Highlands police board mulls portable or trailer-mounted speed signs

PERTH - The Lanark Highlands police services board (PSB) is trying to decide if it wants trailer-mounted or portable electronic speeding signs, or if it wants to sign on to another county-wide speed...

End poverty with even welfare paying field?

PERTH - Welfare is a safety net that doesn't support Canadians, but instead binds them in poverty.

Perth police board looks back with fondness on former cop service

PERTH - The Perth Police Service (PPS) hasn’t been in the history books for long, but already town council has been given a lesson on the town’s proud policing past.

Donors make new hospital equipment possible

SMITHS FALLS - Thousands of area residents will be given the gift of sight in the next five years thanks to the recent purchase of hospital equipment needed to conduct cataract surgeries.

Two friends and the fish that came between them

It must have looked like something out of a black-and-white comedy from the silent movie era.

Three men out on the Ottawa; two none too pleased after what recently transpired.  The... ...

MP Brown plans talks to exploit Rideau Canal’s UNESCO designation with tourists

PERTH - The most recent battles over the future of the Rideau Canal may have been fought, but the war is not yet over.

Newcomers in region invited to Newcomer Information Fair in Smiths Falls on May 21

SMITHS FALLS - Information fair in Smiths Falls for newcomers will be held Tuesday.

Fire chief Joel Gorman rings out June 30

SMITHS FALLS - "My time's up," said outgoing Smiths Falls Fire Chief Joel Gorman following news of his retirement effective June 30, 2013.

Blue Wings sold to local business leader

PERTH - The Perth Blue Wings have been sold.

Students hold their pose at tableaux demo

GLEN TAY - Ready, set, vogue!

The maze of poverty

PERTH - Navigating the social welfare maze can be dizzying.

Showing cancer who’s boss at Relay for Life assembly

PERTH - One step at a time.

Big bravo to outstanding students

PERTH - Bravo to the best and brightest.

Mill rate frozen for another year, operations get tighter

SMITHS FALLS - Councillors and town staff wrestled nearly $900,000 out of the 2013 budget this week to meet their commitment to keep the mill rate at 2012 levels for the coming year.

Lanark Highlands’ ATV bylaw nearing completion

LANARK HIGHLANDS - Residents of Lanark Highlands Township appear ready for ATVs on their roads.

911 exception to no cell phone talking while driving law

LANARK HIGHLANDS - Turns out that there is an exception to the no-cell-phone-talking-while-driving rule after all.

Internet fandoms will go down with their ship

PERTH - According to the internet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are dating.

Theobald sentencing hearing scheduling still in flux

PERTH - The defence and Crown in the Bridget Theobald case are trying to work out a deal to get to a sentencing hearing sometime this summer.

Hospital contemplates debt relief campaign

PERTH - Maureen Towaij is putting her money where her hospital is.

Questions still loom as Villa Montague investors take concerns to court

MONTAGUE TOWNSHIP - Municipal representatives aren't turning their backs on the Villa Montague project until the court process regarding the alleged improper use of investors' funds runs its course.