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Carleton Place is the first in North America to host this 160-metre record

An embroidered cloth 160.5 metres long, stitched...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz: August 29 2026

ANSWERS A tuk tuk is a motorized...

Motorcycle riding gear for sale

Olympia motorcycle riding suit. Excellent condition. Size...

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Presentation on spreading of municipal waste on agricultural land

On Tuesday evening, August 25th, we had a chance to present in front of council to discuss the spreading of municipal waste on agricultural land bordering the Indian River....

Thank you

On Saturday Evening, July 25th, I spent some time in the filled-to-capacity Almonte Hospital Emergency Room for an increasingly severe abdominal pain which, as I would learn early the...

Thanks to a Caring Community

Many thanks to all those who responded to my article in the Millstone last month on helping a new Syrian refugee family settle in Almonte. A number of generous...
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Mercury – Into A New Year, Backwards

by C.H. Wells Regular readers at The Millstone will likely have seen an article, three months ago, which addressed the astrological implications of a 'Retrograde...

Trash in the townships

The Editor: Recently, perhaps two or three weeks ago, some ignorant slob dumped a half-dozen large refuse bags filled with trash on the side of...

Recent residents happy to call Mississippi Mills home

Dear Edith, Brent and the Millstone team, We moved to Almonte in October 2014. There are many, many reasons why we’re so happy to be...

Reader follows up on Wild Parsnip

Re the article on wild parsnip by Mr Fowler, I found a very apt description of the plant and its edibility (yes!) in an...

A Grand Boondoggle!

By John Fowler My dictionary describes a “boondoggle as a project funded by the government that is of no real value to the community or...

The problem of littering

There is no doubt that littering is a habitual practice for many and a serious problem in Mississippi Mills. Everywhere you go, you see...

Things We Must Not Forget

by C. H. Wells "War Is Hell" That famous phrase is attributed to US Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman, though it is unlikely he was...

Reader comments on newspaper election endorsements

To The Editor: A recent article on The Millstone's site objects to the endorsement of one party over another in The Ottawa Citizen during the...

Reader objects to editorial endorsements

Today’s Ottawa Citizen came out with an editorial endorsement of a political party (in this case Harper’s Conservatives). I have protested this meddling in...

The Niquab Issue – Showing Face in a Democracy

Dear Editor: Prime Minister Harper wants to force some women to show their faces in Citizenship ceremonies, but at political meetings and national leaders’ debates...

Reader urges MPs in large ridings to spend more time visiting constituents

by Phil Somers, South Frontenac Inspired by comments from numerous residents of the former federal riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, I developed a petition to...

Reader concerned about dangerous driving on March Road

Something has to be done about the March Road commute before someone is killed. Too many impatient drivers are taking unnecessary risk at passing even...

Another reader misses progressive government

Dear Editor, Like Fern (September 12 letter), I miss a progressive federal government too. PROGRESSVE,  adjective:  favouring, advocating, or implementing social reform or new ideas. Alas, we’ve...

A sad summer for our river

Hello Millstone Folks. I was so sad to see what has happened to our river. Was this necessary, or wise? Canoeing by, I could...
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