Category Archives: Lake 88.1 News
OMA study finds no evidence patients swapped ER visits for virtual
A study led by researchers with the Ontario Medical Association has found no evidence that patients substituted hospital emergency rooms for virtual visits with their family doctor in the first year o...
Jan 23, 2023
Town of Perth set to approve tax, water and sewer hikes
A long discussion on 2023 property tax rates took place at last week's Perth council's committee of the whole meeting. Lake 88's Brian Turner was there and brings us this.
Jan 23, 2023
Community Home Support Lanark County seeking volunteers
Community Home Support Lanark County is looking for some volunteers to help support the people they serve. The group's Suzanne Bourbonnais tells us one area they need help with is drivers. The group i...
Jan 23, 2023
Brooke Wins! Brooke Henderson wins season-opening LPGA event
It didn't take long for Brooke Henderson to register her first win of the LPGA season. She took the season-opening tournament, the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions by three strokes on Su...
Jan 22, 2023
Health Unit offers tips to quit smoking during national non-smoking week
This week is National Non-Smoking Week and the Health Unit is offering help to anyone who wants to quit. Public Health Nurse Debbie McIntyre says it may take many tries to quit, but every one of them ...
Jan 20, 2023
Smiths Falls Police Service makes budget requests
The Smiths Falls Police Service made their presentation among all of the other department heads to Smiths Falls council Tuesday afternoon in a wide-spanning budget meeting. Managers of eight departmen...
Jan 20, 2023
Blakeney Bridge closed for a week beginning Monday for replacement work
Lanark County is closing Blakeney Bridge in Mississippi Mills all of next week (Jan 23) to accommodate drilling required for the foundation design of the new bridge. The bridge consists of three struc...
Jan 20, 2023
No charges for Kingston police officers following SIU investigation
The Special Investigations Unit has concluded an investigation into an incident involving a pair of Kingston Police officers and decided there's no basis to proceed with criminal charges. The report i...
Jan 20, 2023
Federal offender known to frequent Kingston captured
A federal offender known to frequent the Kingston region and elsewhere has been apprehended. As Lake 88 previously reported, Drew Stone went unlawfully at large on January 6th and the Repeat Offender ...
Jan 20, 2023
OSTF calls for action to curb violence in high schools
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation is calling on the province to address violence in and around schools. The union wants the province to provide funding for anti-violence training progr...
Jan 20, 2023
