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This week’s headlines in The Leader include: Capacity study sole sourced to EVB Engineering; Bus deal to cost $250k more per year; Council discusses affordable housing land allocations; Canadian Horse statue fundraiser now underway; Cruise-In […]

JOHNSTOWN – School buses will be running next week. Eleventh hour negotiations between school transportation consortium Student Transportation of Eastern Ontario, and the Eastern Ontario Bus Operators Association resulted in a tentative agreement Monday afternoon […]

MORRISBURG – Just over a month ago an act of vandalism which defaced memorial benches dedicated to the memory of Leos Hannah Warren and Amber Venema had the community in an uproar. Hundreds of people […]

CORNWALL – The latest iteration of the SDG Counties Rural Education Committee now has members and expects to meet in September. SDG Counties council made the appointments at its August 28 council meeting. The seven-member […]

CORNWALL – In an effort to retain seasonal winter staff, and complete summer projects, SDG Counties council approved a plan to add eight full-time staff to the Transportation Department. The plan brought forth by Transportation […]

This week’s headlines in The Leader include: School bus shut down averted; Teen’s effort doesn’t go unrecognized; SDG to hire eight full-time staff; Gunfire sends one to hospital; SDG Rural Education Committee appointed; Zoning change […]

MORRISBURG – A lot has changed in the housing industry since 2018 including the plans for the continuation of the ongoing Dutch Meadows housing development at the west end of Morrisburg. When approved in 2018, […]

JOHNSTOWN – Federal funding towards a new grain drier for the Port of Johnstown was announced August 18. The funding, through the federal government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food’s Agricultural Clean Technology program, will see […]

JOHNSTOWN – Thousands of families across Eastern Ontario may be scrambling for another way to get their kids to school this fall. Student Transportation of Eastern Ontario issued an update on contract talks with school […]

MORRISBURG – A large-scale remediation project at the Universal Terminals port west of Morrisburg is set to conclude in 2024. Tomlinson Group of Companies, which bought the terminal and port in 2022, announced last week […]