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• Stormont Dundas Glengarry council approves 2026 budget bylaws

  03-02-2026 23:44 via standard-freeholder.com
  SDG council passed the bylaws to set tax rates and ratios at its regular meeting on Monday, which are the final steps in approving the 2026 budget. Following budget meetings in December 2025, council approved a budget that would spend $78.2 million providing municipal services. The gross total is a decrease over expenditures in 2025, which were expected to total $87 million. Taxpayers in SDG will provide $65,499,846 of the total budget, an increase of $3.7 million, or 5.99 per cent compared
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with hate-motivated threats, harassment

  03-02-2026 23:14 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 19-year-old man from Cornwall is facing four charges in what police are describing as a hate-motivated investigation. A hate-crime detective began an investigation into social-media posts on Dec. 18. From that work, police alleged the man made threatening statements, and engaged in threatening behaviour, toward people in Jewish and Black communities between Nov. 3 and Dec. 15. The officer alleged the man’s conduct met the threshold for a hate crime because it was motivated by bias, preju
  
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• Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry council decides to monitor roundabout, defers action

  03-02-2026 19:23 via standard-freeholder.com
  Calls from Long Sault residents to raise a storm drain won’t be answered soon, according to SDG’s transportation department. A petition was presented to SDG council on Monday, from residents of Moulinette Island. Around 70 residents of the island neighbourhood signed the petition flagging a depressed storm drain as a potential road hazard. After reviewing the petition and hearing from transportation, SDG council agreed to have staff monitor the storm drain and advise council if furth
  
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• Opposition to proposals for 'unsuitable' businesses in South Glengarry

  03-02-2026 18:23 via standard-freeholder.com
  WILLIAMSTOWN — Residents and business owners attended the Jan. 12 South Glengarry council meeting to express their opposition and concern for two development plans in the Lancaster area. The first is at 5961 County Road 34, just north of the Village of Lancaster, where a transportation terminal and motor-vehicle repair garage has been proposed by a developer. This development requires an SDG official plan amendment to permit the transportation facility for trucks and farm equipment on agri
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with assaulting woman, breaches

  03-02-2026 17:11 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 43-year-old man from Cornwall is facing six charges following a police response to an intimate-partner violence call on Monday. Police alleged the man breached his conditions when he assaulted his girlfriend. The man was charged with domestic assault; three counts of breaching release orders for leaving his residence and being in contact with his girlfriend; and, two counts of breach of probation for failing to keep the peace. He was held in police custody pending a bail hearing in Cornwall co
  
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