Former Perth Mayor Lana March honoured as she heads out west
At this week’s Perth town council meeting, Mayor John Fenik and council expressed their thanks to former Mayor Lana March.
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Carleton Place BIA seeks increased advertising funding to help during extended construction period in 2022
Downtown BIA president Mark Hinton made his pitch for increased advertising funding to help cope with the scheduled closure of the central bridge and the reconstruction of Bridge Street in 2022.
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Ocean Wave Fire Company officially now known as Carleton Place Fire Department
At this week’s meeting of Carleton Place council, the final vote was taken on changing the 150-year-old name of the Ocean Wave Fire Company to the Carleton Place Fire Department.
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Long-time volunteer Steve Tennant presented with the 2021 Perth Medal
Mayor John Fenik provided a long list of Steve’s community work and leadership, noting his extensive efforts and successes with the Stewart Park Festival.
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Long-service awards presented to Carleton Place Firefighters
This week Carleton Place Mayor, Doug Black, presided in the town hall’s council chambers for the first time in almost 2 years to present long service awards to members of the fire service.
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After much discussion, Perth adopts COVID-19 vaccination policy
The town of Perth’s COVID-19 vaccination policy was finally passed at this week’s council meeting, but not without more discussion and questions.
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Perth debates COVID-19 vaccination policy
The town of Perth is one step closer to adopting a COVID-19 vaccination policy for staff and council.
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Carleton Place looking at tree-cutting bylaw
At this week’s committee of the whole meeting for Carleton Place council, staff presented a tree-cutting bylaw for review.
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Perth set to replace downtown trees affected by Emerald Ash Borer
In 2016 Perth contracted an arborist to review the health of the ash trees and found a serious infestation of Emerald Ash Borers in 27 trees.
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Fire Department in Carleton Place expected to go through name change – Ocean Wave moniker to live on in new capacity
Changing the name of Carleton Place’s fire service was on the table at council’s committee of the whole on Tuesday.
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