January 27, 2022

January 27, 2022 5:55 am Published by

January 27th is the 27th day of the year. There are 338 days remaining until the end of the year.

Chatham-Kent Council will continue budget deliberations tonight at 6pm.

Budget talks began last night with the original projected a tax increase of 4.74% for 2022. Now, with the approval of some budget cuts, the proposed tax increase is down to 3.37%.

You can follow the discussion tonight on the municipality’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

Municipal offices in Ridgetown, Tilbury, and Dresden that have been closed for a couple of weeks because of COVID-19 are set to reopen today.

The centres have been closed since January 12 due to high levels of municipal staff under COVID-19 protocol.

The municipality still encourages to use municipal online services even though the centres are open.

Chatham-Kent Public Health reported two deaths from COVID19 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 46 locally; 6 this week alone.

There remains 14 patients hospitalized for COVID.

Ontario is reporting 4,016 people in hospital with COVID on Wednesday. There were 92 more deaths in the province; the highest daily total in over a year.

Gas prices on the rise across the province today.

The average in C-K is right around $148.9 cents per litre.

If the market stays the course, prices could jump again tomorrow. The GTA could see prices hit 151.9 cents a litre and 150.9 cents for most other cities in the province. That would be 2 cents above the all-time record for Ontario set on November 4th.

The city of Ottawa is honouring Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds by naming a new street after him in the east end, in recognition of his contributions to the city.

Reynolds, a Vancouver native, spent some of his childhood in Vanier, and has said he has fond memories of living in Ottawa.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod