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• Cornwall reallocates $390K to fund Race Street water main replacement

  15-07-2026 23:38 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  With the reconstruction of Cornwall’s Race Street currently underway, it became evident to the city the water main on the street also needed replacement.Cornwall’s manager of infrastructure Emma Vanier told council on Monday that since construction started, the water main has failed at multiple locations outside of the limits of active excavation. This suggests that disturbances of surrounding soil alone is enough to trigger these breaks, which likely means the pipe’s structur
  
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• 2026 Children's Treatment Centre of Cornwall and Area Bike-a-Thon raises $150K

  15-07-2026 22:25 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  The Children’s Treatment Centre (CTC) Bike-a-Thon has wrapped up for another year, raising $150,000This year, the annual keystone fundraising event that supports the operations and services at the CTC raised a total of $150,800, including a $10,000 donation from event sponsor BMO. A luncheon was held at the Best Western Parkway Inn and Conference Centre on Wednesday to acknowledge the hard work of everyone involved in making the event a successApproximately 88 per cent of the total came f
  
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• South Stormont purchases St. Lawrence Parks Commission lands for $1.6 million

  15-07-2026 21:56 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  LONG SAULT — A historic announcement was made Wednesday along the banks of the St. Lawrence River as the St. Lawrence Parks Commission (SLPC) shared that it has divested five parcels of land to the Township of South Stormont.Land negotiations have been ongoing for years, guests heard at Lakeview Park — often referred to as Avonmore Beach, as the township has been working to gain local control of approximately 260 acres of land between Ingleside and the Lakeview Heights area along Co
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with threats, harassment, breach

  15-07-2026 20:46 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  A 32-year-old man is facing three charges after police responded to an intimate-partner violence complaint.Police alleged the man harassed his ex-spouse by repeatedly texting the woman on Sunday, and also threatened to kill the woman. He was located and taken into police custody on Tuesday.The man was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm; criminal harassment — repeatedly communicate; and, breach of probation for failing to keep the peace.He was held in police custod
  
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• South Dundas joins opposition to Alto

  15-07-2026 20:32 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  MORRISBURG — South Dundas is the latest to join a chorus of eastern Ontario municipalities to formally oppose the Alto high-speed rail project in its current form.Council passed a formal resolution at its July 8 meeting .The resolution challenged that there was only one stop in the 50,000-square-kilometre region represented by the Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus, and that there was significant impact on rural communities, agricultural land, trails, and environmentally sensitive area
  
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• Char-Lan Recreation Centre renovations delayed

  15-07-2026 19:58 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  WILLIAMSTOWN — The Char-Lan Recreation Centre in Williamstown will require an additional $260,000 in repairs after renovations exposed rust and corrosion in the roof purlins.The purlins form the horizontal structure that runs perpendicular to the trusses, supporting the roof and helping to balance the weight of the roof materials and snow onto the building frame. The original purlins had not been treated or painted to protect them and, at some point, water permeated them, causing extensiv
  
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• South Glengarry abandons establishing heritage conservation district in South Lancaster

  15-07-2026 19:14 via standard-freeholder.com
  
  WILLIAMSTOWN — South Glengarry Township set aside a request to designate an area in South Lancaster as a heritage district at council’s June 22 meeting.With fewer than half of the homeowners supporting the district designation, heritage designation would be left up to individual property owners.Homeowners were concerned that new developments, including an apartment complex proposed for Lancaster, would not reflect the character of the homes in the historical area. Study could cost b
  
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