Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News KEMPTVILLE — Two months into it and a retired OPP sergeant is swamped making fundraising decorative buoys in support of victims of the Nova Scotia massacre in April. Craig…
Read MoreWatch the Aug. 9, 2020, procession (above). John Cinnamon leads the annual tractor parade through Winchester this afternoon (Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020), including a detour through the Dundas Manor Parking lot. The parade went ahead,…
See the complete competition, above. WINCHESTER — The display of bovine athleticism for good causes got underway Aug. 8. The wooden bovines and their intrepid riders entered the gates 3rd annual Great Canadian Cow Race put…
WINCHESTER — James Pitruniak has a long connection with Winchester District Memorial Hospital (WDMH). And now he is taking it one step further as the new Chair of the WDMH Board of Directors. James was…
Nelson Zandbergen Nation Valley News EASTERN ONTARIO — False positives for COVID-19 are not included in Ontario’s official case count, according to the office of the province’s top doctor, and those who are told they…
CORNWALL — Homes in Cornwall and the United Counties of SDG will receive copies of ‘staycation’ guides to help round out their 2020 holiday plans enjoying some of the amenities in and around the region. …
Above, Cheryl Cooper and husband Hugh McEwen have become first on the wall with a barn quilt at their Heather Crest Farm, part of a new project coordinated by Osgoode Township Museum, which to date…
WINCHESTER — Six charities are in the running during this Saturday’s Great Canadian Cow Race — set for broadcast on Nation Valley News at 3 p.m., Aug. 8. Reconfigured as a live-streamed, socially-distanced event in…
HANESVILLE — Fire destroyed a vacant house under construction in this South Dundas community last night. Surrounding neighbours called 9-1-1 after noticing the fire at the chipboard-clad structure between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m. A neighbour…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News VANKLEEK HILL — A third tractor parade has been announced for Eastern Ontario this month, this time as a partial replacement for the annual Vankleek Hill Fair crushed like…
A Comics Column by Patrick R. Burger Comics are the very real inheritors of the pulp fiction legacy, and the first appearance of the original Green Lantern in 1940, four years after pulp fiction master…
Around the Nation A column by Tom Van Dusen As a veteran agriculture and rural life reporter, I don’t know how I missed the barn quilt phenomenon bordering on cult. Imported from Ohio, it took…
ROCKLAND — Russell County OPP, under direction of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), is seeking potential video from the public in relation to a homicide investigation. OPP were called to a residence on Lemay…
ONTARIO — Three days after its launch, over 100,000 people have taken up the Ontario government’s invitation to download that new COVID-19 tracing app on their mobile devices. COVID Alert anonymously informs users if they’ve been…
INGLESIDE — The House of Lazarus (HOL) is set to open a new thrift store and food cupboard in Ingleside. The new satellite site will open on Thursday, Aug. 6, from noon to 8 p.m. at…
