Liz Hildebrandt spends much of her time volunteering, she loves it. The former School Support Counsellor with the Renfrew County and District School Board accepted a transfer from Barry's Bay to Walter Zadow in Arnprior ...

2025 was the first Santa Claus Parade put together by members of the Optimist Club, and to date, the biggest yet. Absent from the role as Float Santa was Dave Fridgen- a decision he had made after 2024's Parade. By Rick ...

One of the all-time favourite Christmas movies is 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street", starring Kris Kringle as Santa Claus. Dave Fridgen's story in Arnprior doesn't go back that far, but his fifty-six years in the...

Local heroes Bubba and Dwight are only early into their second season on YouTube and Facebook, but the pair are breaking new ground by being up front with an extremely important topic. Arnprior has never had an "Out...

In past years, stigmas surrounding mental health have stifled public discussion- and that's enhanced fears about "psychotherapy" and its aims and objectives. Chandan Singh-Beatty is a Registered Psychotherapist...

A crowd of at least 120 Arnpriorites rallied to the cause of the "Save the Grove Again" public information session held Saturday afternoon in the community. Fresh from speaking at that gathering, spokesperson L...

***NOTE: this draft was sent to NWAC, but is similar to what is scheduled to post Sunday night, for anyone who may be reading this with some confusion to the duplication*** Tuesday (July 2nd) on unceded Algonquin Territo...

The end of this week mark the culmination of almost a year's efforts by the Hype Girl Squad's group of four organizers who've put together the Grand Author Takeover in Carleton Place. Tara Tappin, from Grand Rapids, is t...

The Grand Author Takeover happens in a matter of days in Carleton Place. It's a first for an area that has seen its share of romantic Christmas movies, but before movies there were books- and an organizing committee of f...

The Grand Author Takeover comes to Carleton Place February 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Romance Novelist Sarren Scribner, one of nearly three dozen authors who will be attending the event- and one of four on the organizing commi...