Obituaries
Barbara Wells
A resident of the Park Drive Villa in Williamsburg for the past 8.5 years, Barbara Wells passed away at the Cornwall Hospice on Saturday, October 8, 2016, following a brief battle with cancer. She was […]
Year: 2016
Opinion
Editorial: Take a stand now!
Was the Upper Canada District School Board being facetious when it named its closure plan Building for the Future? The board’s senior staff (its superintendents) are choosing to close Seaway District High School and shuffle […]
News
A true original: Emily Millard in concert
Even in a crowded musical world, Emily Millard stands out. A poet, a song writer, a gifted singer and performer, she has been lighting up stages and concert halls in Canada and Europe. This […]
News
UCDSB trustees defeat motion to rescind
Upper Canada District School BoardTrustees defeated a motion at their regular school board meeting Wednesday night that would have rescinded an earlier decision to launch the Pupil Accommodation Review. The process was initially approved after […]
News
Motion to rescind school closure plan will be tabled tonight
Upper Canada District School Board trustee John McAllister, trustee for Ward 4, has placed a request to rescind the UCDSB Building for the Future Accommodation Review report at the October 12th school board meeting (tonight). […]
Entertainment
St. Lawrence Acoustic Stage kicks off new season with The Small Glories.
Some might see JD Edwards and Cara Luft as a bit of an unlikely couple where musical collaboration is concerned. She is a founding member of the renowned trio Wailin’ Jennys, and comes from […]
Opinion
Gibberish: One of the lucky ones…
I see myself as one of the lucky ones. I spent my first seven grades in a one room school planted in an acre of long grass about two miles away, along a bumpy gravel […]
Sports
Girls basketball beat R-O 51-17
The Seaway District High School junior girls basketball team visited local rivals Rothwell-Osnabruck on September 28th, defeating the Lancers 51-17. The Spartans led the Lancers at the end of the first quarter 14-4 including […]
News
SDHS parent council meeting sees record high attendance following news of potential closure
Attendance records were broken last week at Seaway District High School’s first parent council meeting of the 2016/2017 school year. Roughly 70 people attended the two-hour long Tuesday, September 27 meeting, where almost one-third of […]
Obituaries
Wilma Lorraine Johnston
The youngest of seven children, Wilma Lorraine Johnston was born in 1920, and was raised in the village of Bronte, Ontario. Affectionately called “Duck” by her sisters, she swam in the creek when she wanted […]