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Love Is in the Air: Calliope women’s choir welcomes spring

Calliope Women’s Choir returns to St. Andrew’s...

55+ Expo, June 4

There’s something for everyone at the 55+...

Popup LITT class, June 17

LIIT class stands for Low-Impact Interval Training. It’s a...

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Mayor Lowry is standing for re-election

Mayor Christa Lowry has sent us this note: April 30, 2026 To the residents of Mississippi Mills: I am proud to share that I am standing for re-election as Mayor of Mississippi...

Alto: Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you?

by Brent Eades What Is Alto? Alto is a planned high-speed rail network running from Quebec City to Toronto, announced in February 2025. Its trains would reach speeds of 300 km/h...

Mississippi Mills takes top honours in Globe and Mail survey

by Edith Cody-Rice On Saturday January 31, the Globe and Mail published a long feature called Canada’s Most Liveable Cities. 454 cities were reviewed and the top 100 were ranked....
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Police remove resident from Council meeting after park outburst

by Brent Eades As reported in the Ottawa Citizen, Almonte resident Mario Coculuzzi was removed from last night's MM Council meeting in handcuffs by the OPP...

OPP seek info on man found dead in Appleton

On Monday, May 1 2017, at approximately 10:00 a.m. Lanark County OPP detachment responded to the village of Appleton where a 50-year-old deceased male was...

Al and Shirley’s composting service shuts down

With great regret, we have closed the compost bin, leaf and burn pile at Union & Carss Street, Almonte due to Al's recent broken...

Tree planted in memory of Bernard Cameron

by Brent Eades Family members, friends and former colleagues of the late Councillor Bernard Cameron gathered behind the post office today to help plant a...

Almonte on CTV list of ‘small Canadian towns worth a visit’

by Brent Eades Well, this is almost getting embarrassing. Once again Almonte appears on a list of top destinations for travellers seeking a lovely and authentic...

Local MPP MacLaren in trouble again

by Brent Eades Jack MacLaren, the Progressive Conservative MPP for Carleton–Mississippi Mills, is being lambasted in the press and by his own party leader after saying that a proposed...

Puppets Up cancelled for 2017

by Brent Eades We have received this sad news from the Board of Directors of Puppets Up. It is with profound regret and no small reluctance...

Celebrating Don Wiles, founder of Almonte Lectures and Learning in Almonte

by Edith Cody-Rice Local residents, library board and staff and Mississippi Mills council members gathered today at the Almonte Public Library to honour Don...

Almonte’s Fabulous Fries owners win on The Price is Right

by Edith Cody-Rice November 30, 2016 was a lucky day for Martin Lacroix and Joel Larocque, owners of the Fabulous Fries Food Truck at...

Christmas comes to Almonte – in February

by Edith Cody-Rice  The Los Angeles Hallmark Channel has descended upon Almonte for a second time to produce a feel good Christmas movie titled A...

Stuart McLean passes away

by Brent Eades Though he wasn't from here, the CBC's remarkable storyteller Stuart McLean left a big imprint on our town when he presented two impressive...

MM gets nearly $500K in grants for park and library upgrades

by Brent Eades Council recently learned it will be receiving $208,010 through the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program, and a further $25,985 in funding through the...

Local resident reports on Women’s March in Washington

#WhyIMarch by Susan Woodley Before I joined 600 other Canadians bussing from Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Windsor to attend the Women’s March on Washington, a journalist...

Minor fire at Levi Home Hardware

Fire results from forklift engine malfunction Mississippi Mills Fire Department responded to a fire at 476 Ottawa Street Monday January 16 at approximately  8:08 a.m....
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