Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT — Town council has decided on a new location of the local museum displaced by the recent sale of the 200-year-old Forwarders Building. It’s an empty storefront at…
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Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News JOHNSTOWN — Construction will begin shortly on a $75 million expansion to GreenField Global’s ethanol plant here, primarily to capitalize on the growing demand for high-grade corn-based alcohol for…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT — When local musician, Happy Crapper, and instrument repairer George Tierney walked onto the amphitheatre stage here Saturday he had quite a story to tell and an original…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT – In the absence of a municipal museum, a company which is hand-and-glove with local business history has stepped up to fill part of the gap. Located in…
PRESCOTT — A Victor Court resident faces a charge of assault after spraying a neighbour with a water hose. The Sept. 19 incident involved an “ongoing neighbour dispute,” according to Grenville County OPP, whose officers…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News SPENCERVILLE — It’s fair time! Make that virtual fair time… at least in Spencerville! With other farm fairs falling to COVID-19 all around it, the Spencerville Agricultural Society decided…
Above, a new home for Upper Canada FolkFest. Van Dusen photo, Nation Valley News Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT — In an era when festivals, fairs and other events are pulling the plug…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT — One of the town’s oldest buildings, a designated historic property and reminder of its early days as a bustling St. Lawrence River forwarding centre, has been declared…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News PRESCOTT – Calling it the “biggest development to hit King Street in many decades”, Mayor Brett Todd officially broke ground Friday on a $4-million downtown apartment complex, an integral…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News MAITLAND — Toronto-based electrical engineer Philip Ling describes his commitment to one of Eastern Ontario’s oldest farmsteads as ‘’leading while remembering.’’ Over the past three years, Ling has spent…
