January 2021 Archive

2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: Nov – Dec

November • Banners featuring veterans will soon be seen hoisted above the streets of Shelburne, as part of the annual Hometown Heroes Remembrance Day initiative.  ...

2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: Sept – Oct

September • An entire classroom at a Shelburne elementary school has been told to self-isolate following an assessment of a positive COVID19 case by Wellington-Dufferin ...

2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: August

AUGUST • The plan released by the Ontario government will see elementary schools, kindergarten to Grade 8, reopen across the province and returning to the ...

Not quite as bad as it seems

by GWYNNE DYER Blaming the victims is never a good look. As Britain finally leaves the European Union, 1,651 days after the Brexit referendum of ...

A brand new decade

by BRIAN LOCKHART Yes, it’s a brand new year. I guess all those 1950’s late night science fiction movies and the Twilight Zone TV show ...

2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: March – July

March  • Shelburne Mayor Wade Mills has announced the Town is closing all municipal facilities until further notice in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. ...

2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: Jan & Feb

Attention Readers! For our first edition of the Shelburne Free Press in 2021, we will be taking you through all of the highs and lows ...

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrives at local health unit

Written By Paula Brown Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) has received their first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.  A spokesperson from the local health unit ...

It’s a boy!

Headwaters Health Care Centre has welcomed the first baby born at the hospital in 2021. Tristan Derek Peter Edwards was born at Headwaters on Jan. ...