The Thousand Islands have a thousand secrets and this 19th-century village on the edge of Wellesley Island is just one of them. This heritage resort transports visitors not only to a unique place but to a different time. It's not just the gingerbread cottages, The Guzzle Ice Cream parlour, [...]

Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion rode into the heart of cowboy country Friday to lasso support for his green plan in a province that snorts at any whiff of the old national energy program. The policy brought in by the Trudeau Liberals in the early 1980s is still despised [...]

Ontario won't immediately be testing blood, urine or saliva samples taken from motorists suspected of driving while high, which critics warn is stripping police of important new powers that would help them stop impaired drivers. The government-run centre responsible for the testing isn't accepting any samples under new federal [...]

City police say the public should be concerned a violent sex offender considered a high risk to reoffend could be moving to Brockville. That's why police took the unusual step Friday of releasing Leonard Watts' photograph ahead of his July 16 release from Kingston Penitentiary. "He is a [...]

Robert Montgomery used to power up his aging 100-horsepower outboard and blast out to his island property in mere minutes. Those days are gone. Water recreation is the latest casualty of high gasoline prices as boaters say they're changing the way they spend time on the lake. [...]

A parents' group fighting to keep two rural schools open in eastern Ontario was aligned with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Upper Canada District School Board's director of education wrote the province's minister of education in response to their appeals. "The Upper Canada School Coalition is an [...]

Brandon and Kurtis Boyd just eat, sleep and row. That’s what the Brockville brothers love to do. That hard work, determination and sacrifice has resulted in the duo being named to the Canadian national team’s lightweight eight crew that will be competing in the FISA World Championships in [...]

Brockville will soon have an unwelcome new citizen – a violent sex offender who is rated as a high-risk candidate to reoffend. Leonard Watts has informed Corrections Canada officials that he intends to move to the city when his current sentence at Kingston Penitentiary expires July 16. Watts, [...]

The majority of Ontario's nursing homes have failed to meet basic standards set out by the province to preserve the rights of elderly residents, with some failing to bathe residents even twice a week, others leaving seniors sitting for hours in soiled diapers and still others unnecessarily restraining those in [...]

Brockville police are offering an early retirement payout to some veteran officers, a deal that could cost the city up to $180,000. However, Brockville's director of human resources Jim Baker said the payback from hiring less experienced officers to replace the retirees is one year to 18 months. [...]

An object of Thousand Islands cultural significance, stolen and cut into pieces, has been recovered and restored at Heron Point near Rockport. The authentic First Nations totem pole, believed to have been carved in Alaska more than 100 years ago, was stolen from its traditional summer spot on Tar [...]

An official with the union representing workers at the Stanley Works factory here says he will seek an explanation from company officials for the "outrageous" and "disrespectful" manner it used to inform employees that the plant would be closing. According to Bob Huget, vice-president for the Ontario region of [...]

Already reeling from pending closures to the Rideau Regional Centre and Hershey Chocolate, this town's economy has just suffered another devastating blow. Stanley Works announced Tuesday the closure of its Smiths Falls facility, leaving 175 workers without a job. In a statement, the company said the shutdown is [...]

One person received minor burn injuries in a house fire that heavily damaged the attic of a west-end Brockville single-family residence early this morning. Brockville Fire Chief Harry Jones said the department responded to the call at 36 Dales Ave. at 3:36 a.m. All seven people living in [...]

They're the little stories, snapshots of life that never garner the big headline or a front-page photograph back in Canada. But, speaking by telephone Monday from Kandahar, Afghanistan, Captain Terry Byrd said the daily sight of Afghans living "normal" lives reassures him a nine-month separation from his family means [...]

Secretaries, janitors and other workers employed by the region's separate schools are getting a 3.7 per cent pay hike this year after ratifying a one-year contract with the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario. The members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) covered by the new [...]

The Brockville Rowing Club has an incredible ability to produce talented rowers. That success rate keeps on growing with seven rowers earning full scholarships to American universities for this fall, bringing the total in the past five years to between 20 and 25. And, that's not counting the [...]

A southwestern Ontario fishery operator is shocked by the province's decision to ban sturgeon fishing. Tim Purdy of Purdy's Fisheries expressed disbelief at Friday's announcement, saying his staff has worked with government officials to bring back Canada's largest and longest-lived fresh water species. The McGuinty government said Friday [...]

The Recorder and Times will not be publishing on Tuesday but will be back on Wednesday with all the local, regional, provincial, national and international news and sports. Have a safe and happy Canada Day holiday.

There was loud music, screaming fans, minimal profanities and a whole lot of Hedley at Riverfest last night. More than 5,000 people came down to Brockville's waterfront to check out the concert, many of them drenched from early evening thundershowers, but excited nonetheless. The majority of the crowd were [...]