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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

Susan Delacourt and Robin Sears engage a lively audience at Café Postino

Mill Street Books and The Millstone hosted a successful book launch for Susan Delacourt's new book Shopping for Votes. Susan, an award-winning journalist who...

Where’s the Rosamond Honor Roll? Museum needs your help

by Michael Rikley Lancaster In preparing the current Remembrance Day exhibit, “Almonte Mills at War,” volunteers and staff at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum combed...

Never Go Back by Lee Child – book review

by Amelia Gordon It is certainly easy to understand why readers become addicted to the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Lee Child ( the...

Puppeteer Bence Sarkadi discusses Shakespeare and the puppet stage

by Bence Sarkadi  In an article submitted to the Millstone in August 2013, entitled “Puppeteering Shakespeare”, I talked about the possibilities of adapting Shakespeare to...

Puppets invade Almonte for a tenth year!

Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival returns for its tenth year October 29, 2013 (Mississippi Mills) - Its official, Puppet’s Up! International Puppet Festival will be...

Not your usual book signing: read the book/meet the author – November 13, 2013

The Silent Summer of Kyle McGInley with  Jan Andrews Mill Street Books' Book Club 52 Mill Street, Almonte, ON Wednesday, November 13, 7.00 p.m. Ask local author, Jan Andrews,...

Lanark County chooses the winners at My Town’s Got Talent Finale!

by Fraser Scantlebury The atmosphere was electric on Friday October 25th at the Finale of My Town’s Got Talent, held in the Cafetorium of the...

Shopping for Votes by Susan Delacourt – book review.

In her new book Shopping for Votes, veteran political reporter Susan Delacourt has brought to the fore a significant  and pivotal force in Canadian politics:...

Barb Cotterill exhibits mixed media at Fairview Manor – October 24 – December 10, 2013

Art in the Manor is pleased to present An Exhibition of  Mixed Media by Barbara Cotterill  October 25 to Dec. 10th, 2013 Vernissage,  Friday,  Nov. 1, 2013,...

Lanark County Calendar book launch – November 2, 2013

Handmade Harvest holiday November 2 – 3, 2013 in Almonte!

    Join us in Almonte NEXT WEEKEND for the Holiday 2013 edition of the Handmade Harvest Craft Show. This Saturday and Sunday more than 100 amazing...

Almonte’s General Fine Craft Art and Design featured as top pick in Days Out Ontario

Almonte's General Fine Craft Art and Design on Mill Street is featured as a top pick in Days Out Ontario, for its fine collection...

Kris and Rob Riendeau, publishers of the HUMM are featured in a profile on the Zoomer blog

Author  Linda Seccaspina  has written a laudatory profile of Rob and Kris Riendeau, publisher of the HUMM and of Rona Fraser, their intrepid co-worker.  http://connect.everythingzoomer.com/profiles/blogs/snapshots-of-small-town-main-street-what-makes-a-newspaper-humm.

Son of a Certain Woman – by Wayne Johnston – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice  Wayne Johnston's characters jump from the page the minute you open the cover. That is one of his great talents. He engages...
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