Committees of Council – The Business Improvement Area
This is the 3rd in our series explaining the role of the six committees that operate under the umbrella of the municipality. The Millbrook Business Improvement Area (BIA)was formed in 1987 through Municipal By-law. It is a not-for-profit organization that operates under the guidance and direction of a volunteer board of management. There is…
Comment – August 2025
There was a time when our actions were guided by a principle of doing what was right, and there was a general consensus about what that looked like. Clearly the five hockey players who were acquitted of rape last week did not follow that principle, nor did the accuser. As he orchestrates the starving…
Dear Editor – August 2025
As this blistering summer moves towards its seasonal zenith, we regret to have to say that the zucchini and its festival have withered on the vine. After over 20 years (more or less, on and off, dead and then revived again) the Millbrook Zucchini Festival is finally packing it in. It hasn’t been an…
Now & Then – August 2025: Old Wills, Estates and Human Rights
By Dan Bourgeois A little while back I came across a small article in the back pages of the Millbrook-Omemee Reporter of February 17, 1927 titled “Restore Property Rights to Women- Error in Ontario Law Deprived Them of Title Following Marriage.” Apparently, about a year earlier during a revision of the law which included…