10 years ago — 2002
The boards of the following Huron Perth hospitals — St. Marys Memorial, Alexandra Marine & General in Goderich, Clinton Public, Seaforth Community, South Huron in Exeter and Stratford General — announced in a press release that they are conducting an examination of the implementation and benefit of becoming a single organization.
Police were called to a report of an alarm at the St. Marys Golf and Country Club recently. Police arrived to find large wooden sliding doors pulled apart slightly and an attempt to enter the building had been made. The alarm scared off the would-be thief.

25 years ago — 1987
McLean Taylor Construction Ltd. has submitted a $1.5 million proposal for the complete design and reconstruction of the St. Marys Opera House. This is for the conversion of the building into a 17 unit complex with space for three or four retail stores on the ground floor. This price does not include the cost of the central peak of the building. It was estimated by McLean Taylor that this would cost an additional $24,000.
There will be no closure of rural post offices and no reduction of rural route mail delivery in the foreseeable future, says Perth Member of Parliament Harry Brightwell. That decision came from negative public reaction to a House of Commons recommendation to privatize some rural post offices and close others.

50 years ago — 1962
Arthur Kentish, Percy Howell, and Norman Cousins retired from the employ of Maxwell Ltd. at the end of 1961. Art had been with the firm since 1923, practically all of the time as a shipper; Percy has been with the firm since 1934 as a machinist; and Norm since 1923, first as a foundry employee and in later years in the machine shop.
We See: THAT 234 births were registered in St. Marys in 1961.
From Women’s Hospital Auxiliary meeting: Members had been asked at the December meeting to think up ideas to earn money for the immediate necessities for the Hospital. A motion was passed that each member should entertain at a tea in her home the number of 10 friends at 50 cents a person. Also in the same motion: there is to be an afternoon Dessert Bridge later on in the season.
During the noon hour period last Wednesday, St. Marys firemen were called to the Nethercott Garage at Rannoch where an overheated pipe was the cause of the alarm, and to the C. Richardson plant on Wellington Street, when pressure in the sprinkler system had rung an alarm in the Fire Hall. Damage was slight.

75 years ago — 1937
Newly elected officers of the Young Men’s Bible Class of the United Church Sunday School include: Teacher Lorne Eedy, associate teachers Walter Cull, Erskine Evans, and Keith Clysdale, President Harold Upsdell, Vice President Lloyd Somerville, Secretary J.J. McLaughlin, pianists Walter Cull, Paul Allmark, Jack McLaughlin, and Dean Panabaker. Other officers were Ralph Tyler, Alvin Kerslake, Walter Cull, Max Andrews, Frank Lehman, Malcolm McMurray, Graeme Kirsten, Harvey Rea, Albert Donard, Dr. Fred Follick, Robert Deltman, Chas Hanham.
100 years ago — 1912
It is our Jubilee Year — 50 years in business. The White and May Co. Limited. FOUR STORES — St. Marys, Ailsa Craig, Parkhill, and Strathmore.
The Canadian Foresters were busily engaged last week in moving the stable on the Ontario House property. Mr. W. Parkinson of London Twp. has the contract and, owing to the dilapidated condition of the sills, it is proving quite a job. Mr. Wm. Radcliffe was struck on the hand by a chain, breaking a finger, which was very painful. There were several narrow escapes when part of the frame collapsed of a truss. Wm. Knowles and John Knox were pinned under a sill and only that it caught on the old scales would have undoubtedly have proved a fatal accident. As it was they escaped with some scratches and bruises. (Granton)
The former members of the I.O.F. Band have organized a Citizen band of 23 members to be known as St. Marys Town Band and have made an appearance at the Town Council asking permission to use the town instruments for which a guarantee will be given by a committee of some of the leading citizens.