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For sale: Obstacle course for kids

Double slackline, two lengths of 50 ft....

Walter Faraday — obituary

Faraday, Walter Robert May 16, 1935 – June...

Stationary bike for sale

We have a Sunny stationary bike for...

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An Artist's Notes

Notes from local artist Eileen Hennemann about her paintings.

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Celebrating creativity and community: Casey Gayton wins the 2026 Noreen Young Award for the Arts

Puppets Up! is thrilled to share some magical community news. On Friday, June 26, representatives from the festival attended the Almonte District High School graduation to present the second...

Tait McKenzie students curate book list for National Library Collection

Students at R. Tait McKenzie Public School are helping shape a future national library collection, curating a list of Canadian books for a new public space led by Library and Archives Canada...

Join the Almonte Legion Pipe Band — beginner lessons start this October

Have you always been captivated by the sound of bagpipes or the beat of drums? Now’s your chance to learn. The Almonte Legion Pipe Band is welcoming new members...
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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

Resident shares music video highlighting plight of migrants

Nathan Sloniowski sent us this today. Well worth watching. Made in Almonte – Sloop John B, sung and played by Nathan Sloniowski, recorded and co-produced...

Interview with Landria Onkka, author of “The Rooftop Christmas Tree”

As Millstone readers know, a movie called “The Rooftop Christmas Tree” has recently been shooting in Almonte and the area. We caught up via...

Our soup bowls overflowed with generosity!

The Board of the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum and its Executive Director/Curator, Michael Rikley-Lancaster want extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who...

Another movie crew in town

by Brent Eades Yet another movie crew is shooting scenes in Almonte. As of 6 pm Monday evening crews and equipment were set up on Elgin...

Selina Martin CD release event, March 17

Selina Martin invites you to her CD release on Thursday, March 17 at the Mercury Lounge, 56 Byward Market Square in Ottawa. Her show...

Pillars of Light by Jane Johnson – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice  It has been said that literature is the hot truth and history the cold truth. This certainly is the case in this...

Celebrate Local Talent! Claire Hunter CD

Claire Hunter released her first EP Saturday, February 13th in Toronto. Entitled Something Safe, the four-song EP of original material was funded by a...

‘A Good Name for a Pig’: a John Dunn story

Three senators of the Anvil Parliament lived in a cluster of houses near Jimmy Moreau's Creek. Kitchens in all three houses had windows that...

A Conventional Life

by Rosemary Leach “Well, I quit my job,” my friend Victoria tells me as we stepped single file across a crusty snow covered field. “I don’t...

Looking for Reid-Easton family photos

Janet Gosier is looking for photos of JAMES REID (1812-1881) and MARY EASTON (1817-1906) and their children to complete a book called “Canada 150 Series” through...

City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice  Kelley Armstrong is a best selling Canadian author of the thirteen book Women of the Otherworld series, the Nadia Stafford crime novels...

Help send local dance students to perform at Disney World

The Almonte Academy of Dance has the opportunity to send a group of dancers to Disney in Orlando, Florida.  A team of eleven dancers...

“Live From Mississippi Mills, it’s Saturday Night!”

  by Noreen Young There's no doubt about it - it was a lively scene on Saturday night January 16th at the Almonte Old Town Hall...

Movies on the Mississippi announces exciting winter lineup

Hub Hospice Palliative Care is pleased to present our winter 2016 lineup!  Working again with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) we will be...
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