Category Archives: Post to St. Thomas News
St. Thomas woman killed in two-vehicle crash, city man charged
UPDATE AS OF 9:30 A.M. MONDAY . . . The individual charged in Friday's fatal crash on Highbury Avenue has been identified as Tyler Besterd, 23, of St. Thomas. He is scheduled to appear in London court...
Oct 04, 2020
The number of COVID-19 cases in St. Thomas holds at six
Southwestern Public Health is again reporting this morning (Sunday) no new confirmed COVID-19 cases in St. Thomas or Elgin county. However there is a new confirmed case in Oxford county. The number of...
Oct 04, 2020
COVID-19: No new St. Thomas cases on Friday
Southwestern Public Health is again reporting no new COVID-19 cases across its coverage area this morning (Saturday) and one resolved case. The number of confirmed ongoing cases in St. Thomas drops to...
Oct 03, 2020
New COVID-19 restrictions to be implemented
Stricter COVID-19 measures are coming into effect across Ontario. Premier Doug Ford announced masks will now be required in all regions in the province to combat the coronavirus after Ontario reported...
Oct 02, 2020
COVID-19: No new cases reported Friday in SWPH coverage area
Southwestern Public Health is reporting no new COVID-19 cases across its coverage area today. The St. Thomas total of confirmed ongoing cases remains at seven. Six of those cases involve individuals u...
Oct 02, 2020
Hospice of Elgin launches new program to support struggling families
Hospice of Elgin has launched a new program offering individual counselling to grieving families, caregivers, and palliative patients. Laura Sherwood, Hospice of Elgin, says the no-cost service is now...
Oct 02, 2020
"Reverse" holiday parade in the works for St. Thomas thanks to our local members of parliament
Elgin-Middlesex-London's MP and MPP are doing all they can to make sure their constituents can still celebrate the holiday season with a parade. Both Jeff Yurek and Karen Vecchio, with guidance from S...
Oct 02, 2020
US President Donald Trump and his first lady test positive for COVID-19
U-S President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. Trump tweeted the update early this morning. Trump's positive test comes just hours after the White House ann...
Oct 02, 2020
COVID-19: Updated school guidelines
The province has updated its COVID-19 screening guidance for children in school to remove abdominal pain and pink eye from the list of symptoms. It also says children with symptoms such as a runny nos...
Oct 01, 2020
COVID-19: St. Thomas now the lone municipality with ongoing cases in the SWPH region
Southwestern Public Health this morning is reporting two new confirmed COVID-19 cases in St. Thomas with all Woodstock cases now resolved. That brings the St. Thomas total of confirmed ongoing cases t...
Oct 01, 2020
