Stratford, St. Marys, North Perth, West Perth, Perth East and Perth South are looking to their residents for input as they collaboratively develop a Community Safety and Wellbeing (CSWB) Plan. All municipalities in Ontario are required, under the Province's Safer Ontario Act, 2018, to develop a CSWB Plan by 2021.

The goal of the CSWB Plan is to achieve the ideal state of a sustainable community where everyone is safe, has a sense of belonging, access to services and where individuals...
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Church Street will be closed between Queen Street East and Station Street from Tuesday, August 4 to Tuesday, September 25.

The closure is due to work being done on the Church Street Bridge that includes:

• Bridge deck repairs
• Replacement of parapet walls
• Installation of a new pedestrian handrail
• Isolated mortar re-pointing of abutment

Local traffic will be permitted while the work is being done, but the bridge will be closed for the duration of the project. Pedestrians and motorists will...
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Effective immediately today, Monday, July 27, and thanks to consistent enough rainfall over the past week, the open air fire ban has been lifted in the County of Perth, including the Town of St. Marys. Burn permits can now be issued and must abide by the respective municipality’s open air burn by-law. To apply for a burn permit for the Town of St. Marys, visit www.townofstmarys.com/burnpermits. 

With the monitoring of rainfall and vegetation conditions, Fire Chiefs are...
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Funding will be used to launch “Friendship Centre Without Walls”

The St. Marys Friendship Centre has been given a funding boost. The centre recently received $20,000 from the Stratford Perth Community Foundation through the Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund.

The centre is using the funding to launch a new “Friendship Centre without Walls” program. The initiative is an expansion of the current Community Wellness Program, which was...
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The Town of St. Marys is sharing preliminary re-opening plans for select municipal facilities as it prepares to move into Stage 3 of the Province’s COVID-19 recovery framework. Stage 3 comes into effect in St. Marys as of 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2020.  

All re-opening decisions have been made with the guidance of the Town’s Municipal Operations and Services Recovery Framework. This document outlines the Town’s approach to re-opening and emphasizes...
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