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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

Cindy Thompson named Celtfest Fiddler in Residence

Almonte Celtfest is extremely pleased to announce the selection of Cindy Thompson as the first ever Celtfest Fiddler in Residence.  Creating the position of...

Lanark County ‘One Book, One Community’ program

Librarians in Lanark County are pleased to present the upcoming events for the 2015 One Book, One Community program - a library-initiated project that...

Puppets up! 2015 a success

 by Noreen Young Thanks to our talented puppeteer/performers, our wonderful volunteers, our generous sponsors, and our many attendees, Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival , August...

New at the Mississippi Mills Public Library

Here is just some of what’s new this week.  Ask for any of these titles at either branch. ALMONTE BRANCH Non-Fiction Uniquely Human:  a different way of...

Book Launch: “Lanark County Connections – Memories Among the Maples”

In her latest collection of short stories, author Arlene Stafford-Wilson remains loyal to the past; faithfully reconstructing the rural Ontario of her childhood. She...

Powers of Observation

I got a start observing Nature and things of that like in the summer of the year I turned five.  I was standing by...

New at the Mississippi Mills Public Library

Here is just some of what’s new this week.  Ask for any of these titles at either branch. For tips on how to place...

New memoir teaches readers to ‘Begin Again’

This little red brick schoolhouse SS No 11, Ramsay (located in Appleton, Ontario) was my first initiation into subject matter. I still remember my...

Book launch at Pakenham Fair, August 15

Archives Lanark has published the eighth book in the series of rural schools of Lanark County.  The Rural Schools of Pakenham Township will be...

Exhibition: Katherine McNenly, ‘Quiescence’

KATHERINE MCNENLY: QUIESCENCE still life and portraiture in the realist tradition August 4-30, 2015 Opening: Friday August 7, 7-9pm General Fine Craft, Art & Design 63 Mill Street -...

Artist Blair T. Paul donates works to AGH/Fairview Manor collection

Many Almonte citizens will be aware of the naturalistic landscape paintings of artist Blair T. Paul, a native of Almonte. He currently has an...

The Homestead – a John Dunn story

A stone cairn stands close to the heart of the town of Almonte. Erected on the lawn in front of the complex housing the...

Can you host a puppeteer celebrity?

Puppets Up is into countdown mode, and billeting coordinator Glenda Jones is sincerely hoping the puppeteers will not be relegated to sleeping in the...

Pakenham Picnics

by Wendy Passmore-Godfrey I grew up in Ottawa and some of my clearest memories are of family drives over the dirt roads of rural Ontario,...
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