Stratford News

A nearly $40,000 provincial grant has helped Stratford’s Off the Wall Artists Alliance recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure its theatre-arts-training programs continue into the future.

By the end of this year, roughly 380 more rural households and businesses in Perth County will have access to reliable, high-speed internet thanks to a federal-provincial investment of nearly $1.6 million in two local broadband-infrastructure projects, Perth-Wellington MPP Matt Rae announced Friday.

The Stratford and District Chamber of Commerce has announced 46 nominees across nine categories for its 26th annual Business Excellence Awards gala Oct. 13.

Stratford’s Stackpole International has been bringing over Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion of their country who were previously working at the auto-parts manufacturer’s sister plant in Poland to help fill much-needed local jobs.

Both the cost and the number of resale homes sold continued to fall last month in Huron-Perth.

The City of Stratford will support Optimism Place women’s shelter as it prepares to break ground on a 6,000 square-foot, three-floor expansion to its current shelter building next month.

Led by the Stratford Perth Museum, a group of Stratford tourism and cultural organizations launched a new Culture Cab program this week, through which visitors can get free taxi rides to and from select cultural destinations in the city.

The City of Stratford will begin a search for a new integrity commissioner following a comprehensive review of the position at some point next year.

Local fire officials in Perth County and St. Marys have lifted an open-air fire ban that has been in place since mid-July.

The City of Stratford has introduced a proposed accommodations licensing bylaw that would, if approved, allow operators of short-term-rental accommodations in single-detached, semi-detached, converted and townhouse dwellings to legally operate in the city.