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• Cornwall Sears closing its doors - Standard Freeholder

  23-06-2017 02:59
  
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  The Sears Outlet in Cornwall is one of 59 stores being closed across the country after the company filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday. Alan S. Hale/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. Tweet ...
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• Cornwall Chief of Police Shawna Spowart announces retirement

  15-01-2026 20:22 via standard-freeholder.com
  After working for nearly 31 years with the Cornwall Police Service, with five of those as chief of police, Shawna Spowart announced her retirement on Thursday. Fighting away tears, Spowart spoke about how she remains deeply proud of the work of the service, and how it has been the greatest honour of her professional life to serve the organization and the community. She was sworn into the role of chief of police in October 2021 after serving as deputy chief of police since November 2018. “T
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with sexually assaulting, harassing woman

  15-01-2026 20:00 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 23-year-old man from Glen Robertson is facing two charges from a police investigation that began on Jan. 9. Police alleged the man sexually assaulted a woman he knows on Dec. 15, and then repeatedly communicated with the woman. A warrant was issued for the man’s arrest. He was taken into custody at police headquarters on Wednesday. The man was charged with sexual assault, and criminal harassment — repeatedly communicate. He was held in police custody pending a bail hearing in Cornw
  
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• Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry CAO set to retire in May

  15-01-2026 18:08 via standard-freeholder.com
  The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry will soon have a new chief administrative officer, as Maureen Adams will retire this spring. SDG announced in December that it was actively recruiting a CAO, given Adams’ pending departure at the end of May. Adams has served as SDG’s CAO since January 2023. With almost two decades of leadership experience in municipal politics, Adams has been a central figure behind the scenes in a number of high-profile projects. She has overseen
  
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• Pedestrian struck by tractor-trailer in Cornwall-area parking lot

  15-01-2026 17:12 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 33-year-old man was hospitalized on Tuesday after being struck by a tractor-trailer in a parking lot on Boundary Road. SDG OPP said Wednesday officers responded to the Boundary Road location just before 10:30 p.m. The man was taken to hospital with what were described as non-life-threatening injuries. An investigation is ongoing. OPP ask anyone with relevant information, particularly any dashcam video, to call 1-888-310-1122, or report anonymously via Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online
  
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• Cornwall council briefs: Cybersecurity training update cites AI-powered attacks

  14-01-2026 22:48 via standard-freeholder.com
  Cornwall council approved updates to the city’s cybersecurity policy on Monday, with a staff report citing how cyber threats are now driven by artificial intelligence (AI) powered attacks, automation, and sophisticated tactics. Under the updated policy, city employees will now be provided with short cybersecurity training sessions once per month. If employees have not completed their training after four weeks, they will be placed in a restricted security group that is only allowed to acces
  
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• Heckling of refs leads to show of solidarity from young South Stormont minor hockey goaltender

  14-01-2026 20:05 via standard-freeholder.com
  This article has been edited to correct the team Henrick Lincoln plays for, add comments from the team’s trainer, and add comments from the Cornwall Minor Hockey Association president Minor hockey games in Canada are known for bringing out strong reactions. A game that took place in December at the Lanark and District Community Centre left a particularly unpleasant feeling for one player, and that didn’t sit well with him. According to Caitlin Wells, whose youngest son Henrik is in h
  
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• Heckling of refs leads to show of solidarity from young Cornwall minor hockey goaltender

  14-01-2026 20:05 via standard-freeholder.com
  Minor hockey games in Canada are known for bringing out strong reactions. A game that took place in December at the Lanark and District Community Centre left a particularly unpleasant feeling for one player, and that didn’t sit well with him. According to Caitlin Wells, whose youngest son Henrik is in his first year of hockey with the Cornwall Minor Hockey Association (CMHA), parents were horrified when two adults took heckling to a whole new level. “It just completely escalated from
  
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• Cornwall police charge teen with threatening to kill another student

  14-01-2026 17:24 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 15-year-old boy is facing a charge after police responded to a call on Tuesday. Police alleged the teen threatened to kill another student. The teen, whose identity cannot be released under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm. He was released from police custody to appear in Cornwall court at an undisclosed later date.Thefts, fail to attendA 38-year-old man from Cornwall is facing five charges following investigations into complaints
  
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• Massey Commons risk assessment presentation made to Cornwall council

  13-01-2026 23:48 via standard-freeholder.com
  An assessment for Cornwall’s Massey Commons transitional-housing project has identified five areas the city should consider changing in order to mitigate the risks to its residents, and its neighbours. Cornwall councillors received a presentation about the risk assessment on Monday that provided an overview, but have not yet received the report itself. The risk assessment was awarded to
  Garda Canada Security Corporation for $10,509 in February 2025.Quickly giving an overview of recommended
  
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• Cornwall Fire Services respond to shed fire on Thirteenth Street West

