The chorus of voices opposing any kind of expansion at a dump site just north of Dresden continues to grow, a call for help from a distraught woman led to a sizeable police presence and an arrest on Sheldon Avenue in Chatham yesterday, and public school students in Grades 7 and 8 in Ridgetown will ride the bus with the high schoolers starting this fall.

Hydro One is holding a series of public meetings in the next few weeks on its new Longwood to Lakeshore project, the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is looking for new leadership, and healthcare camps looking to recruit students in rural communities are coming back this summer.

The trial for a Windsor man who was charged in a deadly crash during Retrofest in Chatham two years ago has been put off until the end of the month, one person was arrested peacefully and no injuries were reported after a heavy police presence in Chatham this morning, and the former curator of the Buxton National Historic Site and Museum is getting a big honour from the Southern Ontario Tourism Awards.

The head of Chatham-Kent's Chamber of Commerce will be stepping down later this year, several local groups are coming together in Chatham-Kent this weekend to mark International Women's Day, and a school bus driver is charged with careless driving causing bodily harm after a crash yesterday morning close to Woodstock.

Two people are facing charges after a crash in Chatham and an attempted escape from police custody, a child has been airlifted to hospital after a school bus carrying dozens of students rolled over south of Woodstock this morning, and the province has reached another deal with a major teachers' union.

Chatham-Kent's proposed development charges could be pricing the municipality out of future greenhouse expansion, parents with children at Dresden Area Central School will have a much earlier drop-off and pickup time this fall, and yesterday's high smashed a decades-long record for Chatham-Kent.

Chatham-Kent police are giving credit to a boater in Wallaceburg for helping them track down a vehicle that was reported stolen from Sombra more than a decade ago, the cause is going down as undetermined, and no injuries were reported after a fire burned out a garage in Chatham early this morning, and Tilbury's Brett Brochu has signed a professional tryout contract with an AHL team.