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• Aging Well: The Senior Health & Safety Fair returns to Benson Centre

  24-06-2026 22:28 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  Over 50 exhibitors were present during the Aging Well: The Senior Health & Safety Fair at the Benson Centre in Cornwall on Wednesday, with the event striving to offer something to pique everyone’s interest.Hosted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., hundreds had already gathered inside minutes into the event, with some people even showing up early, indicating a clear appetite for community connection and learning about new opportunities.Project coordinator with the Social Development Council SDGCA
  
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• Stormont Dundas Glengarry adopts framework for responsible use of AI use

  24-06-2026 21:14 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has seeped into many workforce sectors, including municipal government.Last week, the United Counties of SDG council endorsed that the Eastern Ontario IT Collaborative’s (EOITC) Responsible AI Use Framework be used to guide the adoption of AI and directed staff to form a cross-functional AI governance team to develop an AI usage standard.“Staff are already using AI in their day-to-day work, reflecting a broader trend of natural adoption. While
  
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• Riverdale bike bus rides to school before summer break in Cornwall

  24-06-2026 20:46 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  About 55 Cornwall students rode their bikes to school together one last time on Wednesday as part of the Riverdale bike bus group ahead of the summer break.The local bike bus initiative began to take shape in May with parents and their kids in the west-end neighbourhood.“We started with about 24 students on the first day in May and (Wednesday) was our maximum,” said parent Matt Buxton, who is hoping to continue organizing the initiative with other parents in the fall when classes re
  
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• North Dundas won't cut development charges, or apply to federal-provincial program

  24-06-2026 19:45 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  WINCHESTER — North Dundas Township is not applying for the new federal-provincial program to reduce development charges.Council supported a staff recommendation at council June 17 to not apply for the program.“Applying for this funding does not guarantee eligibility,” chief administrative officer Meena Mullur told council. “We would be committing to lower development charge revenues going forward.”The Ontario-Canada Development Charge Reduction Program was launched
  
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• Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario trustees approve 2026-27 budget

  24-06-2026 18:17 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  KEMPTVILLE — Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario (CDSBEO) trustees approved a balanced budget for the 2026-27 school year.The board approved the balanced budget at its June 16 meeting . The budget includes $246.8 million in spending and a matching amount of revenue.Capital spending for 2026-27 accounts for $16.8 million of the budget. No details were released of what projects or schools would be covered by the capital budget spending for the upcoming school year.CDSBEO offic
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with assaulting loss-prevention officer

  24-06-2026 17:37 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  A 64-year-old man from Ingleside is facing a charge after police responded to a Ninth Street East business on Tuesday.Police alleged the man assaulted a loss-prevention officer at the business.The man was charged with assault a peace officer.He was released from police custody to appear in Cornwall court on July 28. Prohibited driver, breach A 35-year-old man from Cornwall is facing two charges after police responded to the Cornwall port of entry on Tuesday.Officers alleged the man was operatin
  
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