Editing Coboconk (section)

== Coverage in the media ==
The village was featured in the news when Bob Edmonds, a resident, had his winning lottery ticket stolen by the local [[convenience store]] clerk.<ref name="fifth estate">{{cite web|title=Fifth Estate|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=October 29, 2006|url=http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/luckofthedraw/index.html|access-date=2009-12-27}}</ref> The ensuing scandal began a series of changes within the [[Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation]] to improve the security of claiming prizes.

Coboconk was also associated with the 2005 murder of [[Alicia Ross]], when some of her remains were recovered following her killer's confession.<ref>{{cite web|title=Secret Murder Details Finally Released As Alicia Ross Murder Trial Opens|publisher=City TV|date=May 7, 2005|url=http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/12939--secret-murder-details-finally-released-as-alicia-ross-murder-trial-opens|access-date=2010-01-02}}</ref>

Coboconk appears in Canadian fiction in the murder-mystery novel ''Old City Hall'' by [[Robert Rotenberg]],<ref name="national post">{{cite web|last=Marchand|first=Philip|title=Murder most polite|work=National Post|date=March 14, 2009|url=http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/03/14/philip-marchand-murder-most-polite.aspx|access-date=2009-12-26}}</ref> as well as in a 1926 novel.<ref>{{citation|last=Loudon|first=W.J.|title=Studies of Student Life - Volume III - Silas Smith of Coboconk|year=1926|publisher=MacMillan Co. of Canada Ltd.}}</ref>