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Grilled Chicken with Blueberry Sauce

Blueberries are usually for dessert, but this...

Fish Fry Friday at the Legion, September 4

Almonte Legion Fish Fry Friday is September...

Every Body Yoga Program

CFCL is delighted to announce that we...

Arts & Culture

An Artist's Notes

Notes from local artist Eileen Hennemann about her paintings.

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John Dunn's Stories

Lanark Lit Writing Competition

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Carleton Place is the first in North America to host this 160-metre record

An embroidered cloth 160.5 metres long, stitched by communities across 14 European countries, will be shown outside Europe for the first time on September 13, at UA FEST in...

Almonte’s Fibrefest is back on September 12 and 13!

Almonte, ON- Come on out to the scenic town of Almonte on September 12 and 13 to celebrate the wonderful world of fibre arts at the 31st Fibrefest -...

Drawing and cartooning for kids

Join us at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum for cartooning fun! Classes run for 8 Wednesdays beginning October 7th-November 25th, 5:30-6:45pm. The session will be led by Sam Hamilton...
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An Artist's Notes

Notes from local artist Eileen Hennemann about her paintings.

Books

John Dunn's Stories

Lanark Lit Writing Competition

Pick of the Past

Almonte Celtfest salutes Cindy Thompson, Fiddler-in-Residence

by Ruth DuBois Imagine what can happen when a headliner performer like Cindy Thompson opens for a headliner performing band like Coig! Electricity, that's what!...

Town’s first ‘micro-library’ is open for business

What goes best with a freshly brewed Equator Coffee and a treat from Baker Bob’s?  A great book, of course! The next time you stroll...

The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice  Neil Pasricha is the  best selling author of the Book of Awesome Series which has sold over a million copies. His underlying...

Mrs. Liberty’s Party: a John Dunn story

(Published in the Almonte Gazette, Thursday, October 16, 1975) No, I’m not really tired, even though I’ve been on my feet for five hours today....

Spark Joy by Marie Kondo – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice Marie Kondo is the Japanese tidying guru who created an international sensation with her first book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying...

Dogs, cooking, puppets and fan mail: a sneak peek into the life of Ronnie Burkett

by Ilana Reimer One day when Ronnie Burkett was seven years old, he was flipping through the World Book Encyclopedia and it fell open to...

Local author launches latest young-adult novel

Liane Shaw launched her fifth book, Don't Tell, Don't Tell, Don't Tell, at Mill Street Books today as part of the nation-wide Authors for...

‘Festival of Small Halls’ to expand in region this year

The Millstone received this press release today. Festival of Small Halls expands local venue offering for 2016 The festival that brought big names in music to...

Journal Entry: Rosemary Leach

In squished spaces people have to co-operate a bit more. Furrow browed conversations at the café tables are interrupted by someone trying to get by....

The Anvil Parliament: a John Dunn story

It was a well-known fact in Almonte that any youngster who was forced to go to school for ten months of the year could...

General Fine Craft new exhibition

Almonte’s GENERAL FINE CRAFT  begins its 2016 exhibition schedule with a dynamic pairing of new work to the gallery. Both these emerging artists work intuitively...

Citizen features Noreen Young’s Mississippi Mills puppets

Almonte's own Noreen Young has created more than 50 puppets of Mississippi Mills' residents. Noreen is one of Canada's most revered puppeteers and has...

Wrenches and Ladles

by Rosemary Leach This past Saturday I was standing beside a gurney. Across from us stood a tall woman, Arabic ancestry. She wore a baseball shirt...

Blair Paul workshop: “Painting the Early Spring Landscape II”

Don't miss the "Painting the Early Spring Landscape II" workshop at the Mill of Kintail Gatehouse, Mississippi Mills Ontario. This is an acrylic painting workshop...
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