‘Our grocery store is not the right place for this debate’ CHESTERVILLE — Grocery store employees have been on the front line of the pandemic since COVID-19 began. Now they find themselves on the front…
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Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News SPENCERVILLE — There’s a new business open to the public on this village’s main street proudly announcing with a colourful hand-crafted sign that MacKintosh Ciderhouse, at least for the…
-Sponsored- CLAYTON — A little more than a year after breaking ground, Storm Internet Services (Storm) has begun connecting fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) customers in this Eastern Ontario village, after completing the main subterranean lines of a…
Above, Vivian and Michel Theoret and their daughter, Barbara — representing two thirds of the shops inside the Moose Creek Mall. MOOSE CREEK — It may be one of the smallest indoor shopping malls in…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News BERWICK — It took close to a year, but GreenSide Organics finally obtained certification Tuesday, clearing the way to launch operations beginning in July. The other key piece permitting…
WINCHESTER — In another sign of these COVID-19 times, the lineup outside the Dawley Drive ServiceOntario Centre snaked across the front of the building and into the west end of the parking lot yesterday. Many…
IROQUOIS — An employee has tested positive for COVID-19 at Ross Video’s Iroquois plant, prompting the multi-million-dollar tech firm to close the operation until this Friday. “Yes, unfortunately, it’s true,” company President and CEO David…
OTTAWA — Rideau Carleton Raceway says its Standardbred racing season will be watched exclusively via simulcast as seats at the track remain empty amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ontario Horse Racing Industry has been gearing…
EASTERN ONTARIO — The allure of a legal haircut beckons on the other side of the provincial border, in Quebec, where personal grooming services outside Montreal have been permitted to open their doors again as…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT — Two months after King’s Lock Craft Distillery shifted gears and began turning out hand sanitizer ahead of spirits, the sideline is still going strong and the owners…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News EDWARDS — What happens when an accountant and a librarian — not always seen as the most exciting of professions — put their heads together to come up with…
Kelsey Smith Nation Valley News WINCHESTER SPRINGS — A Gloucester Kindergarten class was surprised to see some cute furry, and feathery animals on their screens during their weekly web chat last Friday. Ruth Vanderlaan owner…
Above, Upper Canada Cider Company founder Matthew Cameron (left) and co-worker Zach Pyke promote the firm’s “Three County Cider” — made from apples sourced in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry — at ‘Tastefest’ in Moose Creek…
Above, Brian Vandenberg poses at Desormeaux Meats, a local Eastern Ontario abattoir recently recovered from a fire and reopened for business just as large industrial meat packing plants — hard-hit by COVID-19 outbreaks — are…
WINCHESTER — Earlier this week the Ontario Government and Health Authorities have announced the opening of essential retail hardware and garden centre outlets as of Saturday May 9. Although stores will be opened to the…
