From bricks to clicks and then back to bricks.
That’s how the executive director of the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association (OBIAA) described the Digital Main Street program.
Kay Matthews was joined by elected officials in the clock park in downtown Spencerville on Friday afternoon to acknowledge a grant of $127,345 that will be used to fund “digital service squads” in the Leeds and Grenville area.
All 13 local municipalities collaborated...
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The Ontario government is giving St. Lawrence College $774,000 to run two programs aimed at training people for jobs in the skilled trades.
“It’s going to help us put people in the right jobs and help employers,” Glenn Vollebregt, the college’s president and chief executive officer, told the small crowd gathered at Brockville’s Northern Cables Friday afternoon.  Read the full story .

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“Safe travels’” use to be a phrase used to wish a friend or acquaintance a decent journey, but Covid has changed that.
Now the Safe Travels Stamp is a global badge that identifies businesses that follow safe travel protocols in a pandemic world.
Close to home, Rockport Boat Line has just been awarded the #SafeTravels Stamp. Like all other similar operators, Rockport Cruises is running at less than half capacity but doing it safely.
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Upgrades Will Improve Public Safety, Modernize Facilities and Support Economic Recovery
Ontario is making strategic investments in public safety and strengthening justice services by modernizing the adult correctional system across Eastern Ontario. New construction and building upgrades will update facilities, address issues of overcrowding, and create new spaces for the delivery of mental health services, inmate programming and staff training.  Read the full story .

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Brockville will get a new jail and an expansion of the St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre as part of $500 million in Eastern Ontario Corrections spending announced by the provincial government on Thursday.
In announcements that were hailed as great news by MPP Steve Clark and regional mayors, the government also promised to build a new jail in Kemptville, a new building for the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee and renovations at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention...
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