CFN – Chief Administrative Officer Norm Levac would like to announce that Cornwall Fire Chief Richard McCullough will be retiring at the end of April 2015. Chief McCullough will retire on April 30th, 2015 after having completed a 35-year year career with the Cornwall Fire Department. Mr. McCullough wasContinue Reading
CFN – Remember the amazing movie by the late director Robert Altman called The Player starring Tim Robbins as a studio chief? It was a sanitized version of some of the bizarre head games that go on in “the biz.” Or one of my faves of the 90’s, SwimmingContinue Reading
CFN – The Ottawa Police Service conducted two simultaneous projects this year to address gun violence, gangs and drugs and laid a total of 254 charges and arrested 27 people involved with gang activities or organized crime. The two projects – Karma and Calamity — were created to respondContinue Reading
CFN – Long time CFN viewers are familiar with “Jules”. She’s a senior who grew up in Cornwall and now resides in Ottawa with her family. She’s a frugal avid quilter who as she puts it, is far right of Stephen Harper and Bush. (She never specifies whichContinue Reading
CFN – The world class accredited Velodrome in Milton, Ontario will be open in about two weeks. The rubber tires and carbon frames will kiss the wooden track like a silent dream. Sixty-three million dollars later a state of the art, 250 metre indoor track will soon be set for the Pan-Am games, Continue Reading
TRAFFIC STOP ENDS IN ARREST (South Glengarry) – On December 18, 2014 at approximately 12:10pm, an OPP Highway Safety Division (HSD) officer intercepted a vehicle for a traffic violation on County Road 34, South Glengarry Township. After initially stopping, the driver sped away in an erratic manner and was eventuallyContinue Reading
The City of Cornwall is looking for volunteers to help maintain additional outdoor rinks in the community this winter. Outdoor rink boards have been set up at Alexander, Broadview, Dover Heights, King George, Menard, Optimist, and Grant Parks. In addition to the locations mentioned above, the City is also interestedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Our local Toyota dealership came out and helped the United Way of SD&G reach their goal for this year! Troy Hickman GM/Owner presented a cheque to United Way President Danny Aikman. Over the last 5 weeks the staff at Cornwall Toyota held weekly charitable luncheons at theContinue Reading
CFN – On December 18, 2014, at approximately 7:30am, a 101 year old man was alone in his apartment in a residential building located in the 1-100 block of Durham Private, when a male suspect buzzed in at the reception door identifying himself as a City of Ottawa employee. TheContinue Reading
WARRANT Cornwall, ON – Shaine Robertson, 27 of Cornwall was arrested on December 17th, 2014 on the strength of a warrant. It is alleged that on October 14th, 2014 the man forcibly removed a gold chain from another man and police were contacted to investigate. During their investigation aContinue Reading
CFN – Well that was an interesting and anti-climatic council meeting in Long Sault. The new council under Comrade Tammy Hart decreed to kill advertising on both The South Stormont News and Cornwall Free News. At no point in our service to the township had we had any complaint regardingContinue Reading
CFN is proud of the written word and occasionally publishes short stories and poems. Tis being the season we are sharing a work by former Cornwall Resident and Author Roy Berger. Sadly another artist left our community leaving in us with barely much talent and for some weird reasonContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – I’m going to pay a rare compliment to our city council. Maybe rare shouldn’t be the term. Because of the weirdness that was the Kilger council of the last term there was very little to compliment our elected officials about. Nearly half of our currentContinue Reading
As we approach another Christmas, I would like to reflect on Christmas before and after becoming a Christian. For Christmas before becoming a Christian was a day; to most of us it meant very little. This year, Christmas will come and go, and it may have little or no impactContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Disgraced former Team Cornwall President Gilles Latour was actually thanked by current Team Cornwall President Peter Gault early this morning in what has to be one of the most bizarre public statements in light of the black eye Mr. Latour has given to the local business community.Continue Reading
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE Cornwall, On – The Cornwall Community Police Service is currently investigating a robbery that occurred on December 16th, 2014 at approximately 4 pm. A lone man armed with a hammer entered the hair studio located at 385 Eleventh Street East in the city of Cornwall and demandedContinue Reading
Ontario Provincial Police Officer Charged Case Number: 14-PVI-253 Mississauga (16 December, 2014) — The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Tony Loparco, has reasonable grounds to believe that an officer with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Lakeshore Detachment, committed a criminal offence in relation to the vehicle injuries sustainedContinue Reading
CORNWALL, Ontario (December 16, 2014) – On November 26, 2014, Kurtis Clarke of Cornwall, Ontario, was found guilty of six counts of animal cruelty under the Ontario SPCA Act. The charges included: Two counts of causing distress to an animal Two counts of permitting distress to an animal Two countsContinue Reading