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Article content Edwardsburgh Cardinal Township is negotiating to buy 10,000 acres from the Ontario government that was assembled in a provincial land bank half a century ago. The land includes 2,000 acres that the township has pitched as a site for a major manufacturer as part of an Ontario government competition called the Job Site Challenge. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Township in talks to buy land bank Back to video Mayor Pat Sayeau said th...

Article content Edwardsburgh Cardinal Township is negotiating to buy 10,000 acres from the Ontario government that was assembled in a provincial land bank half a century ago. The land includes 2,000 acres that the township has pitched as a site for a major manufacturer as part of an Ontario government competition called the Job Site Challenge. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Township in talks to buy land bank Back to video Mayor Pat Sayeau said th...

Article content Edwardsburgh Cardinal Township is negotiating to buy 10,000 acres from the Ontario government that was assembled in a provincial land bank half a century ago. The land includes 2,000 acres that the township has pitched as a site for a major manufacturer as part of an Ontario government competition called the Job Site Challenge. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Township in talks to buy land bank Back to video Mayor Pat Sayeau said th...

Article content It’s Game On for a new arena and community centre in Prescott. There were smiles and grins all around on Wednesday as the federal and provincial governments announced a combined $9.7 million toward the cost of the project to replace the old Leo Boivin Community Centre that was mothballed in 2018. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Puck drops for Prescott arena Back to video A gleeful Mayor Brett Todd said the governments’ commitme...

Article content It’s Game On for a new arena and community centre in Prescott. There were smiles and grins all around on Wednesday as the federal and provincial governments announced a combined $9.7 million toward the cost of the project to replace the old Leo Boivin Community Centre that was mothballed in 2018. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Puck drops for Prescott arena Back to video A gleeful Mayor Brett Todd said the governments’ commitme...

Article content If there was a fire or emergency in Augusta Township during the last 50 years, chances are good that Maynard Vandervelde was there to help. Vandervelde, one of the founders of the North Augusta fire hall, celebrates 50 years as a volunteer firefighter on May 1. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Half a century with Augusta Fire Back to video At 72, Vandervelde is still on the job and says he has no plans to retire. His decades of serv...

Article content The Brockville General Hospital has opened its doors to patients from across Eastern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area as part of a provincewide shuttle to ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals in COVID-19 hotspots. As of mid-week, BGH had received or was expecting 30 patients – some with COVID, some not – from hospitals in Cornwall, Kingston, Scarborough and Oshawa. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. BGH taking patients from...

The provincial government tightened the screws on its lockdown order on Friday by ordering new restrictions on gatherings and retail, partially closing…

Article content A third local person has died of COVID-19 in the last five days, the health unit reported Wednesday. The latest death was a woman who was a member of the community, in other words not a resident of long-term care, but the health unit could not release other details. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Third COVID death in five days Back to video Susan Healey, who speaks for the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit, said the...

The local health unit reported a new COVID-19 death during the weekend as 49 more cases were detected, including a virus surge in the Brockville area.