According to a Fraser Institute report French area schools are getting better results than English one. Click the LINK for the full story. Officials with the region’s two English-language school boards said that while EQAO data is an important tool for improving student learning, the Fraser Institute’s ranking system isContinue Reading
News that a company is looking for a Cornwall SD&G area location to place a new Drive In movie theatre. They’ve been looking for a 7-12 acre parcel of land that doesn’t need to be cleared and is zoned. They also need a community that will make it easier toContinue Reading
LINK Tough new laws are to be in place here in Ontario with the passing of new laws. Hopefully they will have some checks and balances as I’ve already heard some horror stories from OSPCA implementation regarding a few “cat ladies” who may end up losing their homes as wellContinue Reading
More tobacco arrests in the area. LINK RCMP seized nearly 6,000 resealable bags of cigarettes from a garage and a van parked near a Williamstown residence in South Glengarry early last week. A 38-year-old and a 50-year-old, both from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, and four younger man, aged between 20Continue Reading
Auto fire on 12th street this weekend. Click the LINK to see photos and the whole story. According to Cornwall Fire Department Capt. Reg Grant, a father and his son were working on fixing a car at their Twelfth Street East home when a spark set off the fire OLYMELContinue Reading
LINK Looks like Eco Farm Day 2009 was a big success. Congrats to everyone including chair Tom Manley Please link to our sponsors:Continue Reading
FOR MORE RESTO REVIEWS CLICK HERE Wow, I found a blogger out there reviewing some of Cornwall’s finer eateries. I’m going to be doing this too, but thought I’d see how you folks appreciate this person’s reviews. What do you think of this Blogger’s reviews? And if you have aContinue Reading
LINK Big sting here in Cornwall by the RCMP. The weeklong blitz, which wrapped up Monday, saw officers seize 19 vehicles, 21,000 bags and cartons of cigarettes and nearly 900 kilograms of fine-cut tobacco. Police also say they found US$260,000 in one vehicle. Please visit our sponsors:Continue Reading
LINK Interesting letter to the editor in the Standard Freeholder today. Our taxes are high on our house too, but if we were in Ottawa they’d be higher. Cornwall faces some interesting challenges as a small city. Let’s see if I can get a City Councillor to respond to thisContinue Reading
Due to overwhelming demand the Justin Trudeau Community Breakfast (Saturday March 14th from 8:30-10:30) has had to change the location to the Cornwall Civic Complex Salons A-C. People can still order tickets by contacting Denis at 613 346 5416 or e-mail m3011@glen-net.ca or check out the Liberal riding association websiteContinue Reading
LINK Good news and hopefully over 100 jobs to the city! Way to go Cornwall! And construction for the project will create more local work. The city is also moving forward with the construction of a new north-south road in the business park, connecting SCM Way and Industrial Park Road.Continue Reading
It’s flu season and a lot of people are going to catch it this year. There are some things YOU can do to help prevent it and help prevent the spread. WASH YOUR HANDS. A lot. The more the better. IF YOU SNEEZE. Try and sneeze into your elbow. NotContinue Reading
Link to our site; tell your friends, family and co-workers. For The Cornwall Free News to survive we will need lots of people reading this site and contributing to it. Have a story or issue you want to tackle? Contact us. Don’t like a story or agree with it? PostContinue Reading
Just received this release – Click the photo to link to the site. Join us at Eco Farm Day – eastern Ontario’s premier farm & garden conference. Organic, transitional and conventional farmers of field crops, market gardens, and livestock rely on Eco Farm Day for the best training, information, and commerceContinue Reading
Liberal star child Justin Trudeau will be making a rare visit to Cornwall. The SDSG Federal Liberal Association will be hosting a breakfast at the Best Western Parkway Inn Saturday March 14th from 8:30-10:30 AM.. Tickets for adults will be $15. It should be interesting to see if Mr. TrudeauContinue Reading
LINK Transcontinental Inc. , owner locally of The Seaway Valley News and many other news papers and magazines has laid off thousands of employees as revenues fall during the recession. Impact in Canada is in the hundreds as most of the cuts will come in the US. Please visit ourContinue Reading
So if Oil is trading at less than $35 per barrel why are we paying over .70 cents per litre? What’s up with our local Cornwall gas stations? Is it time to start some community boycotting? Haven’t the oil industry wreaked enough mayhem on our economy from last year’s shenanigans?Continue Reading