Busy week for the Tobacco Police. 11 incidents reported. RCMP report: “The following details are seizures from September 10th to September 17th. A total of 9,450 cartons/resealable bags of contraband cigarettes, 302 kilograms of fine cut tobacco, 8 vehicles, 1 boat and 1 trailer were seized. A total of 10Continue Reading
L I N K That’s the link to Lorne Wiebe’s opinion piece today. He was going off on Mark MacDonald and Mary Ann Hug’s suggestion in Concil to form a committee to examine how to expand the population of Cornwall. I was sitting and listening to John Bolton in betweenContinue Reading
Why do they do a rabies clinic for only one day with a 4 hour window? I know, vets need to make a living too. For $18 you can vaccinate your dog or cat. No examination of your animal is given or other shots. For more info visit their WEBSITE.Continue Reading
There are lots of upcoming shows and music gigs coming to Cornwall. Here is all the latest news! Dark Days or Fair is playing a gig on Saturday September 19th 2009 at City Limits in Cornwall. This is a charity fundraiser for breast cancer. And who doesn’t like breast? Exactly.Continue Reading
Yes, you can find us now on Facebook under Cornwall Freenews After listening to Bob Peters say that Facebook tripled the traffic to www.choosecornwall.ca we figured we should jump on the bandwagon too! What do you think Cornwall? Do you Facebook? We’re cwfnews on Twitter as well although we don’tContinue Reading
Do you know anyone that got a job at the new Government Call Centre? Even as a janitor? All that talk; all that improvement, pointing to the government website only to not see the posting. Were the jobs all gobbled up by government employees from Ottawa? Email usContinue Reading
Busy night at City Council. It’s always good to see so many people attend even if a bunch were a Ball team. Our Mayor Bob Kilger always is happiest at these meetings when some sports team or person is present and he had the players and coaches from the BlackContinue Reading
We are on a pace to double our traffic from last month. Stunning. We just blew past the 35,000 page view mark, but for some reason some of our content seems to be drawing a lot of you to read, watch, and listen. In the last week we are onContinue Reading
I was at the Farmer’s Market on George Assaly lane today. Super market; nice weather; I love Reg’s Coffee and some Buffalo Jerky (they have a spicy one with some kick) and I was talking about how it’s nice to shop local and advertise locally. I was corrected. I shouldContinue Reading
If you call the Penny Grader number you will sadly see that this local institution of 14 years has shuttered close. Ed Lauzon could not be reached for comment. No cause for the shut down has been given although the newspaper had been for sale. If you are looking forContinue Reading
Here is a L I N K to Thom’s great story this week in the Seaway News. I had the honour of working for the Habs the year they moved from the greatest building in Hockey history to that monstrosity they play in now. “The same can be said ofContinue Reading
Tomorrow at their offices on Sydney, between Independent’s and Canadian Tire there is going to be a BBQ at Cornwall Electric. Bring in your bill for a chance to win! Please visit our sponsors:Continue Reading
I spent some time this morning with Julie Roy of the Ontario SPCA SD&G Branch here in Cornwall. She gave me the tour and we talked about the recent Half Price promotion that found homes for over 20 cats. I’m not a fan of shelters that are not “No Kill”Continue Reading
They sure do come down a lot faster than they grow up. This was pretty much what was left of the Brookshell Auto Dealership this morning. It was kind of sad to look at. It’s due to be replaced by a new strip of stores featuring Shopper’s Drug Mart. pleaseContinue Reading
I’m not a political scientist. I’m not a geographer. In other words I’m not an expert on this area, but I have politicians, and people of all sorts talk to me about some of the fundamentals of the Bridge Crisis which I’ve covered here in this paper. I am ofContinue Reading
It’s not going to be a Rock n Roll Station, or an Easy Listening, nor even Country music station. Will you listen to a local talk show full of local news and content? IE Do you think people are interested in what’s going on in Cornwall? We need to know,Continue Reading
It wasn’t all fun and Hot Dogs. There was some serious speech making. Here is Cornwall City Councilor and Darlene Jalbert’s campaign manager Elaine MacDonald in action. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMIeV-aLfII There was a minor fracas as 3 people with placards who were handing out tracts heckled some of the supporters in theContinue Reading
You will be able to find and read our entries via Google News shortly as we were just accepted by the Online Giant! It should take a few weeks to be fully indexed. Thanks to all of you who read and support us as we couldn’t have taken this stepContinue Reading