  13-01-2026 23:23 via standard-freeholder.com
  Cornwall Fire Services responded to an active fire situation at 353 Thirteenth St. W., just east of Cumberland Street on Tuesday afternoon. “I came home to pick up my truck and I noticed there was smoke on the side of the garage,” said homeowner Joseph Gauthier. “I’m just glad everybody is OK in the house.” Firefighters, Cornwall SDG Paramedic Services, and the Cornwall Police Service were quick to respond to the scene.“Our dispatch received reports of a shed
  
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• St. Lawrence College hopes to improve long-term care staffing through research

  13-01-2026 23:14 via standard-freeholder.com
  While Ontario’s long-term care sector continues to face mounting challenges, two faculty members from St. Lawrence College are preparing to tackle one of the province’s most persistent ones. Dr. Andrea Rochon and Julie Dyke, professors in the school of nursing at St. Lawrence College, have been awarded a grant to support a three-year long research project that could change how students, and the public, view careers long-term care. “Our scope is to change your perspective,&rdquo
  
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• Coun. Carilyne Hébert verbally reprimanded for code of conduct breach

  13-01-2026 22:22 via standard-freeholder.com
  Cornwall councillors accepted the findings of their integrity commissioner David G. Boghosian related to Coun. Carilyne Hébert’s code of conduct breach and chose to verbally reprimand their colleague on Monday. Hébert was found to have
   breached the city’s Code of Conduct for Members of Council and Local Boards section 10.3 in two respects by disrespecting council’s decisions, and section 11.4 of the code for failing to respect neutrality.A complaint was file
  
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• OPP charge two with drug-related offences in South Mountain

  13-01-2026 20:44 via standard-freeholder.com
  SOUTH MOUNTAIN — Two people from North Dundas are each facing charges following an OPP East Region community street crime unit investigation that led to the search of a Maple Street residence on Monday. OPP said the investigation into drug trafficking in the area started earlier this month. During the search, officers seized quantities of what they suspected was cocaine and crack cocaine, along with a sword, cash, and several cellphones. Two people were taken into custody during the search
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with assault, committing indecent act

  13-01-2026 18:47 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 27-year-old man from Cornwall is facing various charges tied to several police investigations. Police alleged the man assaulted his ex-girlfriend on May 20, after which a warrant was issued for his arrest on a domestic assault charge. Police also alleged the man committed an indecent act while driving his motor vehicle on Oct. 14. He was taken into custody by RCMP officers on Monday, and later transferred to Cornwall police custody. In addition to the domestic assault charge, the man was charg
  
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• Cornwall cuts back on its economic development budget in 2026

  12-01-2026 23:51 via standard-freeholder.com
  While Cornwall’s manager of economic development Bob Peters said a smaller increase to property tax base is in and of itself a draw to the region, councillors expressed concerns with cuts to the department’s bottom line. During city budget deliberations in December, council heard the department would see a $50,000 reduction to its marketing budget line in 2026. This is an overall decrease of the department’s budget by about 30 per cent, according Peters. “We will take the
  
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• Serious ATV collision in Moose Creek

  12-01-2026 22:40 via standard-freeholder.com
  MOOSE CREEK — A 35-year-old man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries following an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision on Sunday evening. SDG OPP said Monday officers responded to Valley and Nevada streets in the village around 7 p.m. Sunday, following the single-vehicle collision. The roadways were closed to allow emergency crews the space and time to manage the scene safely, and were later reopened to traffic. OPP officers are continuing the investigation into the collisio
  
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• Cornwall police charge man for assaulting woman, damaging her phone

  12-01-2026 21:19 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 37-year-old man from Cornwall is facing three charges after police responded to an intimate-partner violence complaint on Sunday. Police alleged the man assaulted his girlfriend several times, and damaged the woman’s phone. The man was charged with two counts of domestic assault, and mischief — destroys or damages property. He was held in police custody pending a bail hearing in Cornwall court.Assault, breachesA 45-year-old man from Cornwall is facing eight charges after police res
  
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• South Dundas welcomes 2026 with Christmas tree bonfires

  12-01-2026 20:47 via standard-freeholder.com
  MORRISBURG — With a hot chocolate and hotdog in both hands, Reece Arsenault watched the primordial spectacle of a large blaze. The fuel was the family’s Christmas tree, which was added to a pile of dozens from other families.He, and his father, Chad, were among the hundreds of South Dundas residents who brought their trees over the weekend to the Morrisburg and Iroquois waterfront parks. As Morrisburg firefighters successively added each tree, Reece simply shrugged when asked how he
  
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• Cornwall youth team qualifies for Lego challenge championship

  09-01-2026 22:19 via standard-freeholder.com
  A young robotics team in Cornwall has earned its way to the First Lego League (FLL) Challenge provincial championship happening in Oshawa at the end of the month. Motivated by passion, creativity, and friendship, the group has been practising about three times a week since the summer. Emerson Shoniker, Denith Silva, Hudson Allaire, Quinn Walker, and Ithaca Silva, who make up the team, finished second overall in the Ottawa Valley Qualifying Tournament at the end of November, sealing their opportu
  
