Trans Canada Glass

By Helen Blackburn Creemore holds the distinction for having the first church built when there wasn’t another for miles and miles, not even in Collingwood which was nothing much more than an idea. That was in 1854. How three of its stained glass windows found their...

New editor for the Echo

The Creemore Echo is pleased to welcome Trina Berlo as its new editor beginning the second week of September. Berlo, 39, graduated from Ryerson University in 1998 with a degree in photo arts and segued into the newspaper business the following year while working as...

Celebrating an amazing African adventure

Part-time Dunedin resident Lynn Connell’s African story has been well-documented over the years in the Creemore Echo, and for good reason – what Connell and a dedicated group of fellow volunteers have accomplished with the Majengo Children’s Home in Mto Wa Mbu,...

“Intolerable” author helps My Friend’s House

Collingwood women’s shelter My Friend’s House will hold its second annual Creemore fundraiser at the Station on the Green on Saturday, September 14. While last year’s inaugural event featured local playwright Dan Needles as the keynote speaker, this year the spotlight...

What a Copper Kettle Festival!

Last Saturday’s Copper Kettle Festival was a great end-of-summer party, with the usual march by the Beinn Gorm Highlanders kicking things off. This year featured more classic cars than ever, with over 400 automobiles arranged throughout the town. The day’s beautiful...