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Diana’s Quiz – April 20, 2024

by Diana Filer 1.  When did Nobel Prizes...

EARTHFEST, April 20 in Carleton Place

Second Annual EARTHFEST, April 20 in Carleton...

An Almonte baby boom

Springtime is often busy in the Almonte...

Monthly Archives: October, 2016

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The Less Obvious Journey

by Rosemary Leach This past weekend I entered an empty auditorium. I sat down at the front and lifted the tiny writing table. “This is where...

Gay Cook’s White Fruit Christmas Cake

If you are a lover of fruit cake for Christmas, now is the time to make it so the cake can mature, become more...

New youth centre poised to open doors — December 8

The Grand Opening of the new Mississippi Mills Youth Centre is coming SOON! Since September, the youth centre staff have been running programming from various...

Have you misplaced your pig?

(Township of Lanark Highlands, ON) – On the afternoon of Friday 25th November 2016, officers from the Lanark County Detachment of The Ontario Provincial...

Gardening in Almonte: Be Fruitful

Growing up on a dairy farm, I always suspected that my dad’s first love was not the cattle but rather his small orchard of...

“Coffee to stay please”

Contented is the word for my state of being this morning---a shared camaraderie with other frequent patrons of my go-to coffee house. I often...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – November 26, 2016

Hoosegow, a slang word meaning ‘confinement in a place for people held in lawful custody’, as a jail, for example, derives from the...

Rebecca Noelle Trio – review

by Edith Cody-Rice I attended my first JazzNhouse concert last evening, with no intention of reviewing the performance  for the Millstone. It was simply a...

Reader concerned about County herbicide plan

Fellow Residents of Lanark County: On November 23, at a Lanark County Council meeting, our county councillors were provided with a presentation on an Integrated...

Fundraiser for medal-winning teen kayaker

Fuel for Aidan by Rosemary Leach Next March, 15 year-old Aidan Dumont hopes to be on a dock in Homosassa Florida. Lots of people hope they can...

Georges Normand — obituary

NORMAND, GEORGES (Ret. C/M - R.C.M.P)  Peacefully in Fairview Manor, Almonte on November 26,  2016. Georges Normand of Blakeney, age 76 years. Beloved father of Stacey & Brent Normand.  Especially...

What is That … Spider?

Most of the articles we have written for this column have been about relatively large, charismatic mammals or birds, but sometimes we give a...

Swing Time by Zadie Smith – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice I always feel a 'frisson' of anticipation when I approach a Zadie Smith novel. Something about her writing is delightful. She has...

Diana’s Quiz – November 26, 2016

Where did the word ‘hoosegow’ originate What is the term for the ratio of the speed of a moving object to the speed...

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