New Firefighter Memorial Monument Unveiled at Annual Fire Hall Open House
Amongst the light-hearted moments where youngsters mounted fire trucks, experimented with fire hoses and rescue equipment at last month’s Annual Fire Hall Open House was a somber moment as the Cavan Monaghan Fire Department officially unveiled the new Firefighter Memorial monument in front of Fire Station #1. The memorial was established to honour members…
Putting Millbrook on the Map: the Railway Comes to Town
Millbrook Railway Station with Commercial Hotel in the background. By Celia Hunter Ted Rafuse is the Historical Society’s special guest speaker at the Legion Hall on Thursday, November 19. A lifelong student of Canadian railway history, Ted will take us through the beginnings of the Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway that established Millbrook…
OLG Makes Q2 Payments to Host Municipalities
Last month, the township received a quarterly payment in the amount of $60,673 from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming for hosting Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs. This is considerably lower than the equivalent payments for this period in previous years, which were $76,188 in 2025 and $85,055 in 2024. So far, during OLG’s fiscal…
Comment – November 2026
Heading to our Remembrance Day Services each year, we are accompanied by fewer and fewer veterans from our community. This makes it increasingly difficult to keep our promise to our veterans to remember them. Our memories grow dim; most of our veterans are long gone. Many of us have never even met one- what…
An Invitation to the Community from Friendship Force
Friendship Force is a group of folks on the Autism spectrum who enjoy meeting every Tuesday from 1 pm to 4 pm at the CMCC to talk, do crafts, play music and play games and socialize together. We often take local trips where we have had lunch at the airport, attended Petes games at…
Horse Discovery’s Cheri Davidson Recognized with Champion of Mental Health Award
Cheri Davidson with one of her “therapists” at Horse Discovery on her farm south of Millbrook which offers year-round programming that supports mental health. Looking past the barn, there are eight horses in the field beyond, passively grazing until they notice the arrival of someone new. They slowly work their way back to the…