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For sale: Saddle, Star Trek VHS tapes. fridge

Please call 613-797-9705 if interested in any...

Sell Out Crowd Attends the Almonte Craft Beer Fest

by Edith Cody-Rice  It was a sunny, pleasantly...

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An Artist's Notes

Notes from local artist Eileen Hennemann about her paintings.

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Tunic Show, August 1st, 2026, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

What started off as any other day, getting together with friends, conversations, laughter, discussions on our struggles and then, of course, what each of us is pursuing or dreaming...

Sell Out Crowd Attends the Almonte Craft Beer Fest

by Edith Cody-Rice  It was a sunny, pleasantly warm evening on Friday, July 24 when the parking lot at the Old Town Hall began to fill up with a capacity...

NOREEN YOUNG: DRAWINGS & ILLUSTRATIONS at Sivarulrasa Gallery

An exhibition in support of the Noreen Young Award for the Arts Show dates: August 1 – September 4, 2026 Opening Reception: Sunday August 2, 3pm-5pm From August 1 to September 4,...

An Artist's Notes

Notes from local artist Eileen Hennemann about her paintings.

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...

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice Readers who know Margaret  Atwood's work seem to fall into two general categories. There are those who love her and those who...

Clip Clop: A John Dunn story

A kind of afternoon drowsiness had crept over Irishtown. We passed Barney Lunney's store with the blind down over the front window, crossed the...

Jazz in January!

Last Saturday evening some 100 people were treated to the world class jazz stylings of Herbie’s Hill in the transformed Bean Car showroom.  Our...

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by Rosemary Leach It shocks me that I was once a figure skater. I laugh to think I even won some medals. The 1970s figure skating...

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