YAC (Your Arts Council) announced today that it was moving away from having an Executive Director and cutting ties with Bruce Davis. Davis had been with YAC since it’s political inception with Community Futures under Francois Desormeaux. YAC had stated at the budget hearings that it needed cash from theContinue Reading
FROM/DE: Stormont, Dundas & DATE: July 7th, 2015 Glengarry (SD&G) Detachment DRUGS SEIZED AT TRAFFIC STOPS (South Glengarry) – On July 3, 2015 at approximately 1:04pm, Stormont, Dundas &Glengarry Ontario Provincial Police officers intercepted a pedestrian on Highway 401, South Glengarry Township. The stop resulted in the seizure ofContinue Reading
Something my lovely ex wife complained about Cornwall was a lack of inclusion for we outsiders. I’ve lived here 12 years now and still am an outsider. I speak with some that have lived here over 25 years and they feel the same. Our first year my wifey triedContinue Reading
DOMESTIC ASSAULT Cornwall, ON – A 35 year old Cornwall woman was arrested on July 3, 2015. It is alleged that on this date she was in an intoxicated state and upset with her boyfriend. She yelled at him and punched him repeatedly. Her son observed the altercation and intervened.Continue Reading
Florence Nightingale opened the world’s first school of nursing in the St. Thomas Hospital in London in July of 1860. In time, the nursing schools spread around the world. The nursing students today are called Nightingales and that first school is part of the King’s College. All the graduates fromContinue Reading
It’s been a tumultuous year for Cornwall’s public art gallery, but the board and public had some fun and enjoyed a lovely downtown Saturday afternoon in Pommier Square! TAG Cornwall wishes to thank the community and especially Andre Pommier & the Pommier family for allowing us to use their squareContinue Reading
How is it that in reading the news from various sources, not one mention of the recent fuel price increase has been brought up? We recently saw a 6 to 7 cent per litre increase at the same time that North Sea Brent crude went down by 38 cents perContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The Art Gallery of Cornwall has overcome many obstacles in 2015. Board changes, a punitive City Council cutting its funding to ZERO, but the 33 year old public art gallery has shown that art and artists are a resilient bunch. Tired of the petty infighting withinContinue Reading
This seems to be the season the NHL cap really kicks in. In a normal world trading Phil Kessel for a bag of pucks wouldn’t make any sense. In the cap age….well. Brendan Shanahan and his team wanted to make a point and they traded away the team’s bestContinue Reading
ASSAULT Cornwall, ON – A 14 year old Cornwall youth was arrested on June 29, 2015. It is alleged that on June 28, 2015, she engaged in a verbal argument with her mother, in their residence, in the presence of her aunt. The argument escalated to the point where theContinue Reading
Oh Canada! Tomorrow is July 1st. Sadly you won’t see CFN participating in our local event that is about to be rained out (bad karma thanks to Guy) as our MP has hijacked Canada Festivities in our city. Canada Day, above all days, should be inclusive and community building.Continue Reading
DOMESTIC ASSAULT AND MISCHIEF Cornwall, ON – A 17 year old Cornwall woman was arrested on June 26, 2015. It is alleged that on this date she engaged in a verbal argument with her boyfriend which escalated to her pulling off and breaking the chain he wore around his neck,Continue Reading
DRUGS SEIZED AT TRAFFIC STOP (North Glengarry) – On June 26, 2015 at approximately 11:17pm, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry (SD&G) Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers intercepted a vehicle on Glen Robertson Main Street, North Glengarry Township. The stop resulted in the seizure of a quantity of suspected marihuana and cannabisContinue Reading
CFRA is a pretty staunch conservative talk radio station, still on the AM dial, in Ottawa, Canada’s Capital. It’s a mostly senior audience with a lot of folks from the country and rural areas sharing their um…..wisdom. One of their hosts is Nick Vandergragt who besides being a farmer does aContinue Reading
This spring seemed to zoom right by. To my embarrassment, although it could happen today (lol!), we have yet to plant our corn, squash and melons. Also, it appears we have fallen off the tomato sucker wagon this year… Again… Besides all that, my newest lesson in gardeningContinue Reading
The Boston Bruins are making waves ahead of the draft with not one, but two blockbuster deals that are already frustrating Bruin fans. The Bruins sent fan favorite Milan Lucic to the shipped off to LA for the 13th pick in the draft, goalie Martin Jones and minor leaguer ColinContinue Reading
Male and female charged with serious assault on UBER taxi driver (Ottawa)—The Ottawa Police Service has charged two people following a serious assault on a UBER taxi driver. On June 8, 2015, two males and a female got into a UBER taxi outside a downtown nightclub at Bank andContinue Reading
The Cornwall River Kings have kicked off their first Season Ticket drive for the upcoming season after Council decreed that they would only get 30% of advertising revenue from the Civic Complex. Second season owner Steve Moreau cited his own excitement after seeing fan response since he took over theContinue Reading