Local memorial hockey fund looking for applicants
The Marty Brayman Kids Hockey Fund is looking for children to sponsor for this year’s hockey season. The Fund was created in memory of...
Branding and your neighbourhood jail
by Jim Bertram
What would come to mind to you if I were to write the words “Big Ben”, “Eiffel Tower”, or “Jewel on the...
Steve Clark talks about the proposed prison
The NG Times put some questions to local M.P.P., Steve Clark, following the announcement that a new prison, the Greater Ottawa Correctional Facility, would...
Sudden Impact
by Craig Stevenson
The imposition of a correction facility on Kemptville’s agricultural borderlands demands a tough and creative response from municipal officials. The suddenness of...
Update from Mayor Nancy Peckford
Next Steps regarding the Announcement of a Provincial Correctional Complex in North Grenville
Over the past few weeks, I have been listening to the community...
Expanded Covid-19 testing in Kemptville and region
Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark announced today a three-part strategy to increase the availability of COVID-19 testing across the region.
“With the...
North Grenville in good standing, despite COVID-19
North Grenville CAO, Gary Dyke, presented a detailed report to council at their meeting last week, outlining the impact of COVID-19 on the Municipality....
North Grenville looks north to process organic waste
North Grenville is in the process of finding a processor to take the Municipality’s organic waste. At the council meeting on September 1, council...
Requiem for the New Horizons Club
by Shirley Price
In 1982, a group of retired persons living in the Burritts Rapids village and area decided to start a club for seniors...
Ursa Meyer continues on road to recovery
The North Grenville community has been rallying around twenty-year-old Ursa Meyer for the last few months after she suffered a sudden stroke at the...