Brockville Recorder and Times

The tri-county health unit hopes to have a policy in place next week on the wearing of masks – and there are indications they will be mandatory in public indoor spaces. A spokeswoman at the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit on Friday said officials are in talks with their […]

Another piece of the funding puzzle for County Road 43 fell into place this week as the federal government approved it as part of its infrastructure program. The federal approval and its commitment of about $5 million toward the widening of the county road means that the first phase of the […]

The COVID-19 crisis offers a “tremendous opportunity” to persuade big-city residents to relocate to this area, a private company is telling local municipalities. SLX, a “residential attraction company,” says the surge in remote workers caused by the pandemic means the time […]

Brockville police will look into ways of cracking down on drivers who create a nuisance with loud mufflers in the downtown core. City council earlier this week endorsed a motion by Coun. Nathalie Lavergne requesting a report by the police services board “on the issue of noise and traffic […]

A Brockville woman faces charges in connection with an incident in which another woman was threatened with a baseball bat on Thursday evening. Brockville police responded to a complaint of an altercation at a north-end restaurant at approximately 7:30 p.m. Police said the participants in the fight […]

Provincial police teamed up with the Brockville Police Service in a seizure of illegal drugs in Augusta Township earlier this week. The Ontario Provincial Police East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) and Brockville police carried out a search warrant at a home on Alta Vista Drive on […]

City hall will look into the possibility of opening cooling centres for people who don’t have access to air conditioning during heat waves. After a sometimes contentious debate, councillors earlier this week endorsed a motion by Coun. Leigh Bursey, directing staff “to investigate […]

The City of Brockville intends on opening its indoor ice surfaces to user groups sometime this fall as long as the province permits hockey games to be played. That was the informal but clear direction provided to municipal staff by Brockville council at its meeting on Tuesday evening. The status of […]