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Penne Arrabiata

by Susan Hanna This recipe from Ina Garten...

What is that … Long Beast?

Over the centuries, the scientists who name...

Al Potvin Family Foundation donates $30,000 to local charity

The Al Potvin Family Foundation (APFF) is...

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Fire at Public Works garage Friday night

Mayor Lowry shares this news: Last night, a fire broke out in the Mississippi Mills Public Works Garage when a plow truck caught fire inside the green addition, known as...

Town to receive $3.3 million in housing funding

We received this welcome news from Mayor Lowry: Mississippi Mills will be receiving $3,315,592.80 from the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Housing Accelerator Fund! Mississippi Mills is one of 23 municipalities...

Mayor Lowry awarded King Charles III Coronation Medal

Mississippi Mills Mayor and Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) Chair, Christa Lowry, was recognized as a 2025 recipient of the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal at the ROMA...

Carleton Place Opens Community Labyrinth

 by Bruce Kingsley A place for meditation, contemplation, inspiration and general peace of mind has been officially opened behind the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage...

Almonte Town and Country HouseTour a Huge Success.

The Almonte Town and Country House Tour held on Saturday June 11 was a huge success with more than 600 tickets sold by the...

Operation Goodbye Graffiti in Almonte, Carleton Place

by John FowlerSeveral volunteers turned out Saturday June 10 to work with the OPP to clean up graffiti in Almonte and Carleton Place. The...

Congratulations from Don Newman

Online publishing is not only where print journalism is migrating.  Electronic journalism is heading there too. So trust Val Sears to jump into the...

Congratulations from Charlotte Gray

What a terrific initiative: congratulations to you all for plunging into the maelstrom of local politics, local news, local stories. As Jane Austen discovered,...

Operation Goodbye Graffiti – Volunteers Required – OPP Lanark County Detachment Press Release

  Come help clean up your town and earn community hours! On Saturday June 11, 2011, the Lanark County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in partnership...

Theft from Vehicles – "Lock It or Lose It" Results – OPP Carleton Detachment Press Release

The Carleton Place Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has laid possession of stolen property charges in relation to thefts from vehicles.  On May 22, 2011 at...

Over $3,000,000 shared by Almonte Coffee Club

by Bruce Kingsley  For over 30 years a group from Almonte has met for coffee at the Superior Restaurant at 10:00 a.m. every day of the...

Congratulations from Joe Schlesinger – CBC TV Journalist

Welcome Millstone aborning! In the world of journalism, you are the latest grandchild, full of promise and expectation. As so many news organizations these...

Appleton wetland forest in danger

by Edith Cody-Rice The Almonte dam is drowning the Appleton wetland forest, residents claim. The Almonte dam, built in the 19th century and privately owned by...

Welcome from Editor Val Sears

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Lanark County's first exclusively on-line newspaper:The Millstone. We are told this is the way news and entertainment...

Birds Are Vicious!

Folks (especially many “birders”, as distinct from bird watchers) often have a warm, glowing, anthropomorphic view of birds.  Much of it is just plain...

Almonte General Hospital funds ripped off again.

by Bruce Kingsley For the second time in as many weeks the donation box attached to the leaf compost bin at Al Potvin's house has...

Salmon Farming

by Isaac Hunter Can anyone please tell me the truth?  A major controversy within the outdoor community these days is churning around the farmed salmon industry. Big...

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