Month: December 2024

This week’s headlines in The Leader include: Draft budget proposes nearly 12 per cent tax increase; Morrisburg celebrates the season in style; SDG settles on 4.89 per cent tax increase; Water rate increase approved for […]

MORRISBURG – Every municipal council has its own defining project, and it became apparent at the November 27 committee of the whole council meeting that infrastructure improvements at the Morrisburg and Iroquois Plazas could be […]

MORRISBURG: “We care about our community and about those things which make life better in our area,” said Scott Corden, on the executive of 100 Men and the MC for the Wednesday, November 27 gathering […]

CORNWALL – A last minute adjustment to the 2025 draft SDG Counties budget saw two per cent cut to the proposed tax increase due to last week’s OPP invoice reduction. Still, SDG Counties Council met […]

MORRISBURG – A new soy bean processing project is planning to begin production in 2026, with work already underway on the plant on Allison Avenue. Alinova Canada, a joint venture between DJHII and Maursan Ai, […]

MORRISBURG – Grounded for over a week, the Algoma Central ship – Tim S. Dool – remains lodged on a shoal near Crysler Marina, east of Morrisburg. The nearly 60 year old grain ship hit […]

TORONTO – Increases in service calls and wages has caused the leaders of several rural municipalities in Ontario to experience sticker shock when civic leaders received the latest OPP billiing estimates for 2025. Many municipalities, […]