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• Cornwall police charge man with B & E, repeatedly harassing woman

  09-01-2026 16:26 via standard-freeholder.com
  A 30-year-old man from Valleyfield, Que., is facing 12 charges out of various police investigations into his behaviour. Police alleged the man unlawfully entered his girlfriend’s residence on Dec. 4, harassed the woman to the point she feared for her safety, and repeatedly communicated with the woman. Police alleged the man brandished a weapon in videos posted to social media on Dec. 7, causing the woman to fear for her safety, and then repeatedly communicated with the woman on Dec. 28 and
  
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• Reprimand recommended for Cornwall Coun. Carilyne Hébert for breach of conduct

  09-01-2026 00:24 via standard-freeholder.com
  Coun. Carilyne Hébert issued a public letter with an apology on Thursday in relation to a Cornwall integrity commissioner report recommending she be formally reprimanded for three breaches of the city’s Code of Conduct for Members of Council and Local Boards. In summary, the city’s integrity commissioner David G. Boghosian found in his report she breached section 10.3 of the code in two respects by disrespecting council’s decisions, and section 11.4 of the code for faili
  
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• Highway 138 improvements move to engineering phase

  08-01-2026 23:50 via standard-freeholder.com
  Following a town hall information session in June 2025, the recommendations of the 2017 Stantec report are set to move forward. The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) has closed the bidding process on a request for proposal (RFP) that will see the province hire an engineering firm to move forward with the initial design phase. According to documents obtained through an request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the MTO has committed to the bulk of design pro
  
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• Semifinalists announced for the Cornwall Tourism Innovation Challenge

  08-01-2026 22:59 via standard-freeholder.com
  With just a little over a month before the main event, the Cornwall Tourism Development Funds’ Tourism Innovation Challenge has announced the semifinalists for the upcoming pitch-based competition which organizers have likened to the television show Dragon’s Den. The application process was open to all business ideas based in Canada that could present a plan that would show innovative tourism-related ideas that would serve Cornwall. “The big goal of the Cornwall Tourism Develop
  
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• Council recommends one change to Cornwall's 2026 property tax budget

  08-01-2026 22:35 via standard-freeholder.com
  Only one recommended amendment to the city’s draft 2026 property tax budget was approved by council for the mayor’s consideration on Wednesday. Divisive in nature around the table, the amendment passed in a split 4-3 vote. Considering the flavour for amendments that were not approved earlier in the afternoon, it was Coun. Fred Ngoundjo’s vote that carried the change forward. The resolution, proposed by Couns. Sarah Good and Todd Bennett, recommended providing the Social Develop
  
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• Several water main, sewer repairs approved in Cornwall's 2026 water and wastewater budgets

  08-01-2026 22:02 via standard-freeholder.com
  Since Cornwall councillors made no motions to amend the city’s 2026 draft water and wastewater budgets on Wednesday, it is now considered approved under new strong mayor budget process, and will be formally adopted through a bylaw at a future regular meeting. The city’s general taxation budget is not yet finalized, as council approved some changes to it on Wednesday. Should no councillors object to the bylaw, this means 2026 will see the city spend$27,903,566 on its water and wastewa
  
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• Cornwall Transit budget includes slight fare increase in 2026

  07-01-2026 23:24 via standard-freeholder.com
  Cornwall council heard last month that Cornwall Transit has budgeted for a modest fare increase. The increase will see riders pay an additional $2 for monthly passes or 10-ride cards, and an additional $0.25 for family day passes, should council adopt the city’s 2026 draft budget as presented. These increases would come into effect on March 1. Cash fares for single rides would not change. Manager of Cornwall Transit Jean Marcil spoke to the department’s budget during a meeting on Dec
  
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• Weather delays St. Lawrence Seaway's closing

  07-01-2026 21:22 via standard-freeholder.com
  Cold weather and ice buildup in the Montréal-area canals have delayed the closing of the St. Lawrence Seaway’s 2025 shipping season. The shipping waterway was scheduled to end its 2025 navigation season on Jan. 5. Cold temperatures have made ice buildup in the south shore and Beauharnois canals difficult to navigate. Icebreaking operations remain ongoing while crews also work to keep the locks in the system operable. “The St. Lawrence Seaway is operating under extreme winter c
  
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• Eastern Ontario Premier League soccer hosts winter classic in Cornwall

  07-01-2026 16:24 via standard-freeholder.com
  A new soccer league in Cornwall picked up attention before the New Year with a daylong pickup tournament that brought more than 60 participants to the Benson Centre. The winter classic event was intented to get the ball rolling for the Eastern Ontario Premier League’s inaugural soccer season, which is planned to begin in spring of 2026. “We hope to have it similarly ran to how we did basketball last year,” said Jacob Nimene.  Nimene returned home for summer break last year
  
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• Gordon Cornwall Obituary (2026) - Graettinger, IA - Legacy | Obituary

  07-01-2026 02:50
  Gordon Cornwall Obituary (2026) - Graettinger, IA  Legacy | Obituary
  
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