This week's edition (April 17) of The Glengarry News features coverage of the Raisin River Canoe Race. For a brief online story and access to complete results, follow this link.

A bridge spanning the Garry River at the Glengarry Golf Club has been washed out.

The road is expected to be repaired by the end of the week.

Students from L'École secondaire catholique Le Relais and Glengarry District High School in Alexandria were among the thousands who staged demonstrations Wednesday in province-wide protests against the Ontario government's education cutbacks.

More than 100 Le Relais students and about 65 GDHS students walked out of classes for about an hour.

Here is the front page of this week's edition.

Here's this week's front page.

MacMillan Road in North Stormont has now been re-opened after being closed for a culvert replacement.

An arrest has been made as the result of an historical sexual assault investigation conducted by members of the Stormont Dundas & Glengarry Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP, assisted by the SD&G OPP Crime Unit.

Gilles Deslauriers, 79, of Vercheres, Quebec was arrested March 12.

He faces two counts of indecent assault on a male.

These charges are in relation to alleged incidents involving a young male victim, dating back to 1976.

The accused was released and is scheduled to appear in court in Alexandria April 3.

Most Reverend Guy Desrochers was ordained Auxiliary-Bishop of the Alexandria-Cornwall Diocese Friday afternoon at St. Finnan's Cathedral in Alexandria. Full coverage in our February 27 edition.

A possible merger of bus routes will not happen soon, but at least one school board official insists "silos" must be toppled. Read about the ongoing school debate in the February 20 edition of The News.

Road crews are still busy clearing the routes in wake of the big storm.