Category Archives: Lake 88.1 News

We're joined by Perth Fire Services Chief Trevor Choffe and Volunteer Firefighter Madison Hainstock to talk about Iron Maidens, Lanark County Female Firefighting Camp coming up in October. Find out mo...

A familiar name to Lake 88 listeners is on this year' lists of Alumni of Distinction Awards from Algonquin College. Smiths Falls Police Service Constable Aaron Tompkins will receive the Community Serv...

For the first time in 30 years, the LPGA has returned to Cincinnati and Smiths Falls' Brooke Henderson is in the field and among the favourites to contend for the title. The local phenom has had a tre...

Perth council's committee of the whole spoke about a motion to adopt a land acknowledgement statement this week. The statement proposed with input from a Northern Ontario indigenous mayor is: "We resp...

The first day of a blitz monitoring drivers' speed in school and community safety zones shows that some need to make the adjustment to school year driving right away. The OPP reports that Day 1 of the...

Perth will fly the Every Child Matters Flag leading up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th. It was announced in council chambers this week, when Councillor Brock McPhers...

Local COVID-19 related hospitalizations saw a drop yesterday as the health unit released its latest surveillance report. There are three people in hospital down from six on Monday. One is in an ICU, b...

Former MPP Randy Hillier has had his provincial court case involving a "No More Lockdowns" rally in Smiths Falls adjourned until next month. The former Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston member of provincial p...

The idea of stop arm cameras on school buses continues to be kicked around by Lanark County Council as the county looks at ways to enhance safety. County clerk Jasmin Ralph says they've had preliminar...

Lanark County OPP and Crime Stoppers are looking for a video game thief who struck Perth in Carleton Place. It has to do with two thefts from the Shoppers Drug Mart stores in the towns on the morning ...