We’re looking for a few good images. If you notice we’re playing with the background for our site, and while looking at various offerings on the net we came up with the idea of putting out a call to local visual artists. Email us your image at info@cornwallfreenews.com andContinue Reading
Busy slate of games in the NHL last night. Montreal was still out shot in a sleeper of a game, They won 3-1 via goals by Andrei Kostitisyn, Marc-Andre Bergeron and my new favorite Hab Mike Cammallieri, but shots were 15 -13 for Philly. Georges Laraque madeContinue Reading
The Cornwall Public Library welcomes novelist Maggie Wheeler on Wednesday December 16 at 6:30 p.m. Maggie who is a frequent guest at the library has recently launched “On a Darkling Plain”, her fourth and final novel in her Lost Villages mystery series. Registrations are required for this free program andContinue Reading
PRIDE/FIERTÉ CORNWALL’S SCHEDULE OF FUNDRAISING PARTIES FOR 2010 ANNOUNCED After much deliberation and hard work, the executive committee of Pride/Fierté Cornwall is pleased to announce their schedule of fundriasing parties for the coming year which will help fund the staging of Pride Weekend 2010, the annual festival of LGBT diversityContinue Reading
We’re going to do a poll and find out who you think is Cornwall Ontario’s Person of the Year for 2009. Contest will end December 31, 2009 at Midnight! Email in your suggestions and why to info@cornwallfreenews.com – We’ll be adding candidates to the poll as they come in.Continue Reading
Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Christmas is almost here. If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet what better place in Cornwall to shop than at The Cornwall Square? Gift Cards….always the perfect gift! Let that special someone choose from the finest selection of fashions, home decor, electronics, services &Continue Reading
If you love to write this group is for you if you’re in the Cornwall area. From novices to the more experienced there’s nothing like being in a room full of creative people to get you going in the right direction. Here is a blurb from Lorna Foreman whom youContinue Reading
The Year in Review meeting is a popular meeting that is expected to attract hundreds of business people, including special guests from outside of the City. The meeting will be held on Friday, December 18, 2008 at 7:00 am, at Aultsville Theatre at St. Lawrence College. The highlight of theContinue Reading
I was going to write this story last night, before the game, but decided not to. I couldn’t imagine this team losing after the emotion of the evening which saw almost every living Montreal Canadien’s legend on the ice including many that I’d worked with in the past. AsContinue Reading
Gotta love the net for finding news and bits. Keith “Ciaran” Duffy returns to Coronation street to heat up the screen with Kym Marsh (Michelle Connor) Check out the photo gallery as Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald celebrates his 20th year on the show. “This week it’s exactly 20 years sinceContinue Reading
Stacy Landriault and her partner Alain Leblanc have opened up one heck of a Pet Store at 805 Sydney here in Cornwall Ontario. It’s a smaller version of big box pet stores and features a full line of pet food as well as a grooming facility, birds, fish, reptiles, lizards,Continue Reading
Being outshot 23-37 doesn’t win you a whole lot of hockey games. Not drawing penalties isn’t a winning formula either. Hall Gill & Paul Mara in the same D corps…..um,erm…..with Ryan O’Byrne isn’t reminiscent of Pointu, Bird, and Serge. It’s not even reminiscent of Jacques Laperierre. The goodContinue Reading
The Cornwall Free News is proud to welcome our newest sponsor; Cornwall Square. Located in the heart of downtown Cornwall, next to beautiful Lamoureux Park and Cornwall’s scenic waterfront, Cornwall Square is indeed Cornwall’s premier shopping complex. Built in 1979, Cornwall Square will soon celebrate its 30th Anniversary. It isContinue Reading
I was just telling my wife a few weeks ago how sad people would be when Maggie Jones (Blanche) of Coronation Street passes on and now she has. Coronation Street for those of you not familiar is a soap in Britain that is about to celebrate its 50th season. Continue Reading
I blame Michael Peeling of the Free-Holder for writing this STORY. All day I’m getting emails and phone calls asking why I haven’t linked to or written about it. Frankly it’s the same reason I feel for CBSA officers in the bridge crisis. They’re stuck in the middle. IContinue Reading
SD&G OPP FOCUSES ON SAFE DRIVING ON OUR ROADWAYS (SD&G Counties) – The SD&G Ontario Provincial Police will be using all available resources and personnel over the festive season to crack down on those who drink and drive and those who fail to buckle up on all our roadways. MotoristsContinue Reading
Tickets go on sale starting Friday, December 4th and every weekend till December 18th for the Celebration Sleigh. The Draw will take place at the Cornwall Square @ 12:00. Over $4000.00 worth of prizes and gifts to be won by one person. The United Way is also proud to haveContinue Reading
Christmas in Afghanistan – Let the Troops know we Care Joy Clement is a military mom. She knows what it is like to have sons serving in Afghanistan, and they’ve both made sure she knows what it’s like to be over there. Thankfully, both Jeffrey of the SD&G Highlanders, and Michel,Continue Reading