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Month: August 2025

News

Additional fees concern plaza business owners

August 21, 2025 R. Comfort – Leader staff

SOUTH DUNDAS – While the Municipality of South Dundas wants to solicit feedback from its plaza business owners through a series of smaller round-table discussions, the Iroquois and District Business Group is asking instead for […]

News

String of collisions snarl Highway 401 traffic last week

August 21, 2025 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

MORRISBURG – Travelling between Iroquois and Morrisburg was busier than usual August 15 as three collisions on Highway 401 in less than 24-hours snarled detour traffic between the two villages. The most serious of the […]

News

Leadership change at Community Food Share

August 21, 2025 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

WINCHESTER – The area’s largest food bank has a new Director of Operations. Community Food Share, which operates in Dundas and Stormont counties, announced Lynsay Rainey as the organization’s new director. Rainey replaces outgoing Team […]

News

West Nile virus detected in EOHU region

August 21, 2025 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

CORNWALL – The Eastern Ontario Health Unit has detected the West Nile virus in the mosquito population in the region. “This finding shows that West Nile virus remains a concern in our area as long […]

News

Province increases housing infrastructure fund by $1.6B

August 21, 2025 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

OTTAWA – The Ontario government will add $1.6 billion in funding to an existing municipal housing program this year. Premier Doug Ford made the announcement at the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in […]

Opinion

Editorial – Road work a wrong turn for council

August 21, 2025 Editor

South Dundas has an extensive network of over 300 kilometres of roads, plus associated infrastructure like bridges, culverts, and guardrails, with road infrastructure being the largest budget item each year. Maintaining, repairing, and reconstructing those […]

News

Man arrested for train surfing

August 21, 2025 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

ALEXANDRIA – In an alleged crime straight out of the 1930s, a 23-year-old Mississauga man was arrested August 13 for riding the rails – specifically train surfing a Montreal-bound passenger train. Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry […]

Sports

Shamrocks win adult soccer season

August 21, 2025 Editor

IROQUOIS – South Dundas United concluded its Adult Summer League with its championship and consolation finals on August 14 at the South Dundas Soccer Fields in Iroquois. The season began in early June. In the […]

News

This week’s headlines in The Leader – August 20, 2025

August 20, 2025 Editor

This week’s headlines in The Leader include: Additional fees concern plaza business owners; String of collisions snarl Highway 401 traffic; Environmental committee in the works; Bath Road, Iroquois prioritized for paving; South Dundas Youth recognition […]

News

Bones found not human remains

August 14, 2025 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

SOUTH DUNDAS – An investigation into a report of bones found in a pond along County Road 18 near Archer and Beckstead Roads revealed they were not human remains. At around 7 p.m. August 10, […]

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