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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...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – June 27, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  The Norwegian Grand Master...

Diana’s Quiz – June 27, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  Who is the Number...

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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

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...

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...

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...

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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