Small Opening for Potential Baxter Creek’s Adult Lifestyle Community?
It was always part of the plan to develop a small community of adult lifestyle homes on the property that Baxter Creek Golf Club calls home, but the venture has been thwarted by planning regulations. Recent changes to the provincial planning framework have opened a small crack through which a possible development may…
Pandemic Allows Local Couple Time to Launch New Business
Amy Howley has always had a creative bent and her husband Dean loves working with wood. Amy would find inspiration on Pinterest, and ask her husband – can you make this? Of course he could, so he did. One of their first joint creations was a headboard. While shopping for one for their home,…
Clarke’s Café Continues the Family Tradition
The reprieve provided by the pandemic crystallized Jule’s Kitchen owner/operator Julie’s desire to move on from the restaurant she operated for – years in the family-owned building that houses Clarke’s Service Centre, the gas station, the car wash and laundromat. After mulling it over, Mike and Heather Clarke decided to step in and take…
New Vet Joins Peterborough West Animal Hospital
Dr. Katie Richardson knows the area well, having attended Bethany Hills School and later, Lakefield College School. After graduating, she moved to Scotland for post-secondary education, acquiring an undergraduate degree from the university at St. Andrews and then completing her veterinary training in Edinburgh. Her colleague Dr. Alexis Smith who joined the clinic…
An Ideal Opportunity for Learning
The following appeared in a recent newsletter circulated to the members of the Millbrook & Cavan Historical Society: With no chance to gather these days for our regular monthly meetings to learn about aspects of our history, this is an ideal time to take advantage of the free education kit that has been…