THREATS, BREACH Cornwall, ON – Silas Benedict, 56 of Cornwall was arrested on December 31st, 2014 and charged with threats to life and breach of probation for failing to keep the peace. It is alleged that on December 31st, 2014 the man threatened to shoot a 31-year-old man thatContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Some very ugly people got their way and used City Hall as a bully tool to destroy a family rink. Last night the Vincent family and some friends were essentially forced to take the boards down from their rink. As you can see in theContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Rookie City Councilor (and Liberal nomination hopeful Justin Towndale has spoken out regarding the Monaco rink status. He sent CFN the following communication. He is only the second councilor to publicly speak out regarding the rink that the city sent trucks and police to yesterday. PleaseContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Ugly politics have led to a city directed truck starting to tear down the Vincent family ice rink in Cornwall Ontario. Manager Bill De Witt who was present said it was on direct orders of Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy and CAO Norm Levac. Laura Vincent was teaching atContinue Reading
CFN represents an interesting cross roads in journalism. Is news different than entertainment? Has the news become too corporate? Are media outlets too afraid to report news for fear of losing clients? Can you trust anything you read if jaundiced by that? Does the public care about important issues? HowContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Freezing rain led to trees falling on wires and a power outage in Cornwall early this morning. Power was off for as long as one hour as some residents took to social media asking if this was another Ice Storm. The weather is playing havoc as rainContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Here is your Walsh Pressure Cleaning Weather Update for Sunday January 4th at 7:45 AM EST. Cornwall and the area are digging out of our largest snow fall this winter. Mixed in coverage of freezing rain has made roads and walkways treacherous. Sunday’s forecast calls for moreContinue Reading
CFN – The River Kings powerplay came alive on Saturday night at the Civic Complex. Cornwall scored four times with the man advantage to power past Thetford-Mines 6-2 in front of 1,158 fans. The River Kings have now won three LNAH contests in a row – and 4-of-5. Curtis TidballContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – 2010 Cornwall City Council contender Mr. Pat Finnerty passed away December 31, 2014 comfortably at home at the age of 79. Mr. Finnerty made some striking points in his own manner during the election pointing out that the community needed “new blood” to lead. Big MoneyContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – It may have been a Green Christmas, but 2015 is off to a white start! Approximately 15 cm of the white stuff is expected to fall in the Cornwall area, most on Saturday. Drivers should be vigilant and try and stay off the roads for theContinue Reading
CFN – In 1927, a young man who was blind , Morris Frank, read a story about dogs being trained as guide dogs for blinded WW1 veterans. . According to the Seeing eye Organization website, he wrote to the author of the article asking for help because he wasContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – 2014 was a weird mixed bag of a year. Here on CFN we increased our market share while growing our over all numbers, an interesting achievement. Big changes in our city thanks to CFN viewers forcing out one of the most corrupt Mayor’s in Ontario history alongContinue Reading
COMPUTER REPAIR SCAM ALERT Cornwall, ON- The Cornwall Community Police Service would like to inform the residents of our Community of a computer repair scam. It is reported that the culprit(s) contact the victim by telephone and suggest that the home computer has a virus. The culprit(s) explainsContinue Reading
CFN – Canadiens Hall of Famer Steve Shutt commented about the Vincent’s hockey rink when reached out to over the holidays. Shutt, who scored a long standing record 60 goals as a Left Winger for the Habs in 1977 grew up playing on his own family rink in Toronto. HeContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – River Kings fans are mourning the loss of fave Chris Cloutier who was shipped out to Laval of the LNAH earlier today. Cloutier had 77 penalty minutes and zero points for the River Kings this season. “Clouts” last fight for the Kings Will be updating asContinue Reading
BREAK AND ENTER, BREACHES Cornwall, ON – Steven Coleman, 31 of Cornwall was arrested on December 25th, 2014 and charged with break and enter, breach of two probation orders and two undertakings for failing to keep the peace. It is alleged that on December 25th, 2014 the man forcedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Sometimes you have to out a troll clearly. On the left is one Nicholas MacNaughton. Mr. MacNaughton is a special kind of troll. His hatred has lasted several years now and his energy in attacking CFN and myself seem to be his occupation. It probably startedContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – After our story about the dirtiest restaurants in Cornwall based on the EOHU inspections for 2014 we decided to publish the list of the cleanest, ie, least amount of citations during the year. This isn’t an all encompassing list. We randomly surveyed restaurants on the list provided byContinue Reading