Brockville News

Michael Lea/The Whig-StandardCUPE local 4440 representative paramedic Steve Pinkney in front of the Gananoque ambulance base.

Brockville's Sean Fry is ready to run for it. The 14 year old has his official Olympic torchbearer uniform and is anxiously awaiting his jog into the spotlight on Monday when the torch is carried through the city beginning at approximately 3:30 p.m. "Come out and cheer us on," Fry said as encouragement to residents throughout the area during an ...

Brockville native Jacqueline Rasenberg has always wanted to be a firefighter. But even while harbouring that dream, what Rasenberg couldn't have known all those years ago is that it would not only come true, but that she'd become one of the best firefighters in the world.

As winds gusted to 60 km/h Wednesday morning and Environment Canada predicted 15 centimetres of snow, eastern Ontario school boards were quick to cancel school bus service.

Jacquie McNish Published on Tuesday, Dec. 08, 2009 6:20PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Dec.

The man who was the last survivor of the 1930 J.B. King drill boat disaster has passed away.

Robert Morrison His new biography on the English essayist and opium addict Thomas De Quincey, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves.

OTTAWA a ' Residents in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville will be able to make appointments to get H1N1 pandemic flu shots at new clinics opening in Brockville and Smiths Falls, the area's health unit announced Thursday.

City officials released more details Tuesday about the Olympic Torch Relay's swing through Brockville later this month.

The restoration of the north end of Brockville's historic railway tunnel will cost taxpayers an additional $50,000. At their regular meeting last night, city councillors approved additional spending of that amount to replace a broken door and stabilize a buckling wall, raising the cost of the ongoing project to nearly $400,000. The motion includes ...

Brockville Police are looking for information about a hit-and-run motor-vehicle collision on Parkedale Ave.

They come together three hours before the Brockville Santa Claus parade for a pizza lunch.

The early bird doesn't always get the worm, especially on Black Friday. "At the beginning it was chaos," said Lori L. Somerville, Brockville, Ontario, who waited in line, in the rain, at Walmart Friday morning for the doors to open.

Brockville General Hospital will host a vigil next week to remember and acknowledge the terrible toll of violence against women.

A Brockville, Ont., man convicted of sex-related offences in Cornwall has been handed a sentence of two years and three months.

A new Lily Bay-area subdivision has been given the nod by Elizabethtown- Kitley Township.

A marked increase in business during 2009 is anything but a good news story for local food banks.

Robert Reid Hormone replacement therapy, in the Peterborough Examiner, Welland Tribune, Pembroke Observer, Sarnia Observer, St.

The Special Investigations Unit says there are no reasonable grounds to lay charges against two provincial police officers in the fatal shooting of an eastern Ontario man in July 2009.

A piece of a Dutch tribute to Canada's Second World War liberators will take a place of honour in the Brockville Armouries museum.