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“Signs of the Time” by Egils Rozenbergs exhibiting at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

A new year signals a new exhibit...

For Sale: Pacsafe EXP45 Anti-Theft Carry-on Travel Pack

Value new - $350. Used once. Selling for...

Judy MacDonald — obituary

MacDonald, Judy (nee LeClaire) Of Almonte, Ontario, in...

Arts & Culture

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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“Signs of the Time” by Egils Rozenbergs exhibiting at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

A new year signals a new exhibit at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (MVTM). “Signs of the Time” by award-winning Latvian artist, Egils Rozenbergs, will be on display from...

Auditions for a play with a difference

On April 26,  2025, Friends of the Mississippi Mills Public Library will be presenting playwright Jackie Bennett’s original play “Get What You Need” as a play reading.  There are...

Team Bob by Sara Jane O’Neill – Lanark Lit, First Runner, Up Adults 30+ category

Produced by Almonte Readers & Writers, the Lanark Lit Writing Competition launched in April of 2024 and set out to connect with local writers of all ages to offer...
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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

Civilization by Niall Ferguson – Book Review

Niall Ferguson is a writer with sweeping ideas, As with the broad sweep of his book the Ascent of Money, in his new book...

Neil Carleton’s stunning nature studies in acrylic

Two Beeches and a Hemlock Beech Leaves Yellow Birch Bark Under The Hand Lens Leaf Motif 2 Photos and Paintings © Neil Carleton

Ode to a Snow White Laundry

by Lorey Miller A few months ago, I read a front-page story in a local paper here in Carleton Place, featuring a story about...

Mill Street Books celebrates Independent’s Day

On Saturday, October 15,independent booksellers all across the country celebrated Canadian Booksellers Association Independents’ Day—a day designed to promote the importance of locally owned...

Do you have an unfinished screenplay? Can you commit to writing 10 pages every 2 weeks?

Three Ottawa-area screenwriters are resuming their screenwriting group and seek 3-4 new members. Our goals are to:1. have regular deadlines, thereby propelling the script...

Concert, Literary Event, and Book Launch of Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate

An Almonte Celtfest 2012 fund-raiser, The McGee Band and Prof. David Wilson presents a superb show that uniquely combines powerful emotion, creativity in music...

David A. Wilson and the McGee Band: Concert, Literary Event, and Book Launch of Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate – Sunday...

An Almonte Celtfest 2012 fund-raiser, The McGee Band and Prof. David Wilson presents a superb show that uniquely combines powerful emotion, creativity in music...

The Mississippi Mills Ladies’ Relaxed Reading Club

by Noreen Young   The Mississippi Mills Ladies’ Relaxed Reading Club is only one of many book clubs in Almonte. The Relaxed Ladies don’t take themselves...

First Annual Taste of the Arts Potluck a modest success

 by Edith Cody-Rice   Almonte's first annual Taste of the Arts Potluck, held at the Old Town Hall on Saturday evening was a modest success....

Book Club at Mill Street Books September 28

Mill Street Books invites you to join its  “once in a while book club for people who can’t commit” at the store on September 28 at...

Poem In Memory of Elsie Caroline Tosh, a Coleman Island resident

Mississippi Mills receives $26,000 grant to fund first phase of cultural assessment.

by Edith Cody-Rice The Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture has granted $26,000 to Mississippi Mills to help fund a cultural assessment. The funds were...

Stompin’ Tom Connors launched his career in Carleton Place

by Lyle Dillabough The year was 1967. Canada's Centennial Year. A time to celebrate the past. A time for new beginnings. And it was also...

Aaron Francis' summer Soulpepper experience

by Noreen Young  For a talented young person whose passion is acting and the theatre, what could be sweeter than to be chosen one of...
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