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While Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District celebrates its sky-high uptake, the City of Cornwall sounds the alarm.

“They did an absolutely amazing job, and it was wonderful to see organizations out, and all the people and all the kids,” she said. “I give a lot of credit to the residents, because they really stepped up, and they really embraced the week.” Mayor Marcel Roy agreed, saying the city looks really good now, particularly with the rain helping everything to green up. Coun. Ryan Janke, who had a challenge going with Coun. Laura Morrissette for the cleanup week, conceded that her team did a better job than his did. “My team got out there and did our very best, but she and her team outp...

Weyburn city council unanimously supported granting a one-year full tax exemption for a property at 54 Queen Street, with the condition that a business be developed on this property, at their . . .

They included a wide area mower, two 72-inch mowers, a utility work machine with attachments and an electric turf utility vehicle. The latter two pieces of equipment are new purchases for the Credit Union Spark Centre, while the mowers are for use by the parks department. The tender for the two 72-inch mowers were awarded to Tractorland of Regina at a bid price of $41,254, with a trade-in. The wide area mower and the electric turf utility machine were both awarded to South Country Equipment, in the amounts of $79,075 and $16,855 respectively, and the utility work machine tender was awarded...

The recommendation was to raise the mill rates for agricultural and railway properties, and on residential properties, and to lower the commercial mill rate. The result will be, for a commercial property with an assessment of $300,000, a decrease of $13.70, and for a residential property with an assessment of $300,000, there will be an increase of about 97 cents. Coun. Jeff Richards said he would vote in favour of this move as 2020 was a very difficult year for the business community, and 2021 might be even harder. “A $13.70 decrease isn’t going to make much difference, and it might n...