Not bashful about combining the old with the new in Elgin County courthouse

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Restoration of the Elgin County courthouse would prove cheaper than construction of a new consolidated court facility in St. Thomas.
That was the guarantee from London developer Shmuel Farhi to a capacity gathering Thursday at the St. Thomas Public Library on hand to hear his proposal to fully retrofit and add on to the Wellington Street facility that pre-dates Canada.
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We can’t seem to keep our own face clean

Ian McCallum

Ian McCallum


Call it a spring awakening, but as the sun and warming temperatures greeted us this past week, the disappearing mountains of snow uncovered the detritus remaining from what felt like an interminably long winter.
The transition from March to April is far from the most picturesque time of year, what with grotty grey banks of frozen debris slowly surrendering to the solar rays, in the process uncovering an unsightly, if not interesting, array of garbage/items in the melting mess. Continue reading