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At the Feb. 25 council meeting, councillors approved a recommendation by the town’s strategic priorities committee to have the removal of the concrete structures be presented during the town’s 2026 capital budget deliberations as part of an overall plan for revitalizing the west quarry. “The issues (at the west quarry) all revolve around the historical-industrial use and the site not being properly cleaned up before it
Matthew Rae will once again be heading to Queen’s Park as Perth-Wellington’s MPP. He secured another decisive victory in the snap provincial election on Feb. 27. At the Mitchell Golf and Country Club that evening, just minutes after major polls called his win, Rae thanked his supporters. “The good people of Perth-Wellington and Ontario have made their voices heard,” Rae said. “They've chosen to re-elect a strong, stable, majority Conservative government in the Province of Ontario, a historic victory this evening for our Progressive Conservative Party. No premier has achieved three back-to-back majority governments and hopefully – fingers crossed, I know it’s early – an increased seat count. “The night is still young,” he joked. According to the unofficial election results from Elections Ontario, with 8,073 of 8,079 Ontario polls reporting, Rae’s last hope did not come true. The PCs won their third majority government with 80 seats. In the 2022 election, they won 83. The Ontario NDP will be the official Opposition, securing 27 seats. The Ontario Liberal Party will have 14 seats, the Green Party of Ontario has two and an independent has one. With 59 of 59 Perth-Wellington polls reporting their results, Rae secured 20,752 votes and 47 per cent of the vote, slightly up from when he was first elected to the legislature in 2022. That year, he secured 19,468 votes, over 10,000 more than the runner-up, the NDP candidate, Jo-Dee Burbach. The runner-up this election is Liberal Ashley Fox with 12,547 votes, 28.42 per cent of the vote and nearly doubling her performance from
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Newly re-elected MPP Matthew Rae walks hand in hand with wife Meghan Thomson into the lounge at the Mitchell Golf and Country Club just minutes after the polls closed at 9 p.m. on Feb. 27. Rae will once again be heading to Queen’s Park as Perth-Wellington’s provincial representative.
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Part of an effort to clean up the town’s west quarry, also known as the fishing quarry, with the goal of opening up recreational opportunities similar to those at the town’s swimming quarry, council recently endorsed a plan that includes the removal of the large concrete structures left behind by limestone-mining at the site.
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