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Officers from the Lanark County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have received several calls regarding a door-to-door collection scam going on over the past few days in the Perth area. Residents are reporting a white male, with...
Maple syrup season is right around the corner, and the Lanark & District Maple Syrup Producers’ Association (LDMSPA) is getting ready to kick the season off right, with a Tapping Out Party on Saturday, March 9, 2019. This annual event is hosted...
Maple syrup producers in the Lanark & District area gathered at the Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church in Perth on Saturday, January 26, for the Lanark & District Maple Syrup Producers’ Association’s (LDMSPA) Information Day and Annual General...
It’s become routine now. A dozen or so members and supporters of the Maberly Fair Board trooped into courtroom 2 at the town of Perth Courthouse on Monday morning at 9:30, just like they have on five previous occasions since last September. The...
After 12 years of touring with the critically acclaimed Sheesham, Lotus and ’Son, including last year’s trek around the British Isles and Holland, Teilhard Frost is taking some time to explore life as a solo artist. He was in Maberly Saturday...
Members of the Maberly Fair Board were in the Town of Perth Court on Monday morning (January 21st) for the fifth appearance by Bonnie Palmer, the former Treasurer of the Fair, on charges of fraud over $5,000. They had been told that Palmer, who...
McDonalds Corners Elphin Recreation & Arts (MERA) is proud to have Richard Hutton & Barb Sohn for our February Art Exhibition in Dean Hall. The vernissage will be held on Sunday February 3rd from 2-4 pm. Everyone is welcome. Please visit...
The Peoples Party of Canada, which was formed a few months ago by Maxime Bernier has established a riding association in Lanark Frontenac Kingston. They are looking for a candidate to run in the Federal election which is slated for October of this...
For 19 years, the Blue Skies Fiddle Orchestra has been playing a ‘Little Christmas’ concert in January and last Sunday it once again filled the Maberly Hall with people and music. Joined by the Lanark Fiddlers Guild, the group played a...
On Friday, December 14, GREC’s Indigenous Studies class welcomed Christine Craig to their classroom to present a workshop as part of their participation in the Great Canoe Journey. Ms. Craig took the students through a presentation in which she...
Officers from the Lanark County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in conjunction with Traffic Collision Investigators are assisting the Office of the Coroner in investigating a fatal, single Motorized Snow Vehicle (MSV) collision...
On Friday, December 14, GREC’s Indigenous Studies class welcomed Christine Craig to their classroom to present a workshop as part of their participation in the Great Canoe Journey. Ms. Craig took the students through a presentation in which she...
“The Blue Skies Community Fiddle Orchestra” directed by Cindy McCall is an all ages group of 50+ fiddlers, with guitar, percussion, whistle, viola, cello, bass and flute accompaniment. They will perform some of their recently perfected...
If upon hearing the phrase, “Men's Shed”, your mind calls up images of shirtless, longhaired men, sitting in a circle, not so rhythmically banging on drums, while others dance ecstatically within it, you aren't seeing the right picture....
John A. Macdonald didn’t have to deal with it. Neither did William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau or even Stephen Harper. But, in this, the 21st Century, everyone is having to deal with social media, and politicians are no...
At the turn of the millennium, if you stumbled into a pub in Ottawa on St. Patrick’s Day or most any Friday night, you may have seen and heard the Riverthieves. At that time they were an “Ottawa Valley and East Coast style party band, sort of a...
Paul Pospisil, Susan Munro, Gordon Patterson & Walter Downs all turned 80 this year and are still extremely active on the Maberly Fair Board. Maberly Fair has had a banner year all things considered. Maberly Agricultural Board/Fair is strictly a...
The new Reeve of Tay Valley will be former Deputy Reeve Brian Campbell. He received 1581 votes. Former Deputy Reeve Susan Freeman was second with 1234 votes and incumbent Reeve Keteh Kerr finished a distant third with 597 votes. In the race for...
A number of letters to the editor have been published in the Frontenac News in recent weeks about Judy Farrell, a member of Tay Valley Council who was the subject of an investigation by a third-party investigation into allegations that she harassed...
The Tay Valley, Meet the Candidates event last week at Glen Tay Public School could have provided some fireworks given the controversy surrounding Councilor Judy Farrell being sanctioned for what Council decided was inappropriate harassment of staff...
Life can be so unfair. We’ve all felt that at times, whether reacting to global news, local tragedy or personal setbacks. What keeps us going is our collective humanity – knowing that whatever happens we are not alone, there will always be some...
The Blue Jeans Classical music series is proud to announce the concert of the talented duo of Gertrude Létourneau, flutist and Catherine Donkin, pianist, on Sunday, October 14th at 2pm at the MERA Schoolhouse in McDonald’s Corners. Ms. Donkin is...
It was a beautiful and warm, sunny day, as people filed into the Maberly Hall this past Sunday, to attend one of the Festival of Small Halls concerts. On the bill was our own Blue Skies Community Fiddle Orchestra (who use this very hall as a...
The theme for the Maberly Fair this year (its 136th edition) was All About Cows — Everything But the Moo. And one of the more popular events featured what else — cows. “Cattle are more than just food,” said Maberly Agricultural Society board...
Perth – Saturday, September 8 is the date for the 2nd-Annual Lanark North Leeds Parkinson SuperWalk, which again will be held at Conlon Farm, 109 Smith Drive in Perth, starting at 10am. The event will be held rain or shine with music, food, demos...
