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The CP Holiday Train has released its schedule. It'll be making a pair of local stops on November 28th in Smiths Falls and Perth. The musical act for this stretch of the run are Tyler Shaw and Shawnee...

A ribbon cutting ceremony is set for the end of the month to celebrate the completion of Rideau Lakes Fire Station #2. Following the total loss of the Portland fire station in 2021, the Township commi...

Smiths Falls council voted to support the removal of the heritage easement on the Gallipeau Centre as interest in the sites redevelopment circulates. Originally known as the Rideau Regional Centre, th...

The CT Scanner at the Almonte General Hospital is officially operational. The fully funded $3 million project came through over 2,200 donors. The CT scanner's 360-degree cross-sectional imaging allows...

Rural residents in Ontario will be seeing a bit of a boost in the Carbon Tax Rebates. Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault announced a top up to the rebate. The top up also inc...

Public consultation is now open for several policy amendments to the Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Plan. Proposed policy changes apply to the management of road salt, fuel tanks, agriculture, p...

Rideau Lakes Township won the 2024 EDAC Marketing Awards earlier this month, a national recognition. It was won through their efforts of gathering insight and ideas from the business community on what...

Just over a month into his new role as Deputy Chief of the Smiths Falls Police Service, Chris Kettyle is still learning. Municipal policing has its differences by comparison to provincial, which is wh...

Ramsey Hart is leaving the Table Community Food Centre after 10 years as its executive director. Hart's leaving in the middle of one of the Table's most ambitious projects to date in establishing the ...

Lauren Tiganeli is the first hospital-based midwife at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital. She joined the hospital earlier this summer and became a full-time midwife last month. The hospital...