Wert and family test negative but have been in self-quarantine after farm employee tests positive BERWICK — With Mayor Jim Wert at home in self-admitted quarantine, members of North Stormont Council conducted Tuesday night’s regular…
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A Sisters for Life Relay Team initiative BERWICK — Maureen Robertson (left) of the North Stormont-area Sisters for Life Relay Team presents equal cheques of $16,494 to Canadian Cancer Society Ontario Director Doug Kane (above)…
NORTH STORMONT — Organizers of the Touch of Christmas Porch Tour announced this week on their Facebook page that they’ve collected $7,209.80 in donations from this year’s event. Among the generous donors were GFL Environmental,…
FINCH — The village marked another Christmas Parade of Lights this evening, though pandemic restrictions kept spectators inside their cars parked along the parade route. Others watched from their own front steps and driveways. Watch…
FINCH — Finch Recreation’s Christmas Parade of Lights returns Saturday night, Dec. 12, with a covid-compliant twist: Spectators have to watch the parade from their parked vehicles or their own properties. “We did receive some…
BERWICK — In the wake of a young man’s suicide in Avonmore, North Stormont Councillor Randy Douglas pressed for dialogue around mental health and social media at the council table last night, Dec. 8. The…
NORTH STORMONT — With normal Christmas kiboshed, North Stormont has shifted gears on its traditional house tour. Rather than the usual convivial occasion that draws many dozens of visitors into local homes for a look-see…
FINCH — This week would have seen the annual visit by the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train in Finch. But in line with everything else during this pandemic year, it’s off the rails in 2020. CP…
Above, watch the full proceedings of the Sisters for Life Gala 2.0. FINCH — In the end, COVID-19 couldn’t stop the North Stormont-area Sisters for Life relay team from generating their biggest tally to date…
SDG — When Insp. Mike Mulhearn put his first OPP uniform on, in 1987, he already had one person in his corner. “From day one I was very fortunate to have a coach officer, his name was…
NORTH DUNDAS — The SD&G OPP and members of the ‘ROPE’ unit — Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement — have located and arrested two North Dundas residents who were wanted in connection with several offences. The…
AVONMORE — “A long road to recovery” is ahead of an engaged couple seriously hurt this week when a car collided with their horse-drawn buggy, according to a gofundme campaign set up for Carmen Regnier…
NORTH STORMONT — Two adult passengers in a horse-drawn buggy were taken to hospital with serious non-life threatening injuries after being struck by a westbound vehicle on Fairview Drive in Avonmore late yesterday afternoon, a…
Above, Olivia Wright of Brinston donated her watercolour painting of a redheaded woodpecker to help SNC raise funds for tree planting. Courtesy photo FINCH — South Nation Conservation’s (SNC) first ever Art for Trees online…
SD&G — The instant consequences of allegedly zipping along at 50 km/h above the speed limit took several motorists out of their driver’s seats and off the roads of SD&G in the lead-up to November…
