SOUTH STORMONT — County Rd. 2 traffic will flow through the first of three planned roundabouts next year, starting in Iroquois. Two additional locations in Long Sault are also envisioned in a design plan approved by…
STORMONT — County Rd. 12 won’t be known as the British Home Child Roadway. Instead, the Council of the United Counties of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry (SDG) is looking into alternative means of recognizing those…
Nelson Zandbergen Nation Valley News BRINSTON — The dog days of summer got off to a very rough start for three kittens rescued from a South Dundas dump in the nick of time. Two days…
RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS — Johnstown’s displaced fish have a new home downriver. In dollars, the construction of the Port of Johnstown’s new marine terminal cost about $35-million. But that industrial project also exacted an environmental cost…
FINCH — A helicopter was busily spraying corn fields west of Finch on Sun., July 24. Not to be confused with sight-seeing choppers that circled over nearby Chesterville during Farmer John’s annual summer bash on Saturday…
Nelson Zandbergen Nation Valley News DIXONS CORNERS — From their new home in Cornwall, the Bya family is adjusting well to life in Canada after nine years in Malaysia as unwanted refugees. The surge of almost…
SDG and PR — As the mercury soars, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) is advising residents of the five counties and City of Cornwall to take precautions through the heat wave. The agency’s move follows…
WINCHESTER — Summer’s the season of county Holstein club twilight meetings, annual social occasions drawing hundreds of dairy farmers and their friends to a hosting club member’s farmstead for an evening barbecue and informal barn tours….
CHESTERVILLE — In a July heatwave, Santa’s return may feel light years away, but for planning purposes, very little time is left to prevent downtown Chesterville from the embarrassment of another Christmas with less than…
CHESTERVILLE — The winter wheat harvest is under way at Vanden Bosch Farms. Betty Vanden Bosch supplied this image of the farm’s combine at work in the cereal crop on July 19. Her grandson, Sawyer, is…
MORRISBURG — The Municipality of South Dundas has filled its vacant fire chief position with a new hire and a tweaked job title. Cameron Morehouse becomes South Dundas’s Director of Fire & Emergency Services on…
WINCHESTER — From out of flames, Annette Angus forged a premier North Dundas destination. “It started out as a little hobby. Now it’s a good business,” says a smiling Angus, wearing her signature broad-brimmed hat…
Nelson Zandbergen Nation Valley News AVONMORE — The Avonmore Fair came to a colourful conclusion late Sunday afternoon, with the Canadian Cowgirls Precision Drill Team riding out of the ring to strains of “Happy Trails.”…
