CORNWALL — The St. Lawrence River Institute has a new boat. Christened Macromia, a staff contest settled the name after a genus of large dragonflies commonly known as ‘river cruisers’. Purchased with a $41,000 Ontario…
CORNWALL — The St. Lawrence River Institute’s interactive science workshops and OutsideIN online educational programming got a recent boost with a $2,000 sponsorship from Cornwall Electric. The River Institute’s environmental education programs encourage and motivate…
CORNWALL — Purple heroin, also known as “purple,” or “purp,” appears to be factor in an increased number of drug-related overdoses in and around the City of Cornwall, according to the Eastern Ontario Health Unit….
CORNWALL — The River Institute recently received a three-year grant totalling $75,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PromoScience program to support its Interactive Science Workshops and OutsideIN online educational programming…
Update: Heartwood Long-term Care Home in Cornwall never had outbreak as Ministry of Long-Term Care concedes that institution was mistakenly placed on provincial ‘resolved outbreaks’ list; see further below in article CORNWALL — Woodland Villa…
CORNWALL — The Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) says a Food Basics employee has tested positive for COVID-19 at the grocer’s Brookdale Avenue store in Cornwall. The EOHU is “actively working in cooperation with the…
CORNWALL — Tests conducted on three Glen Stor Dun Lodge residents have come back negative for COVID-19, the institution has announced in a news update today. Staff at the nursing home have been monitoring and…
Listen to the podcast here CORNWALL — Through Shopify, local creative technologist Kelly Bergeron very quickly launched a collective online gift-certificate retailing tool to help Cornwall businesses reach their customers during the COVID-19 crisis. The…
Above, Eastern Ontario Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis and Cornwall Mayor Bernadette Clement were joined by Public Health Agency of Canada Director General Rhonda Kropp and NAV Canada’s Senior Manager of Public Affairs…
CORNWALL — This city’s quarantine facility is set to welcome approximately 130 symptom-free Canadians under quarantine for possible exposure to the new coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. The arrivals were set to be…
CORNWALL — Cornwall’s NAV Centre is equipped with “isolated” quarantine facilities — complete with a self-contained ventilation system — and using the site to hold people potentially exposed to the coronavirus poses no risk to guests…
CORNWALL — The Canadians quarantined aboard that cruise ship in Japan are coming to Cornwall’s NAV Centre for a further two-week stay — a federal decision that has the local MP and local mayor both…
CORNWALL — Entrepreneurs in the United Counties of SDG and Cornwall will soon have access to a new collaboration space and business services hub. A planned combination of existing agencies and new services under one…
CORNWALL — This Seaway city has been named among a handful of Ontario sites where human traffickers forced Mexican slaves to work as cleaners. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, approximately 250 frontline and support unit members…
CORNWALL — The region’s newest training centre — the Ontario Emerging Jobs Institute (OEJI) — holds opening day activities this Monday, Jan. 14. “After months of planning, we are thrilled to be welcoming our students…
