A neighbourhood in the town of Smiths Falls will celebrate the opening of the Sussex/Empress Community House on Saturday, May 25th. Through a steering committee, residents spoke and said they wanted a Community House to bridge services and programs, and service providers with residents.
The Steering Committee’s primary job is to ...
The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville are warning that an arbitration award to the staff at the Maple View Lodge in Athens is going to affect the facility’s budget, and they are looking for ways to generate more money for the facility.
Unresolved issues between the facility and staff ...
A grade 8 student who attends Rideau District High School was slightly bumped by a vehicle after it allegedly failed to stop for a school bus on the morning of May 24th.
It happened at 7:30 at the corner of Highway 15 and Mallen Road in Rideau Lakes and the ...
The Perth man who purchased the old Premiere Movie Theatre in Smiths Falls, John Rivington, reports that the demolition of the building has begun.
They started the evening of May 22, 2013 with some exterior work, and Rivington tells Lake 88 that they are on track to have the theatre ...
Two new faces will join the administration teams at a couple of Lanark County Schools. The Upper Canada District School Board has released its list of principal and vice-principal appointments for the 2013-2014 school year.
Patrick Graveling is taking over as Principal of Beckwith Public School. And Karlene Elliott, has ...
Work should be starting soon on the façade of the Smiths Falls Public Library.
Councilors have accepted a tender worth more than 186 thousand dollars from Perth-based, Roof and Building Services International - a division of Ricardo Roofing.
The work includes replacing pillars and the steps at the front of ...
Lanark County councillors plan to send a resolution to politicians and municipalities asking for support in pushing Bell Canada to strengthen the county’s cell phone coverage areas.
Councillors voted on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 to send the resolution to Scott Reid and Gordon O’Connor, as well as MPPs Randy Hillier ...
Smiths Falls’ 2013 budget passed unanimously last night, hitting the $14.3 million mark for operational expenses.
Though the town’s operational budget is $20,000 less than last year, local taxpayers can still expect a tax increase because municipal property assessments have increased this year. That will amount to $60 a year ...
Both Lanark and Leeds and Grenville Counties will received costing reports from the OPP this month on county-wide policing models.
The counties made separate requests last year for costing, even though some local municipalities showed no interest in looking at county-wide OPP contracts.
Lanark CAO Kurt Greaves says the OPP ...
Algonquins of Ontario will hold three forums, starting this week – including one in Perth -- to discuss a preliminary draft agreement-in-principle on land claims affecting areas of eastern and northern Ontario.
The Algonquins have invited federal MPs, provincial MPPs and municipal representatives whose jurisdictions include land-claims settlement areas to ...
Smiths Falls’ 64–year-old one-time movie theatre will soon be a thing of the past.
The former Premier Cinemas theatre, which opened in the late 1940s, will be demolished in the next two to three weeks.
Perth businessman John Rivington, who has purchased the site from its original owners, says dismantling ...
