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A devastating fire gutted Deslaurier Custom Cabinets and five other Renfrew
businesses New Year’s Day.
Reporter Cheryl Brink begins a three-part series on her airborne adventures. Over the next few weeks, she will take you along on her journies in the skies via hot air balloon, Cessna 150 airplane and parachute. For more photos and a video, check out Brink's personal blog at http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com.
Winds that reached as high as 123 kilometres per hour around Lake
Ontario and well above 100 km/hr in many parts of Renfrew County, left
Hydro One deluged with calls. By Monday evening, Hydro One had restored power to 145,000 customers.
Arnprior residents and many hundreds of others who knew him
are mourning the death of former Arnprior mayor Leonard Shean, better known as
just plain Len.
Casey Corbin is visiting his native Ottawa
Valley for a pair of
Royal Canadian Legion shows, Dec. 28 in Arnprior and Dec. 29 in Renfrew.
Unusual
circumstances forced Liberals into making quick decision on leadership, say
local officials
It was town council’s goal to keep the 2009 municipal tax levy under
three per cent, they achieved that by passing the 2009 budget last
night with a 2.99 per cent tax increase.
A major Ottawa builder and well-known Arnprior developer has been served with a $6 million class-action lawsuit.
Ottawa Valley Tourist Association board members says it
needs more dollars from Renfrew County to focus on their national capital and
southern Ontario
markets.
Barnet Park Committee hoping for a second straight
successful Trillium Foundation grant to help its volunteer-based organization’s
work on seven-acre property.
A number of local students will be packing their suitcases and hopping
aboard planes this upcoming March Break for a well-deserved vacation,
but the destination for a local group of youth is a far cry from a
tropical resort or beachside theme park.
The Ontario Landowners Association held a rally Monday to
emphasis that “rural Ontario
The dramatic drop in the demand for recyclables should
be taken into account when up to seven municipal partners decide if they should
buy the Beaumen recycling plant in Renfrew, Admaston -Bromley
councillors were told at their Dec. 4 meeting.
With the 66th anniversary of the Almonte train wreck fast approaching, a Pembroke family reflects on the experiences of one of its members, former Arnprior resident Bernadette Leclaire, who was seriously injured in the Dec. 27, 1942 crash, but fought for survival.
Arnprior Jr. B Packers coach Shawn Patrick says he may make some changes after another bad loss on Friday night.
Politicians
say TeleTech workers’ skills may be very marketable in the current economic
climate.
McNab-Braeside Council voted against Mayor Mary Campbell on Dec. 2 and said yes to adopting the township’s official plan.
David C. Onley, a member of the Terry Fox Hall of Fame, has
been a conscientious, respected and respectful advocate for advocacy in the
province.
The incoming warden has a history steeped in politics,
farming, volunteer work and management in the industrial sector.
Author and long-time educator Annette Young, along with artists
Wendi Dawson and Heather White, has a new book, ZuluBear and the Alphabet, the first in a proposed series of 10 books designed to help children learn to read.
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