CORNWALL — The mayor of Cornwall is headed to Parliament Hill. Bernadette Clement has been selected by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to serve in the Senate, where she will represent the province of Ontario. Mayor…
CORNWALL — Walmart Canada says no offence was intended yesterday when two employees at its Cornwall, Ontario, store staged a hair-colouring charitable fundraiser that inadvertently highlighted public resentment over unequally applied pandemic restrictions, especially the…
CORNWALL — Cornwall has a new incoming police chief. With over 26 years on the Cornwall Police Service (CPS), Shawna Spowart will be the first woman to serve as its chief when she assumes the…
Natascha Wood Nation Valley News CORNWALL — Every year, hundreds of young hopefuls from across Canada apply to the House of Commons Page program looking to start their careers off on a highpoint. It’s a…
SOUTH STORMONT — Three people have been charged after a drug bust in Long Sault and Cornwall yesterday. Officers seized a quantity of suspected fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as a conducted energy weapon…
CORNWALL — The Cornwall Police Service and the Eastern Ontario Health Unit have issued warnings about a recent increase in overdoses and deaths in and around the City of Cornwall. They report that the overdoses…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News CORNWALL — Like so many other agencies and other organizations, the St. Lawrence River Institute went online this week to present its 27th annual environmental symposium, normally a well-attended…
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…