Category Archives: Post to St. Thomas News
How locals feel about the Coronavirus so far
Discussion about the novel Coronavirus continues after multiple professional sports leagues have cancelled games and even suspended play indefinitely. This follows the announcement from the World Heal...
Mar 12, 2020
Library to host Amazing Race style program during March Break
St. Thomas Public Library is helping to beat that March Break boredom with their March Break at the Library: Amazing Race event. Beginning at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 16th kids will have the opportuni...
Mar 12, 2020
St. Joe's robotics team members head to Uganda for March Break outreach trip
Members of the St. Joseph's Catholic High School robotics team will be taking their skills across the world this March Break when they travel to Uganda with Just Cause Education Outreach. Just Cause i...
Mar 12, 2020
City management team formulates coronavirus plan
With more than 118-thousand cases reported worldwide, the World Health Organization is now calling the novel coronavirus a pandemic. City manager Wendell Graves told members of council on Monday the t...
Mar 11, 2020
2020 Impact Awards finalists announced
The St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commerce has announced this years finalists for the 2020 Impact Awards. The event that will be taking place on May 14th at the St. Anne's Centre will celebrate...
Mar 11, 2020
OPP fraud prevention month
March is fraud prevention month, and the Ontario Provincial Police want to make sure everyone is wary of scams. Detective Sergeant Ted Schendera says fraud is something that's reported every day acros...
Mar 11, 2020
Plans for a hospice in Elgin continues to move forward
As the only county in southwestern Ontario without a palliative care hospice, plans are moving forward on the eventual construction of a 10-bed facility to serve St. Thomas and Elgin county. The two m...
Mar 11, 2020
Woman charged with impaired offences after driving into a ditch
A 61 year old St. Thomas woman is facing 2 different impaired driving charges following a single vehicle collision on Bush Line Monday afternoon. Officers located the woman trapped inside her vehicle ...
Mar 11, 2020
Close call for Port Stanley fishing tug
A close call Tuesday afternoon for a fishing tug in Lake Erie about five miles out from Port Stanley. The tug began taking on water after a damaged prop punctured the hull. It took about 45 minutes to...
Mar 10, 2020
Celebrate the success of other women
Her story is one, not only of inspiration, but of overcoming obstacles that would have seemed insurmountable to many others. Reta Ismail was the guest speaker at last night's International Women's Day...
Mar 10, 2020
