CFN – Smart City Toastermasters Club-Cornwall, decided to do a potluck Christmas dinner this year, held at Claudette Pilon and partner Gilles Routhier’s home. . It made the celebration more personal.   A special thank you to Gilles & Claudette from all of us toastmasters who attended that evening’s festiveContinue Reading

CFN – Eighteen year old Kelsie Granger didn’t get to celebrate New Years.  The first year student at St. Lawrence College was working behind the cash at Jonathan’s Convienence Store at 6th and Bedford streets in Cornwall Ontario when a masked intruder entered the store and threatened her with aContinue Reading

CFN –   We made it!  If you’re reading this we’ve all jumped over the line and are blinking and breathing in 2012.    Now I know some of you are fretting and getting all Mayan, but I have a hunch 2012 is going to be a heck of aContinue Reading

CFN –  As I sit here in the very early hours of the last day of 2011 I’m looking back at what was an interesting ride.    2011 probably won’t go down as my favorite year.  A lot of personal changes in life; becoming single again at my advanced age;Continue Reading

CFN – As the Christmas season is upon us, I have been privilidged to have the opportunity to taste all the traditional Danish Christmas dishes.Leading up to Christmas, it is very common to have some Christmas “snacks”, which are called “Æbleskiver” and “pebernødder”. Æbleskivers are very similar to Timbit’s. Although,Continue Reading

CFN –   I’m reading today about China sticking an online dissident, Chen Xi, to ten years in Jail.  Another,  Chen Wei was recently given a 9 year sentence.   I know; we’re not China…yet. You have the mayor of Toronto cutting off the largest paper in his city because they wouldn’tContinue Reading

CFN– Much Tease, on Cornwall’s downtown Pitt Street, is one of relatively few area small businesses that are set for expansion in the New Year. Owner Greg Mooney, who has run the store for the last twenty-two years, is confident about the future despite the slow economic climate that isContinue Reading

CFN –   Not too many businesses survive 70 years.   Especially not here in Cornwall.   While the old girl is limping; the Port Theatre, originally known as The Roxy is still surviving! The Roxy had four staff on the floor on opening night; Doris Lalonde Usherette; Mrs. YvonneContinue Reading

CFN – I am not used to promoting myself in such a direct way but the boss (Jamie) tells me that after all the articles that I have written promoting other businesses that I should put my modesty aside and highlight my own. . Aside from having an interest inContinue Reading

CFN – That’s a lovely Christmas photo from area photog Calvin Hanson.  I can’t think of a better Cornwall Free News photo of the day for this Christmas Day 2011! If you wish to submit your Photo or video of the day email us at info@cornwallfreenews.com Christmas is a timeContinue Reading

With all due respect your worship there seems to be a kaleidoscope of  confusion regarding the city of Cornwall under your current mandate? The Diane Shaye case, along with a few other cases including suggestions of heavy handed media targeted at council and the CAO.    Tax payers and Ms Shaye andContinue Reading

Dear Editor: Getting funding for our health services, especially for the elderly and those less fortunate, is going to be a major challenge in the future. The old General Hospital is presently an “Interim Long Care Facility” and with lengthy delays for long term health care, affordable assisted living and accessibleContinue Reading

  Dear Editor,  I’d like to take this opportunity to clarify City Council’s recent decision regarding the establishment of an advertising policy.  There have been some misguided suggestions that this is an attempt to censor public discussion. This is simply not the case. The City of Cornwall enjoys a positiveContinue Reading

CFN – The Canadian Cancer Society would like to thank Scotiabank for their generous for their generous contribution to the Drive For a Cure golf tournament. . The Matching Funds programs provided $2000 to the Fight against Cancer! Pictured above from left to right are Sheila Youmelle – Scotiabank, Diane Dupuis –Continue Reading