Cheerleading Club Draws Young Athletes
Two young athletes from Millbrook South Cavan School have returned from a weekend Cheerleading competition in Ottawa where they faced off against teams from across Canada and some from the US. They are members of a club called Solar Cheerleading, which operates out of Champions Gymnastics on Lansdowne Street West in Cavan Monaghan. It…
New Fire Hall Now Serving the Community
It has been a long wait, but the much-anticipated new Fire Hall is now operational. There are still boxes to unpack and some final touches to complete, but ambulances and fire trucks are now responding to calls for service from this new facility, which replaces the facility on King Street that has been serving…
New Elementary School Coming To Millbrook
The Ontario government is investing $24.2 million for a new Towerhill North Neighbourhood Elementary School. Laurie Scott, MPP for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, announced funding for the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board project to help hard working families in Millbrook. This will support the creation of 481 elementary student spaces and 73 licensed child care…
Celebrating Heritage Week with a Local Flair
The Millbrook-Cavan Historical Society invites the community to celebrate some of our own on February 21. Our special guest speakers include 4th Line Theatre creator and founder Robert Winslow, and Joanne Rowland along with Jo-Ellen Brydon who together brought a wildly successful coffee house scene to Millbrook in the 1990s known as the Give-a-Hoot…
OLG Issues Q3 Gaming Revenue Payment to Township
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation provided a payment of $62,118 (OLG) last month as its third quarter payment to the municipality for hosting Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs. So far, during OLG’s fiscal year (April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025), Cavan Monaghan has received $234,901. Since the gaming site opened in November 1999,…
Letter to the Editor – February 2025
I personally want to thank all of the volunteer fire fighters, both present and past for their service. It is a very stressful and sometimes dangerous job they do that is an essential benefit to all that live in our entire town- ship. Most people want to hope they will never need the valuable…