Renewed funding for rural municipalities for 2021
The Ontario Government has announced new funding under the Ontario Community Infrastructure Funding program . Minister for Municipal Affairs and Housing, and local M.P.P.,...
Local students are back in school
Following an announcement by Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, elementary and secondary schools in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit have been allowed back to...
Local Vaccine Status
by the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Health Unit
The Health Unit’s COVID-19 Distribution and Administration Roll Out Plan helps facilitate the efficient and effective delivery...
The Ace of Spades will keep hiding – for a little while longer
by Jane Adams
The Kin Club of Russell has announced that Catch the Ace is suspended due to the latest provincial COVID-19 stay-at-home order. But...
Mild Winter causing unstable ice throughout Rideau watershed
from the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
We have had a warmer than usual December and a mild January to date. As a result of a...
OPP Street Crime Unit seizes cocaine, fentanyl & meth in Prescott
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) has seized a variety of illegal drugs in Prescott, with one person...
Keeping you safe at our conservation areas
by The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
We know that outdoor spaces matter right now more than ever: your mental and physical health depend on them....
First COVID-19 vaccination in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark
by The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
The shipment of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine to Kingston Health Science Centre (KHSC) this week marks the...
Critical time to reduce further spread of COVID-19
by Dr. Paula Stewart, Medical Officer of Health
Effective Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 12:01 a.m., the government issued a stay-at-home order requiring everyone to...
School reopening delayed
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise at an alarming rate throughout the province, the Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of...