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Small tax decrease for United Counties homeowners February 17, 2021 Reading time: 1 min 30 s By Nick Seebruch CORNWALL, Ontario – The United Counties of SD&G Council passed a small decrease to the 2021 draft budget from the previous year. At their budget meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 17, Council approved a draft tax rate decrease of 0.74 per cent from the previous year. The 2021 United Counties draft budget is approximately $57 million. The average home in the Unit...

VOTE NOW for the KFC Player of the Week from a poll consisting of the Best XI performers from matches across the grades in Clarence River Cricket.

A Bush Baby and a Badger, a Seahorse, a Swan and a Sausage… theyre just some of the surreal characters whove been brightening up the gloom on these lockdown Saturday nights in TVs craziest talent show The Masked Singer – and 7 million viewers each week have been hooked trying to work out who they really are. Part singing contest, part guessing game, the show has got the nation chanting Take it off! Take it off! at the big reveal each week along with the audience and panel – but the bigges...

Article content The wait is over — the results from the United Counties of SDG’s snowplow naming contest have been revealed. SDG first announced its contest, which invited residents to come up with names for its fleet of 16 snow plows in early January. Following the initial announcement, administration received a total of 781 responses. An internal selection group was then created in order to garner input from staff and county Warden Frank Prevost. We apologize, but this video has failed to...

Clarence River cricketers turned on plenty of outstanding performances in the first week back from the Christmas break. Find out who made the Best XI...

When Conor McGregor arrived at Fight Island on a massive yacht for his UFC 257 main event against Dustin Poirier, it was yet another illustration of a career that has reached unprecedented heights for an MMA fighter. It wasnt always this way. McGregors coach, John Kavanagh, remembers a time in 2013 when McGregor thought he needed a new line of work. He was competing in the minor leagues of MMA and was making so little he survived on welfare checks. During the course of the next eight years, McG...

When Conor McGregor arrived at Fight Island on a massive yacht for his UFC 257 main event against Dustin Poirier, it was yet another illustration of a career that has reached unprecedented heights for an MMA fighter. It wasnt always this way. McGregors coach, John Kavanagh, remembers a time in 2013 when McGregor thought he needed a new line of work. He was competing in the minor leagues of MMA and was making so little he survived on welfare checks. During the course of the next eight years, McG...

SDG Newspaper digitization continues Reading time: 2 min 30 s By Phillip Blancher, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter UNITED COUNTIES of SD&G, Ontario – Wrapping up the SDG Counties’ newspaper digitization project is no small feat, in fact it is the project that is a victim of its own success. “The good news and the bad news is, we’re not done yet,” said MP Eric Duncan, who has spearheaded the digitization project for the past two years. “We’ve been very i...

TECUMSEH — The Tecumseh Public Schools board met Monday for its first meeting of the new year and selected its new officers.The virtual meeting began with Superintendent Rick Hilderley serving as chairman before a board president was chosen.The oath of office was administered to three members of the board — new members Tony Rebottaro and Greg Lewis, who will begin four-year terms on the board — and board president Kevin Johnson, who was selected at the

It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish. Cameron Smith showed that at last year’s Sony Open in Hawaii. Smith won despite playing his first two holes in 4 over par, including a triple-bogey on his second hole of the tournament. Smith is the only player in the ShotLink era (since 2003) to win after playing his first two holes in 4 over par. He’s also one of just 10 players since 1990 to win after making a triple-bogey (or worse) in the opening round. Smith is in strong company, as...