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Lawn bowls for sale

Own your own Taylor lawn bowls. One...

Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

I attended the December 2, 2025 public...

Gingery Pork and Snap Pea Stir Fry

by Susan Hanna This recipe from Bon Appetit...

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Calling all new residents to Mississippi Mills

Welcome. It’s so nice to meet you. It can be scary moving to a new town, but rest assured you have chosen wisely—your life is going to change for...

Reader comments on importance of volunteers

I was really pleased to see the News article published on the Mississippi Mills municipal website entitled From the Office of the Mayor – National Volunteer Week – April...

Reader supports heritage status for Pinehurst

I would like to add my support for the recent article advocating "heritage status” for the Pinehurst property. I had no idea this property had such a historic and...
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Almonte resident James Macbeath replies to Enerdu

Background: I am a leader in the world of Whitewater Kayaking… specifically, the founder and director of its largest association, World Kayak. I am...

Pat Vetter remarks at Almonte Old Town Hall meeting re Enerdu Dam project

Almonte / Mississippi Mills is a tourist destination for people from everywhere else to come for an afternoon, or a day, or a weekend,...

James Macbeath enters the Enerdu fray

It is our job to make any hydro project building HARD for them to achieve and continually place hoops they have to crawl through...

Daniel Coates responds to the Enerdu Project

I suggested at the public meeting at the Old Town Hall on Wednesday night, that the two individuals representing Enerdu were very skilled and...

Reaction to public meeting re Enerdu Dam Project at Almonte Old Town Hall on April 11

First, I would like to thank the organizers of the evening and I especially would thank them for not allowing the passions of the...

A hero from A Tale of Two Heroes comments

Mr. Sears, Let me begin by thanking you and all those involved with The Millstone for the excellent work you do in spreading the news...

Orleans resident praises Pat Vetter for raising the Enerdu dam story in the Ottawa Citizen

Almonte resident and B&B owner Pat Vetter received this e-mail today after the publication of the Ottawa Citizen article on the Enerdy dam project....

An open letter to Ottawa Police Chief Bevan

Some of us in Mississippi Mills are wondering why you find it  necessary to have speed traps on the highway just outside our  community...

Liberal candidate signs torn down.

by Edith Cody-Rice Reader Arnie Francis noted during a trip to Arnprior yesterday that all Liberal election  signs along Highway #29 had been hacked in...

The end of the line

By: Lyle Dillabough (the "Ottawa Valley Troubadour")"He stares again, down the railroad tracks,Lookin for something, that's never coming backAnd like his old friends, and...

Talks on the home children at the MVTM enlighten descendants

My husband and I visited the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum on the evening of August 25th to see the British Home Children Memorial Quilt...

Good wishes for the Millstone

As a former resident of Carleton Place, and a former colleague of Val Sears at the Toronto Star, I am delighted by the reappearance...

Not everyone is sad to see the trains depart

It's hard to describe how happy I am now that Canadian Pacific is officially tearing up the rail line between Smith's Falls and Mattawa....

Shocking photos in pro life protest upset local residents

Hi, I hope that your paper will be soon featuring an article discussing the pro-life protest that took place in town today. I was...
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