Newington ON  – Are the Counties NUTS?  What on earth justifies a $8000.00 a year increase? This past October the Counties passed a by-law increasing the honorarium for the Wardens position from $19,159 to $27,000 that’s almost an $8,000 increase. Members of Council will receive an honorarium of $10,000 from what use toContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – Autumn is here again and once more it’s time to gear up for the highest of high holidays on the LGBT calendar. Pride/Fierté Cornwall will be marking it with the 2010 edition of their annual Halloween Hullabaloo on Saturday, October 30th. They’ll be back at the SpotlightContinue Reading

Cornwall ON –In contrast to most of the province, especially Ottawa, Toronto voters  opted for the extreme right for the next four years. . Rob Ford, the renegade councillor from Etobicoke, handily beat runner-up and former provincial cabinet minister George Smitherman. . Ford took 383,501 votes (47.1%) compared to Smitherman’sContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – How bad can a defense be when Alex Auld can get a win in net as the Montreal Canadiens back up got last night in Montreal’s 3-1 victory over the New York Islanders? Benoit Pouliot, Tomas Plekanec, and Travis Moen hit the back of the net forContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – ARTpreneur is hosting “Network Sizzler”, a wine and cheese event, on November 5th from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Nav Canada for $10.00.  The event will give attendees an opportunity to meet with the special line-up of guests scheduled for the ARTpreneur conference.  Those attending theContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – The Water Efficiency Team (W.E.T.) has been actively providing educational materials and in home support for local residents over the past few months again this past summer and have attained their goal. One hundred and fifty-five (155) homes throughout Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry, Prescott & Russell andContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – Matt Cain put the San Francisco Giants two games away from their first World Series win since 1954. They say pitching and defense win World Series and it looks like the San Francisco Giants are proving  just that with a team that’s very different than the BarryContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – Not only did Alex “Big Dawg” Kovalev score a goal, but the Ottawa Senators won a game defeating 5-3.    Daniel Alfredsson, Mike Fisher, Milan Michalek, and Zack Smith also scored. Tim Thomas shut out the Maple Leafs 2-0 in Bean Town.   The Leafs have nowContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – Limewire, the music sharing service has been shut down by Court injunction.   After losing a copyright infringement case several months ago the writing was on the wall for the pioneer in music sharing technology. LINK “disappointed with this turn of events.” “We are extremely proud ofContinue Reading

Cornwall ON – Media reports indicate that the Prime Minister’s new Chief of Staff has asked to appear before the parliamentary ethics committee on November 2nd. Nigel Wright will be there to answer questions from MPs of all parties, not just opposition MPs, over opposition concerns that his position willContinue Reading