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To celebrate the 100th birthday of the Caine’s Corners Section #8 Schoolhouse, its current residents, Mike and Connie Leishman, invite the public to an open house on Saturday, September 28 and [...]

Muriel Day of Creemore is this year’s recipient of the Volunteer of the Year Award at her Local Fair from the GNE/Collingwood Agricultural Society. Day, who was raised on a farm in Banda, has [...]

The GNE’s new Senior Ambassador hopes to get more people involved in the agricultural fair. Creemore resident Nicole Gowan took home the crown on Friday, September 20 after making a speech about [...]

Pipes, traffic cones, road signs, caution tape. Is it art? Ralph Hicks thinks so. Hicks is set to give Creemore a glimpse into his artistic process when he creates – and disassembles – an [...]

With a citizen petition in hand, Doug Measures, Councillor for Ward 1, re-opened the debate about open-air burning in the settlement areas of Creemore, New Lowell, Stayner and Nottawa. Council [...]

Author and musician Dave Bidini has a long tradition of hockey in his work. His latest book, Keon and Me, is no different. Join Bidini for “Bidini, Books and Beer,” at Avening Hall on Sunday, [...]

Soon, you can see seven dead women come to life at Mad Maple Country Inn. The parade of writers, artists, socialites and at least one murderer inhabit the play “Hooked” by Carolyn Smart. On [...]

For the past seven years, singer-songwriter Jason Collett has hosted the variety show he calls his “Basement Revue” at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto. Now, he is about to bring it to Avening. On [...]

Betty Schneider knows what it is like to lose a loved one. After each of her two husbands passed away from cancer, she decided to give back to the community for the support they gave her during [...]

Earlier this month, volunteers for the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) removed more than 750 pounds of garbage from the banks of the Mad River. Now, the NCC is looking for more people to help [...]