More than four years after a devastating wildfire ravaged the village, Lytton took a big step towards rebuilding Friday.

In June 2021, a wildfire destroyed 90 per cent of Lytton’s infrastructure. After a slow but steady path towards recovery, the village held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of its new public works building.

Mayor Denise O’Connor says it’s been a challenge to reach this milestone.

“It was two years before anybody was even allowed onto their properties before the cleanup started. Some of the challenges, aside from just that slowness, is accommodations for workers or construction workers, tradespeople as they come in to do the rebuilding,” O’Connor told 1130 NewsRadio.

She says the public works building is the first of its kind.

“A number of private properti

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