CFN – Yesterday I went to the South Stormont Township Hall and registered to be a candidate for councillor for the municipal election in October. I have been an observer of the municipal council this last term and now I want to be an active participant. During this past termContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – The City of Cornwall has updated the fire at the Aevitas PCB fire in Cornwall yesterday. The Event At approximately 12:20 pm on Monday, February 24th, a call was received by the 911 operator advising of a fire at Aevitas Inc., a business on Industrial ParkContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Wednesday February 26th is wear a Pink Shirt Day to celebrate Anti-Bullying. Bullying in our Politically Correct world is a scary thing. It’s about conforming and what happens to those that don’t. It’s what happens when an honest person confronts a group or person that is lyingContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Cornwall Police Services have blocked off a section of Boundary Road as there is a fire at the Aevitas Waste Disposal site at 2425 Industrial Park Drive. The plant deals in PCB recovery and CFN has not been told if the public should be concerned from inhalation ofContinue Reading
TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH STORMONT Contact Information Town Hall Telephone: 613-534-8889 or 1-800-265-3915 Fax: 613-534-2280 Address: 2 Mille Roches Road, PO Box 84, Long Sault, ON K0C 1P0 Email Address: info@southstormont.ca Council Mayor Bryan McGillis 613-937-3116 bmcgillis@southstormont.ca Deputy Mayor Tammy Hart 613-984-2543 tammy.farms@xplornet.com Councillor Cindy Woods 613-537-2977 cindy_woods@xplornet.com Councillor BarryContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The River Kings seem to have been cursed since day one. First it was Mayor Kilger and the city giving a lease deal to the Cornwall Colts knowing the River Kings were coming to the Civic Complex. That deal all but made it impossible for theContinue Reading
CFN – Tom Manley, pictured with Stephane Dion & David Jones from right to left above, reports from Day 2 of the big Liberal AGM in Montreal. On media access: I remember reading that media access was really difficult at the recent Conservative convention last year. Therefore, I asked theContinue Reading
Are you kidding me, city officials are powerless to stop the construction of the illegal chemical storage tanks that are being built on our waterfront! This is insane. The company ignores the “Stop Work Order” and they forge ahead with the tank farm. If an ordinary guy ignored anContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Well folks it’s been an interesting start since I announced that I’m running for mayor of our fair City of Cornwall Ontario. While I’m amazed at the positive support from emails and offers of help to having someone run up to me last night while pickingContinue Reading
CFN – The Union Gas station supplying natural gas to Ingleside has suffered from a low gas pressure today and have been forced to turn off supply to 747 of their customers. Employees of the gas utility have been turning off the meters at homes so they can testContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – I emailed Cornwall Ontario Mayor Bob Kilger who in spite of telling people that he will be running for Mayor again in the Fall has yet to file his papers as he’s busy selling out our Waterfront for Chemical tanks. It was a simple note I sentContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – One of the reasons I didn’t run for office last term is that CFN was still in its infancy and frankly the other media have been less than civil. Note in question is that the two that covered my announcement yesterday both went yellow bringing upContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The buzz around City Hall via the Chem Tanks is that shortly Economic Development head Mark Boileau will be shifted out into Stephen Alexander’s gig, and that Bob “Vienna Sausage” Peters will take over the department. Now of course this is rumour and speculation; but it sadlyContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Humility can be a great lesson. What we are learning today as Transport Canada and the Federal government allowed Trillium Distribution Cornwall Inc. to pour concrete and finish their Chemical tanks on our waterfront is that when you don’t work together you lose. In this caseContinue Reading
The City of Cornwall has a bylaw, that (in short), prohibits the use of excessive noise at all times in quiet zones, and all other zones from roughly 7PM (or 9PM, and even 11PM) until 7AM. The last three nights there have been constant snow removal teams working outsideContinue Reading
PERSONATION, OBSTRUCT POLICE, BREACH Cornwall, ON – Shawna Mitchell, 35 of Cornwall was arrested on February 18th, 2014 and charged with obstruct police, personation and breach of undertaking for failing to keep the peace. It is alleged that on February 18th, 2014 during a traffic stop in the areaContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The City of Cornwall has responded to construction starting again on the old Kaneb Oil Tank property by Trillium Distribution Cornwall Inc. today as well as that company’s appeal of its bylaw designed to stop construction on the waterfront. CFN has learned that concrete was scheduled toContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – The Chemical tanks on the former Kaneb Oil tank site issue is heating up again. Some of the questions I get in conversation is what I would have done if I had been mayor or on council in regards to the tanks as much of theContinue Reading