Community News from St. Marys and area.
Employees received “official” letter The employees at Heinz on James Street South, received the “official” word this week that the company will be closing their doors for good on November 30th. There are over 200 employees who will be affected by the closure. In recent weeks the company has been trucking equipment to Quebec and…
With Monday being Thanksgiving (it kind of snuck up on everyone!) it is a Statutory holiday in Ontario. The usual businesses such as the banks, the Post Office, the Town of St. Marys offices, the LCBO and the Beer Store, are all closed. Also closing on Monday will be Canadian Tire and Riannas Diner. The…
The St. Marys Museum Board is holding its first ever Art, Antiques and Appraisals event as part of the annual Culture Days celebration. The event is happening on Saturday, October 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the St. Marys Museum and Archives. Four professional appraisers will be on hand at the event to…
Over 230 athletes lined up under sunny skies on Water Street South in St. Marys last Sunday for the 2016 River Road Run. There were 124 people ranging in age from 1 to 67 finishing the 3 km run either on foot or in a stroller. Eleven-year-old Kelly Mantel of Princeton placed first with a…
Award-winning, biosolids and organics solutions firm, Lystek International Inc. (Lystek) and the Town of St Marys have entered into a formal agreement that will see Lystek look after all marketing and sales of LysteGro, the Class A quality, federally registered, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) biofertilizer product produced at the town’s Wastewater Resource Recovery Center. …
Experience the world by food & drink in your own backyard & local community. An original small-town girl, Lisa Culbert has spent the past 6 years living and working as a lawyer in the “Big Smoke” of Toronto and recently resumed living in what she can only describe as the welcoming and wonderfully peaceful town…
By Dan Rankin A ribbon-cutting was held at St. Marys Memorial Hospital’s west wing family lounge on Monday, which received a major facelift recently thanks in part to a $25,000 donation from Trillium Mutual Insurance’s Trillium ROOTS Community Fund. The new lounge, which is regularly used by such visitors to the hospital as the families…
By Dan Rankin Last Friday morning, a parade of nearly 40 people bearing protest signs and cardboard mockups of train cars set out from a concrete (or, rather, limestone) symbol of this town’s long tradition of rail travel: the historic St. Marys Junction Railway Station. They were bound for the current St. Marys railway station,…
By Dan Rankin There were 36 teams out at the St. Marys Golf and Country Club last Friday for this year’s Brain & Mind Matters (BAMM) Golf Tournament, which has been held the past three years to raise money for the Staffen family’s BAMM Community Fund through the Stratford Perth Community Foundation. In 2013, the…
By Dan Rankin The owner of The Camper, a Mexican-inspired takeaway restaurant located near the corner of Water and Jones in downtown St. Marys, called his decision to close the eatery “heart wrenching” but “necessary” after a chronic medical condition left him in a deteriorating state of health. In a recent post on Facebook, Camp…