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Alert Ready emergency alerting system to be tested at 2:55 p.m.

Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:15 AM

On November 27, 2019, Ontario, along with other provincial and territorial emergency management organizations, will issue another test of Alert Ready, Canada’s emergency alerting system.

Most provinces and territories will issue one test message to be distributed over television, radio and compatible wireless devices. In Ontario, the test will commence at 2:55 PM EST.

Alert Ready is designed to deliver critical and potentially life-saving alerts to Canadians. Test alerts educate and simulate to Ontarians...

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Abandoned kittens find new home

Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 10:45 AM

Stratford Police Inspector adopts kittens who survived being left at St. Marys Cemetery

 

Some “good mews” has come from the sad story of five kittens who were abandoned at St. Marys Cemetery in early October.

Last week, Inspector Mark Taylor of Stratford Police Services adopted the two surviving kittens from the St. Marys Veterinary Clinic, where the pair were being nurtured after a woman discovered them after hearing mewing from a trash can while walking her dog at the south end of the cemetery.

The...

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New “no winter maintenance” areas authorized

Posted on Friday, November 22, 2019 04:30 PM

In 2019, the Town of St. Marys performed a comprehensive Service Delivery Review in an effort to be better positioned for current and potential future provincial budget cuts while ensuring that a high level of service can still be provided to residents without undue tax increases.

As a result of the Service Delivery Review, Public Works staff were directed to consider closing certain sections of the sidewalk/trail network to increase efficiencies. Due to the choice of suitable contractors and the...

City of Stratford announces Perth County EarlyON service providers

Posted on Friday, November 22, 2019 09:15 AM

The City of Stratford has released a letter to families announcing service providers for all EarlyON programs throughout Perth County. 

The Town of St. Marys will be the service provider for St. Marys.  Programs offered will be maintained and expanded upon in early 2020.

For more details, please view the letter at the following link:
https://www.stratfordcanada.ca/en/livehere/resources/EarlyON-Perth-County/EarlyON-2020-Communication-Letter.pdf

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Darren Barkhouse | Early Years Coordinator 
City...

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Fire Department uses new aerial ladder truck to help extinguish blaze

Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 09:15 AM

All of St. Marys’ firefighters and Fire Department vehicles were dispatched to a fire and managed to contain a blaze that destroyed a residential wood working shop early Friday morning.

Firefighters were dispatched at 11:20 p.m. on Thursday, November 7 to a structure fire at 161 King Street North and found that the two-story, wood building was "fully involved with fire" according to St. Marys Fire Chief Richard “Andy” Anderson.

"I did not know how severe it was until I crossed over the crest of Widder...