I have to say if you missed Millbrook BIA Ladies’ Night August 4, 2016 in beautiful downtown Millbrook, you missed the best Ladies’ Night ever. Bonnie McQuarrie, of Bethany Hills Interiors and Bear Essentials, as part of the Ladies Night Committee, most years chairing this committee, has proven to… Continue reading
Gordon Nomekuz has been farming in this area for over 40 years but this season has presented him with a unique challenge. And it isn’t the drought. “Darnedest thing I ever saw,” Gord says, as we walk through 67 acres of beans, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables. “I planted them… Continue reading
Beginning this September story time is moving away from the typical “story time model”. We are venturing into new territories using the play-based learning model for young children. We will still read a story or two, rhyme along, or sing-a-song, BUT will replace the craft time with play time!… Continue reading
Market vendors Lou and Tamara Sorichetti are brave souls. A week after moving into their farm on Solanum Way outside Pontypool from Ajax last summer, they purchased 14 goats. Theirs is a mixed herd of dairy goats they somehow find the time to milk each day, between Lou’s day job,… Continue reading
Melissa Blakely will be putting on a lot fewer miles in her daily routine beginning this month. After sharing space with Oasis Boutique owner Nancy Fallis in downtown Millbrook for all 13 years of her professional career as a Registered Massage Therapist, Melissa is realizing her dream of setting up… Continue reading
Patrick Stephen was first introduced in this paper in 2014 when at the age of 17 he was awarded a grant from Peterborough Economic Development’s Summer Company program for young entrepreneurs in 2014 for a photography/video business. That year he developed a three year business plan- this young man thinks… Continue reading
At the July 4th Council meeting, Fire Chief Bill Balfour introduced Frank Alaimo, principal of Alaimo Architecture Inc. to introduce the design and costing of a plan for a replacement facility for the aging and inadequate building located on King Street East currently serving the Fire Department. The design was… Continue reading
