Municipal News

This year’s theme: “Charge into Fire Safety: Lithium-Ion Batteries in Your Home.”

In many home fires, you may have as little as 2 minutes to safely escape from the time the smoke alarm sounds. A well-practiced escape plan can make all the difference.

Fire Safety Tips:

• Install smoke alarms on every level of your home, inside bedrooms, and outside sleeping areas.
• Test alarms monthly and replace batteries twice a year.
• Plan two ways out of every room, and ensure exits are clear.
• Practice your home fire escape plan with the whole family—especially children and seniors.
• Teach children how to respond if they hear a smoke alarm.

Our local volunteer fire departments work hard year-round to keep our communities safe. Let’s do our part by being prepared and aware.

The Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s hosted its annual Business Appreciation Dinner and Awards at the Sherbrooke Lion’s Club Hall on Thursday October 2^nd, 2025.

The event recognized the wide range of businesses that make our community strong, from farming, forestry and fishing to wood products and manufacturing, construction to childcare, hospitality and tourism, real estate, and our many other goods and service industries.

The community was given the opportunity to nominate and vote for local businesses for achievement recognition trophies and runner-up certificates of recognition.

In opening statements, Warden James Fuller remarked that all local businesses, large or small were the life blood of our communities and thanked everyone who attended to this recognition event.

Click the link below to view the full Press Release and see the award winners.
document Press Release - 2025 Business Appreciation Awards(42 KB)

Fore Sale: The Municipality is selling approximately 4200 square feet of rubber matting located at 164 Old Road Hill. The rubber matting is composed of full and partial 4’x6’ rubber mats.  Mats will be sold individually for $20/mat for a full 4’x6’ mat and $5 for all partial mats. HST is included in the price of the mats. This will be on a first come first serve basis. To qualify, purchasers must email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to solidify your priority of purchase. Successful purchaser will be contacted in the order of emails received. Please indicate within the email the best means of contact and how many mats you would like to purchase. Payment for the rubber mats can be made at the Municipal Office prior to pickup or at the time of pickup. Pickup can be arranged between Public Works and the purchaser. The removal of the mats will be the sole responsibility of the purchaser. Mats must be paid for and removed by Friday October 10th, 2025.

The October 2025 edition of the Municipal Newsletter is now available for view, please click the link below:

https://www.saint-marys.ca/2025-newsletters/3186-10-october-2025-municipal-newsletter/file.html