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MORRISBURG – Years worth of community care and effort were wiped out Monday night in a slew of senseless acts of vandalism at the Morrisburg waterfront. The juvenile trees, planted about two years ago lining […]

CORNWALL – Investigators from the Cornwall Regional Task Force, an RCMP-led inter-agency task force, have broken up a human smuggling ring that centred in the Cornwall area. The RCMP announced that it had charged eight […]

BROCKVILLE – It took about 45 minutes to present the budget to Upper Canada District School board trustees and only 15 minutes to approve it. The hour-long process resulted in the UCDSB passing a $447 […]

TORONTO – Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry MPP Nolan Quinn received a promotion during last week’s cabinet shuffle by Premier Doug Ford. Quinn, who was first-elected member of provincial Parliament in June 2022, was named Associate Minister of […]

MORRISBURG – The Rev. Janet Evans is saying goodbye at the end of June, and entering the busy world of retirement. She shared some of her experiences and memories as she and her husband Michael […]

This week’s headlines in The Leader include: And the winner is … St. Mary-St. Cecilia; Evening of destruction; Re-invention of BIA imminent; A Place by the river; International human smuggling ring dismantled in Cornwall area; […]

BROCKVILLE – Upper Canada District School Board trustees will be presented with a relatively balanced budget for the next school year at their June 5 meeting The draft budget sees a 15.6 per cent increase […]

PRESCOTT – Seaway District High School students taking part in the annual Relay For Life event last Thursday (May 30) raised $17,584 for the Canadian Cancer Society. The day-long event (11 a.m. to 11 p.m.) […]

CORNWALL – A joint investigation by the Ontario Ministry of Finance resulted in the seizure of 8.6 million cigarette filter rods under the Tobacco Tax Act in Cornwall a month ago. The Ministry seized the […]

MORRISBURG – Work continues on the Morrisburg Canada Day committee’s plans for this year’s Canada Day celebrations in Earl Baker Park and the Morrisburg Waterfront Park. The annual celebration will start at 11 a.m. and […]