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News & Announcements brings together timely reporting and official updates that directly affect our local community, including coverage of breaking police incidents, major municipal developments, and other stories with immediate local impact.
From breaking stories to public notices and key developments, this section exists to keep residents informed about what’s happening — and why it matters here.
St. Lawrence College helps local hospitals in the fight against COVID-19
St. Lawrence College (SLC) has donated three state-of-the-art ventilators, purchased last year, to local hospitals, one to the Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH),…
Ontario’s Action Plan: Responding to COVID-19
Premier Ford and Minister Phillips Announce Additional Health Care Resources and Support for People, Jobs and Employers TORONTO — Today,…
Stop the Spread Business Information Line
Now Open at 1-888-444-3659 (CORNWALL) – The province has launched a toll-free line 1-888-444-3659 to provide support to Ontario businesses…
Ontario Providing Electricity Relief to Families, Small Businesses and Farms During COVID-19
Province suspending time-of-use rates for 45 days TORONTO – To support Ontarians through the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, the Government…
Storm Internet ‘rising to the occasion’ for customers at home during COVID-19 crisis
EASTERN ONTARIO — Supplying an essential service is nothing new to Storm Internet Services, and the COVID-19 crisis has the…
Partnership for in-home testing of higher-risk individuals
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit is collaborating with Cornwall SDG Paramedic Services to implement a special Community Paramedic Program in…
List of Essential Workplaces
Office of the Premier For the purposes of this order, businesses include any-for-profit, non-profit or other entity providing the goods…
Ontario Orders the Mandatory Closure of All Non-Essential Workplaces to Fight Spread of COVID-19
New Measures to Further Protect the Health and Safety of the People of Ontario TORONTO — To further contain the…
Pass the message: Five steps to kicking out coronavirus WHO, FIFA launch joint campaign to equip football community to tackle COVID-19
Geneva, 23 March 2020: FIFA, the international governing body of football, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up…
Queen’s Park Update – March 20, 2020
by Jim McDonell, MPP for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry Let me first state how much I appreciate the patience and cooperation shown…
Province Takes Steps to Ensure Frontline Staff Can Continue to Work
Ontario to Open Select Child Care Centres across the Province TORONTO — In order to support health care and frontline…
Ontario Urges Business to Join the Fight Against COVID-19
New Government Website Removes Barriers for Companies to Provide Essential Goods and Services TORONTO — The Ontario Government is launching Ontario…
Ontario Takes Extraordinary Steps to Ensure Health Care Resources are Available to Contain COVID-19
TORONTO — Today, the Ontario government announced a new order under the March 17, 2020 declaration of emergency to ensure…
Province Launches First Phase of the Learn at Home Portal
(CORNWALL) — Today, Premier Doug Ford joined Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education to launch the first phase of Learn at…
Property Tax Notice – Deferral of taxes
The City of Cornwall has postponed the first and second instalments of interim taxation. Property tax payments that would be…
Are you really socially distancing?
Ontario now has over 300 cases of Covid-19 that we know of. As of press time, there were 5485 results…
Cornwall Hospital continues COVID-19 preparations
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging all programs to re-think how we offer services in order to protect our staff, clients,…
Most county staff now working from home
THE COUNTY, Ontario – The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry announced today that its staff have been instructed…
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City opens Helpline for Residents
The City of Cornwall has opened a helpline for residents with concerns and requests for support. The phone number is…