The Pembroke Regional Hospital is making sure it keeps its foot in the door of the new medical building being constructed by the West Champlain Healthy Community Corporation. The new building will serve many purposes including providing consultation and examination rooms for doctors as well as space for [...]

-Parks and Recreation Director Campbell McKie says he's reviewing his options and isn't indicating whether or not he is leaving a post he's held for over 33 years. Mr. McKie began an extended leave on May 26, but said Friday he couldn't say when that period will end. [...]

The monster boats are back! The 2008 Phoenix Warrior Poker Run will be launching out of Base Petawawa's Jubilee Lodge on Saturday, July 26 with organizers hoping to top the amount they raised last year by $20,000. The fundraiser for the Phoenix Centre for Children and Families [...]

This weekend, military veterans and current serving soldiers will be rolling through the Ottawa Valley to raise money to comfort wounded soldiers who are medically evacuated from Afghanistan. The WIA (Wounded In Action) Ride will be held on Saturday with bikers rolling out of the Royal Canadian Legion [...]

A $25,000 donation from the Pembroke Regional Hospital Auxiliary will go a long way to assist the area's physician recruitment efforts. With a mandate of enhancing health care services to the community, the auxiliary sees this donation as achieving that goal, said past president Sheila Schultz during this [...]

A new federal law that came into effect July 2 seeks to penalize drug impaired and alcohol impaired drivers equally. Bill C-32 puts alcohol and drugs on equal footing for roadside checks for impaired driving by police. Previous to the enactment of Bill C-32, a police officer [...]

Pembroke's only military museum reopened its doors on Canada Day as the city's newest tourist attraction. Located at the Pembroke Armoury on Victoria Street, the 42nd Field Regimental Museum was rededicated by the unit's honourary Lieutenant-Colonel Jim Bryce. On its first day, the museum welcomed 35 visitors, [...]

During its final meeting before the summer break, the Pembroke Regional Hospital Board said farewell to some retiring board members and welcomed some new ones. There were four departures from the board, namely Bob Pilot, Murray Moore, Wendy Grimshaw and Sheila Schultz who, as the former president of [...]

Moms and moms-to-be had a chance to prepare for their new family additions with a one stop shopping opportunity under one roof. The fourth annual Stork Stop Baby and Mom Show was held at the Petawawa Civic Centre recently. Over 30 vendors, representing businesses and child and [...]

The Renfrew County Catholic District School Board said police and child welfare officers investigated incidents in a boys' washroom four years ago, but did not lay charges at the time. Monday that changed, when a former student of St. James Catholic School in Eganville was charged, two months [...]

As one classroom door closes for the summer at Bishop Smith Catholic High School, another opens continents away. Kathrin Winkler, a teacher from Bishop Smith, is on her way to Uganda for a three-week teaching assignment as part of Project Overseas. Project Overseas is a joint venture of [...]

Most of us spend our Friday afternoons watching the clock eagerly awaiting a well-deserved weekend rest. This wasn't the case for a contingent of 15 Home Depot employees who dropped by the Southside Community Centre and set their energies towards erecting a storage shed and playground fence. [...]

-Rain or shine its rodeo time. Rain throughout the weekend didn't stop 6,000 spectators from flocking to the Fort Coulonge Arena for the annual Pontiac Rodeo. A dark cloud loomed overhead for most of Sunday's rodeo final, but the rain held off until the final event. [...]

Drum and dance celebration It is also terribly stupid: mass starvation will create political pressures to make today's problems of failed states -such as Afghanistan -seem picayune by comparison. So, there's the challenge Ottawa and the provincial capitals face: someone must step up to lead the biofuel industry [...]

The identity of the man who drowned Saturday, June 21 in Algonquin Park was released earlier this week. According to the Killaloe detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, Rocky Barosso, 28, of Brampton, Ont. was swimming in Canisbay Lake in the provincial park at 12:30 p. m. when [...]

-A retirement home was evacuated Monday night after smoke filled the facility's ground floor. There were no injuries during the incident which occurred at around 6:15 p. m. at the Country Haven Retirement Home located just east of the village. More than 25 firefighters from the Whitewater [...]

BEACHBURG – Whitewater Region firefighters are trying to determine the cause of a fire which forced the evacuation of the Country Haven Retirement Residence. The alarms sounded around 6:30 p.m. and staff acted quickly to move more than 30 residents outside to safety. County of Renfrew Paramedics [...]

Trevor Richardson couldn't think of a better way to spend a day, playing golf and remembering his old friend Tim Adlam. Mr. Richardson and his wife Kristy along with friends Cliff and Brenda Frieday of Arnprior have participated in the Tim Adlam Wish Foundation golf tournament from the [...]

One day after a group of area residents appeared before Renfrew County council demanding it do something about high-speed internet, the provincial government announced a $30-million broadband investment. The four-year Rural Connections Broadband Program is designed to reduce infrastructure gaps in rural southern Ontario. Although Petawawa Mayor [...]

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