santa’s House display at the Elgin County Railway Museum.
Railway museum theft results in additional charges for St. Thomas man
5. Aylmer police are investigating after a local business was defrauded out of more than $12,000 in an email scam.
