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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...

Environment

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Decluttering as environmental action

Emma Brown Everything we own will eventually have to go somewhere. How much stuff do you own? Do you ever think about where it will go when you no longer...

Last leaves this year

Thank you to our composting volunteers of this past fall, Pam Steele, Doug Taggart, Jim Dagg, Donna & Bill Treusch, Mike Pitcher, Nick DeBoer and Dave Dittmar. Thank you to...

Climate Dialogues: Sense-making Together

3 Monday evenings in March When: 7:00 pm — 9:15 pm; March 2nd, 16th and 30th, 2026 Where: Mississippi Mills Public Library, Almonte Branch, 155 High St S., side door...
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Pitch-In Time

by Pam Steele Almonte is in serious need of some generous Pitch-In Peeps – that’s you and me – people who will give their time...

Rapids Clubtail dragonfly logo winner announced

A team of approximately thirty Mississippi Mills residents have organized to encourage the preservation of Gomphus Quadricolor - also known as the Rapids Clubtail...

Concern about White Lake trailer park plans

In 2013, the Municipality of Mississippi Mills received an application to significantly expand an older trailer park on Hayes Bay on White Lake near...

Thriving – sustainably – in the long term

by Theresa Peluso Part 4:  Synchronizing the local economy with our natural and social capital In Part 3, I compared Mississippi Mills' environmental performance with that...

Open letter to premier on Endangered Species Act

Premier Kathleen Wynne, Main Legislative Building, Room 281, Queen's Park, Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Re: Bully Bills or Responsible Stewardship? What will be the legacy of your leadership for...

Just what are we spraying on our roadsides?

A true story in five short chapters by Theresa Peluso Ever since the news first surfaced last May that Lanark County was planning to conduct a...

New signs to mark drinking water protection zones

Mississippi and Rideau Watersheds, January 4, 2016 – There will soon be new road signs appearing in some communities in eastern Ontario. These signs...

The other side of the turtle fence

Gretta Bradley The extinction of the dodo bird was so spectacularly quick that it became forever synonymous with the disappearance of anything short lived. The...

MVFN concludes Burnt Lands Alvar campaign

Submitted by Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists The almost year-long efforts of the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (MVFN) to oppose a proposed small development at the...

Roadside weed spraying program to continue

Release from Lanark County Council Council passed a motion to continue a roadside weed spraying program in 2016 for all county roads for two consecutive...

White Lake blue-green algae test results in

The White Lake Preservation Project has received results for the determination of levels of microsystins in the water sample taken from White Lake on...

Almonte’s Holy Name of Mary Catholic School participates in OneWater Education Program

The OCWA OneWater™ Education Program was born in 2014 out of a desire to strengthen and formalize our commitment to water literacy. Working with...

Local “Hit Squad” member is fighting invasive species

Invasive species student on the job in the Mississippi Valley Watershed Invasive species pose a growing threat to Ontario’s biodiversity and cause millions of dollars...

RBC Blue Water supports “Caring for Your Creek” project with the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority

Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) planted a tree at MVCA headquarters to mark RBC Blue Water Day and to announce a new stream study...
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