Year: 2025

LONG SAULT – South Stormont Township’s draft 2026 budget with a 5.69 per cent tax increase was approved by council at their December 17 meeting. The increase translates to an additional $34.09 in property tax […]

CORNWALL – By June 2026, the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry, will have a new chief administrative officer. SDG CAO Maureen Adams announced she will be retiring in May 2026. Adams took over […]

CORNWALL – Some of the extraordinary costs for fighting last fall’s forest fire at the Alvin Runnalls Forest in North Dundas are being covered by SDG Counties. The forest, the only Counties-owned forest property located […]

EASTERN ONTARO – Municipalities, agricultural organizations, and now conservation authorities themselves are calling for the provincial government to rethink reforms to Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities. Locally, all six municipal councils, and SDG Counties council have […]

OTTAWA – The longest postal strike in the history of the modern Canadian postal service may soon be over as Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached a tentative labour agreement. […]

This week’s headlines include: Joy unto you; Christmas Exchange addresses community needs; South Stormont passes Grinch Deterrence Bylaw; Evolution of South Dundas Ec. Dev. role; South Stormont approves budget with 5.69 per cent increase; Help […]

LONG SAULT – Protecting all the Whos living in Whoville and everyone across South Stormont, municipal council has passed a bylaw to deter the Grinch this Christmas. The bylaw closed out the December 17 council […]

MORRISBURG – Storefront parking will become a thing of the past with the redevelopment of the Morrisburg Plaza slated to take place in 2026. Greer Galloway, the consultants hired to complete the design were at […]