News

This week’s headlines in The Leader include: Residential land rezoning approved; The future (of ice resurfacing) is electric; Mayor Broad appointed to RSL; First step to modernizing the Iroquois Civic Centre; It’s Apple Festival time; […]

MORRISBURG – Using funds previously set aside to investigate expanding South Dundas water services into North Dundas, South Dundas is now looking in a new direction. Instead of investigating a northward expansion, South Dundas council […]

BROCKVILLE – Last week’s agreement between school bus operators and the school transportation consortium will cost the two school boards an additional $250,000 per year over the four year term of the contract. On August […]

MORRISBURG – A $310,000 fundraising campaign that will bring a life-size statue of Canada’s National Horse, the Canadian, to the Upper Canada Village entrance kicked off September 1, in advance of Horse Lovers Weekend. The […]

IROQUOIS – An unplanned repair to a major culvert on County Road 2 near Iroquois, led to the discovery of a potentially dangerous issue – a sinkhole. SDG Counties crews replaced a culvert near the […]

TORONTO – Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark resigned from cabinet Monday morning (September 4.) Clark, who has served as Minister in that portfolio since June 2018, has been under fire after […]

MORRISBURG – Bill Ewing likes to help people. For 20 years, he has owned Bill’s Towing & Recovery, getting people out of difficult situations and keeping them safe. “We need to support each other,” he […]

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 […]