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For sale: Saddle, Star Trek VHS tapes. fridge

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

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

What started off as any other day,...

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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John Dunn's Stories

Lanark Lit Writing Competition

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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,...
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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

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,...

Rural schools of Ramsay

by Marilyn Snedden Due to the response to “The Rural Schools of Ramsay”, Archives Lanark has published another 50 books which are selling fast. If...

‘Superior’ sign on Mill Street restored

by Brent Eades Lea-Anne Solomonian from the Town's Beautification Committee wrote to tell me that the owners of the Superior Restaurant on Mill Street have...

Movies on the Mississippi finishes a successful first season

Hub Hospice Palliative Care is pleased to announce that its first season of Movies on the Mississippi has been a success! Working with the...

General Fine Craft, Art & Design Summer exhibition schedule

June, July and August feature stellar new exhibitions by 3 artists with unique perspectives on art-making. Please join us for the Openings each month, which...
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