This Labour Day Weekend, get ready for 40 artists to converge behind Fall River Restaurant on HWY 7 in Maberly and create the annual Sundance Artisan Show. Celebrating their 12th year on the Fall River Restaurant festival grounds, Sundance Artisan...
We are three months away from municipal elections and stories abound about Tay Valley Township, many of which can be found in Kelly Egan’s article in the July 13 Ottawa Citizen. To wit, Councilor Judy Farrell is “the one who’s been harassed...
One of the more “celestial” fundraisers in the area for the past several years has been the Maberly Fair’s Pie in the Sky event. It’s a rather simple concept, really. First, you go and buy a pie to support the Fair, and then you get your...
Lanark Frontenac Kingston NDP candidate Ramsey Hart received some unexpected media exposure last week when he was identified by Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford as an NDP star candidate and said that his candidacy demonstrates that...
MERA is please to announce the latest concert of their Blue Jeans Classical music series on Sunday, May 20th at 2:00 pm. Trio Corventano is a classical music ensemble which features local-born musician, Dakota (Cody) Martin. As a young...
Paul Pospisil, president of the Maberly Agricultural Society, was optimistic last Saturday morning as the 26th annual Maberly Maple Syrup Festival was getting underway. “We’re blessed with the weather holding,” he said. Outside, one of the...
Anthony Fritz knows all too well what what addiction is like. “Five years ago, I was breaking up with the mother of my two children (ages 6 and 3),” he said. “I didn’t have the coping skills. “It started with wine, then beers, then shots...
MERA is proud to announce a concert featuring Máire Ní Chathasaigh on the harp and Chris Newman, guitar, on Wednesday, May 2nd at 7:00 PM. The Irish Times proclaimed them “the finest Celtic duo in the world.” The virtuoso partnership of...
Ramsey Hart will be the candidate of the New Democratic Party for Lanark Frontenac Kingston (LFK) in the provincial election on June 7th. The nomination meeting took place at the Maberly Community Hall on Saturday, April 7. Hart is the Executive...
Blankets, rugs, towels, scarves and bags of various patterns and colour combinations adorn the walls of the big room at MERA (McDonalds Corners-Elphin Recreation and Arts) on this particular Saturday. Master Weaver Ellen Good and her cohort, Wendy...
Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of an infected tick. Since the 1990’s, Ontario has seen an increase and expansion of blacklegged tick populations and in the incidence of Lyme Disease, particularly in eastern...
If you like show tunes, then the Tay Valley Community Choir has the concert for you called “On With The Show”. Under the inspired direction of Rebecca Worden and piano accompaniment of Mary Lou Carroll, the choir will present a showcase of songs...
The MERA School House weavers will be exhibiting their work at MERA in McDonalds Corners April 7 – April 28. On display will be a range of woven items that demonstrate weaving techniques in practical items and visual delights. Amongst the many...
The Lanark Frontenac Kingston (LFK) Ontario New Democratic Party is holding their nomination meeting this Saturday, from 1-4pm at the Maberly Community Hall at 180 Maberly Road, just north of Hwy. 7. The party has approved the candidacy of Ramsey...
Green Party Provincial Leader Mike Schreiner helped launch the campaign of Lanark Frontenac Kingston candidate Anita Payne at a meet and greet stopover in Perth on Monday morning. Shreiner, who has been the party leader since 2009, is the Green...
On Friday, fifteen North Addington students travelled to St Lawrence College to compete at the Limestone District Skills Competition. This competition is based on the students’ proficiencies in various skilled trades and the following students...
The sun poured in through the windows of the schoolhouse on March 11 for the first in a series of a Sunday afternoon spring concert series taking place at MERA in McDonalds Corners. The hall was full as Clan Hannigan took to the stage to play mostly...
MPP Randy Hillier might owe his 4 year old grandson a day at an amusement park. When asked if he had attended his party’s leadership convention on Saturday, Hillier said he had a previous commitment, his grandson’s 4th birthday party. By staying...
They had their dancin’ boots on at the Hall in Maberly Saturday night as a packed house do-se-doed and balanced their way around the room to some rousin’ fiddle tunes. This is a semi-regular event but a lack of regular schedule doesn’t seem to...
The ever shifting fortunes of Ontario Conservative Party are making the news again, and local MPP Randy Hillier has taken on the role of attacker in chief against former party leader Patrick Brown. Hillier was one of the first MPP’s to insist that...
On Sunday, March 11 at 2:00 pm the Clan Hannigan is performing at MERA. This is an intergenerational family band based out of Baltimore Ontario that takes traditional Irish music and blends it with elements of Jazz, Pop, and other folk traditions,...
The 4th annual Telus Ride For Dad raised about $8,000 for the fight against prostrate cancer Saturday at the Snow Road Snowmobile. Awhile back, organizer Brandon Crain heard about a motorcycle Ride For Dad on the radio. “I don’t have any...
Highland artists Greta Mcdonald, Deb Shea and Molly Forsythe join together to reflect the world as they see it in this exhibit running at the Dean Hall in MERA during the month of March. Vernissage to take place March 10th from 1-4 p.m at MERA, 974...
Allegations of sexual harassment against former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown, and of sexual assault against Brown’s friend, former party President Rick Dykstra exposed a wide rift in the party over the last few days. That rift separates the old...
On January 30, Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust is hosting a fun Nature Quiz Night at the Golden Arrow Pub, 71 Foster Street in Perth. This fun evening is a part of the current campaign to raise the funds needed for the stewardship of the...
