SOUTH DUNDAS — The Municipality of South Dundas is celebrating and shining a spotlight on the local business community with its Second Annual Awards of Excellence. Due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Should be standard practice, says Birket Foster Nelson Zandbergen Nation Valley News NORTH DUNDAS — Rural roads are routinely dug up for repair — yet, while the trenches are open, municipalities never think to throw…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News KEMPTVILLE — Closed down tight after University of Guelph pulled out four years ago, the Kemptville Campus Power & Equipment Building workshop is to get a new lease on…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News BRINSTON — A Quebec-based company which specializes in reducing the risk of costly, emotionally draining barn fires is making inroads into Ontario, including at five-barn Thurler Farms. Operated by…
Above, North Dundas Mayor Tony Fraser (fourth from left) and North Dundas Deputy Mayor and Fire Commissioner Al Armstrong (third from right) pose with township firefighters and Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation of Canada representatives….
No Homestead Organics reboot Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News BERWICK — Tom Manley has reinvented himself once again, this time as Executive Director of the Eastern Ontario Agri-Food Network, a non-profit dedicated to development…
CHESTERVILLE — A new ‘Amazon Hub’ locker — Jubilant — arrived yesterday at the Mike Dean’s Super Food Store location in Chesterville. The unit is set to enter service next week, says proprietor Gordon Dean,…
SOUTH DUNDAS — Shopping local has never been easier than with the newly launched Shop South Dundas website. Spearheaded by the South Dundas Economic Development department, the website encourages the community to support local businesses…
EASTERN ONTARIO — Hiring? Think inclusively! October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and the Ontario Disability Employment Network (ODEN) uses this month to highlight the importance of hiring people with disabilities and inclusively….
VANKLEEK HILL — A take-off on Beau’s popular farm-tractor-themed brew, Lug Tread 2.5% is a low-alcohol lagered ale that riffs on the award-winning recipe of the local craft beer maker’s flagship label. At only 2.5%…
Alexandria retirement home resident dies EASTERN ONTARIO — A second death in a congregant living environment was recorded yesterday — at The Palace Retirement Community in Alexandria — Eastern Ontario Medical Officer of Health Dr….
EASTERN ONTARIO — Make that a ‘modified’ modified Stage 2 (or better yet, a modified Stage 3): Eastern Ontario Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis says that, unlike other regions that have retreated back…
EASTERN ONTARIO — The Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) is closely watching local COVID-19 case numbers but says it won’t “at this time” replicate the latest restrictions announced by the provincial government for Ottawa, Toronto…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News WINCHESTER – Nothing can force parents into taking stock of their lives more than the death of a child. When cancer claimed son Robert, 26, second oldest of their…
FINCH — South Nation Conservation (SNC) hosts an online meeting for interested logging contractors later this month because, yes, tree-cutting comprises part of its sustainable forest management activity. Removing less desirable trees from the landscape…
