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Cornwall Ontario – I was stunned when I heard about this memo distributed to staff and vendors of Cornwall Square after our story about the condition of the parking garage.   I was even more stunned when I received multiple copies of the documents. Karen Burns, manager of the squareContinue Reading

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CFN – Grenville County and Elizabethtown-Kitley Township Trustee Brent Laton has begun his third term as Chair of the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.  Mr. Laton was acclaimed to the position during the Inaugural Meeting of the Board on December 3, 2013.  Entering his twelfth year as a schoolContinue Reading

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CFN – Jim Brownell attended the South Stormont Township council meeting to present a report about his groups efforts at the Historical society and Charming Lost Villages tourism and educations site. Oddly enough our amicable chat turned nasty when Mr. Brownell became upset if I asked him if he’d seenContinue Reading

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    Cornwall Ontario -I find myself a generally cautious person, but all be it a positive person too. That’s how I felt one autumn morning walking up Alice St.   Birds are chirping and the sun shines. A number of squirrels are running around franticly trying to collect nuts andContinue Reading

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Cornwall Ontario – Councilor Maurice Dupelle is fuming after his motion was sabotaged in tonight’s agenda.    The councilor put forward the position that members of council should have more time and access to the agenda prior to a meeting if they were to be able to make some ofContinue Reading

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Cornwall Ontario – Former Cornwall Ontario Deputy Fire Chief Rob Hickley sat down one on one with CFN and talked about losing his appeal for funding for his Whistle Blowing case against the City of Cornwall & Mayor Bob Kilger over the hiring of the Mayor’s son as a CityContinue Reading

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Cornwall Ontario – Mark A MacDonald was a bit bewildered Saturday.   Busy with his projects including the RCAF Wing Mr. MacDonald was the subject of a Claude McIntosh column, but Mac’s Musing led to the public saying that Mr. MacDonald was not running for office in 2014 as IContinue Reading

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Cornwall Ontario –  We get a lot of email each and every day at CFN; about 800- 1000 emails each day.  Most get dumped promptly to the trash bin and then you sift through what’s left. Some of those are tips or pieces of information.   Many times they areContinue Reading

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CFN– This has not been a great month for former Cornwall Ontario Deputy Fire Chief Rob Hickley.   Mr. Hickle,y after claims of being forced into retirement has now discovered that he has lost his motion for the City to pay the costs of his Whistle Blowing claim against theContinue Reading

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Cornwall City Council seeks to evaluate the future of Cornwall Airport after some councillors expressed concern about the facility’s operating cost. The proposal to extend the runway to 5,000-feet to land a small jet plane depends on available federal money, except the federal people seem in no great hurry toContinue Reading

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CFN –  Today if you make the rounds in Cornwall media there is a respite from Rob Ford stories as South Stormont Deputy Mayor Tammy Hart has contacted area media and tried to get ahead of a report that was tabled to come out on the November 27th meeting ofContinue Reading

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CFN –  Hurricane Hart might be upgraded to Tornado after the Deputy Mayor of South Stormont reacted to the Integrity commissioner Robert Swayze’s report regarding her behavior towards staff and council. Ms Hart reacted by calling the Standard Freeholder’s Greg Peerenboom over to her farm and giving him an earfulContinue Reading

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Cornwall Ontario – It’s been an odd week.   Cold meds, Cornwall, a ton of introspection and thoughts about life during my 49th year.   A day when every single insecurity and neurosis I have exploded. It also included being so very grateful for my friends and family.  My critters,Continue Reading

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CFN – Journalism is a funny business.   At the heart of it is the act of informing the public of news in the community.   Deeper it’s about holding people accountable for the community.   It’s serving the community from helping find lost dogs to exposing scandals. February willContinue Reading

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Firstly, I have no objections to any moderate municipal tax increases but monies should be used to maintain the current services offered to ratepayers. If in fact the city of Cornwall for 2013 has new assessments totaling some 25 million dollars then these and future assessments that create tax dollarsContinue Reading

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Our taxes are too high and this is why!   The Police Board should only negotiate a one year contract and they should not be making agreements that extend beyond their mandate.   I urge Council at its next regular meeting to discuss the upcoming Police Contract and make sureContinue Reading