Community News

GALETTA – A group or residents opposed to the $650 million Fitzroy Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project proposed for the corner of Galetta Side and Homesteaders roads met for the first time July 3 to plan a course of action.

FITZROY HARBOUR – A long-standing tradition at Fitzroy Provincial Park, last Thursday (July 4) the Concerts in the Park series kicked-off under the clouds and was able to wrap up before the rain fell as another season got underway.

WEST CARLETON – Last year, West Carleton residents were pumped for a post-COVID Canada Day, but the weather had other ideas.

WEST CARLETON – The 1st West Carleton Beavers ended the programming year Monday (June 24) celebrating its 50th anniversary and by smashing a pinata.

ARNPRIOR – It was part book signing, part Peer and Trauma Support Systems team reunion for Fitzroy Harbour’s Syd Gravel last week, an author who focuses on the mental health of emergency responders.

WEST CARLETON – A man who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D Day as a boy, returned to West Carleton as a hero, and from there, amongst a long list of accolades, grew up to become a groundbreaking veterinarian and the mayor of the township, Dr. Roland ‘Roly’ Armitage passed away Wednesday, June 19 at the age of 99.

CARP – The Carp Fair Truck and Tractor Pull is a popular event, when organizers are able to host it. And this year, organizers pulled it off without a hitch.

CARP – For Corkery’s Andrea Conahan-Cruz, 17, applying for a pageant was just a new experience to try.

WEST CARLETON – One thing Paula Farmer didn’t know 15 years ago was her love of knitting was about to take on a life of its own.

CARP – With staff, dignitaries, the media and several guests squeezed in to the narrow hall outside the Bank of Canada vault within the Diefenbunker, those in attendance got a feel of what life might be like in the military bunker if it was ever needed during the decades long Cold War.