Singing our way to literacy   
Posted 13 days ago
Those entering the Barry's Bay and Area Public Library last Saturday might have thought they walked into the wrong building. [more]

Shoreline bylaw passed   
Posted 13 days ago
A new by-law passed by Madawaska Valley Council on Jan. 18 will make the process easier and smoother for property owners wanting to extend their property to include some shoreline. [more]

More fast food for Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards   
Posted 13 days ago
Next summer will bring fresh opportunities for hungry boaters and residents of Round Lake to grab a bite, as new resident Brian Boyd will be opening a hot dog cart at the public dock near St. Casimir's church. [more]

Local teacher takes the reins   
Posted 13 days ago
The kids at Sherwood Public School came back from their Christmas holidays to a familiar face, but in a different place, as Jenny Smith took over as principal on Jan. 4 after returning from maternity leave. [more]

MPPs call for criminal investigation into the Gulick case   
Posted 13 days ago
After years of prolonged legal battles, settlement offers, hounding and general muck-raking, the saga of Gulick Forest Products' battle with the Ministry of Labour continues to take twists and turns. The latest development came on Wednesday, Jan. [more]

Community members gear up for kick-off   
Posted 13 days ago
Keen members of our community are facing a busy time of year as they prepare for Barry's Bays' second annual Relay for Life fundraising event for cancer. There are few people in our world whose lives have not been in touched by cancer. [more]

Expectant mothers meet for education and mutual support   
Posted 13 days ago
The Community Resource Centre in Killaloe is helping expectant mothers meet the daunting challenges they face through a program that offers them the chance to learn more about pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting as they share a meal and trade questions. [more]

New chair, new board, new and expanded directions   
Posted 13 days ago
The Valley Arts Council, the unique and venerable arts organization covering parts of two provinces in the Upper Ottawa Valley, has recently received an injection of new board members, and with it the ideas and possibilities of new visions. [more]

A night fit for a bard   
Posted 13 days ago
In honor of the two-hundred-fifty-first anniversary of the birth of Scottish bard Robert Burns, the kilts, scotch, rolled 'r's and haggis were out in force on Saturday night at the Wilno Tavern. [more]

Local broomball teams get new jerseys   
Posted 13 days ago
Another great way to pass the winter months! Pictured here are the Combermere broomball teams, CO Kids and CO Hawks, sporting new jerseys made possible by donations from the Combermere Free Press and Yantha Backhoe & Trucking Ltd. [more]

Skaters return with a lot of hardware   
Posted 13 days ago
Members of the Barry's Bay Figure Eights skating club returned from the Bonnechere Skate 2010 on Jan. 16 with their arms chock full of new hardware. All in all, the team took home 26 medals: thirteen gold, ten silver and three bronze. [more]

Peewee Grizzlies battle to a tie   
Posted 13 days ago
The Barry's Bay Peewee Grizzlies minor hockey team hosted Pembroke #1 last Wednesday evening and delivered an exciting match that ended in a tie. Pembroke opened the scoring at 7:00 of the first period on a goal by Jesse Thompson. [more]

Lake Traverse Station comes to life   
Posted 13 days ago
It was a project that was about 10 years in the making, but Gwendolyn M. Woermke - "just Gwen," she says - has just had her memoirs of life at the Lake Traverse Canadian National Railways Station in Algonquin Park published. [more]

Full-day kindergarten arrives   
Posted 20 days ago
BY RYAN PAULSEN Staff Reporter Two local schools will be part of the provincial government's new full-day early-learning program, according to a list published last week. Palmer Rapids Public School and St. [more]

Credit card worries, beyond the usual   
Posted 20 days ago
Credit cards are things that, while they may be ubiquitous, and even sometimes seem like a basic necessity, are naturally accompanied by a fair degree of worry. [more]

AECL and Haiti top discussions at MV Council   
Posted 20 days ago
BY RYAN PAULSEN Staff Reporter As the year's business starts to pick up for the Madawaska Valley town council, two issues stood out at Monday's regular meeting: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and the disaster in Haiti. [more]

A month of tips, prizes and crime fighting   
Posted 20 days ago
If you were out at the Paul J. Yakabuski Community Centre last Sunday for the evening skate, you may have noticed the large table almost overflowing with pens, keychains, pencils, licence plate frames and a giant, delicious-looking cake. [more]

Animal Control Officer seeks to re-unite pets and owners   
Posted 20 days ago
Madlyn Plotz is someone who often takes her work home. Nothing unusual about that, you might say – except that she works as the animal control officer for two townships, and the work she may take home are stray dogs. [more]

A hearty breakfast for a good cause   
Posted 20 days ago
Every Sunday since Thanksgiving weekend volunteers from the Township of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan have been busy preparing breakfast in order to raise money for the Raglan Arena Building Fund. The community is responsible for raising one-third of the total cost of the project. [more]

Now that’s hockey!   
Posted 20 days ago
BY RYAN PAULSEN Staff Reporter It was a good weekend to be a hockey fan, particularly one from Barry's Bay. Over the course of four minor-league games, it turned out that the only team capable of pulling off a win against The Bears was. [more]

An offensive Storm with a semi-final finish   
Posted 20 days ago
The International Silver Stick continued last weekend in Forest, Ontario, featuring our very own Valley Storm. Game one was against the Novi Ice Dogs, and saw the Storm take the game by a commanding score of 8-4. [more]

Calling all lumberjacks   
Posted 20 days ago
The 2010 Timberfest Committee has set up a new and unique lumberjack show this year whereby individual woodmen can demonstrate their skills with a chainsaw, a crosscut saw and an axe. [more]

They’re back   
Posted 20 days ago
After a long 8-year hiatus, the Madawaska Valley District High School Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team is back where they belong: on the slopes. The team held their tryout/practice at the Radcliffe Hills Ski Area on Friday, Jan. [more]

Kilts, haggis, pipes and 251 years of Robbie Burns   
Posted 20 days ago
Every year in January people of Scottish ancestry celebrate the life and work of poet Robbie Burns at events where the featured guest is not a person, but a football-shaped sausage called the Haggis. [more]

Knights in shining aprons   
Posted 20 days ago
BY RYAN PAULSEN Staff Reporter On Sunday, Jan. 17, knights from the local Knights of Columbus council hosted a delicious fundraiser at St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church. [more]

A White Christmas makes for a black budget   
Posted 28 days ago
Despite the havoc occasionally wreaked on local highways, there were a great deal of reasons for people to be happy with the amount of snow over the holidays, and not all of them related to a certain Bing Crosby classic. [more]

Mike Murray mourned    
Posted 28 days ago
The Murray clan is mourning the loss of Mike Murray, who died suddenly on Jan. 7. He collapsed at home and was rushed to St. Francis Memorial Hospital in Barry's Bay, but could not be revived. He was 65. [more]

Killaloe-Hagarty-Richards adopts policies to govern volunteer activity   
Posted 28 days ago
At its meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5, the Township Council of Killaloe, Hagarty, and Richards adopted a set of guidelines for dealing with its volunteers. [more]

Barry's Bay This Week gets a new publisher   
Posted 28 days ago
After four years at the helm of Barry's Bay This Week, general manager David Zilstra got a job offer he couldn't refuse; he was asked to run the Barrie Examiner, a daily newspaper serving tens of thousands of readers. [more]

Fatal Motorized Snow Vehicle Collision   
Posted 28 days ago
Officers from the Killaloe Ontario Provincial Police detachment are investigating a single motorized snow vehicle collision that occurred on Lake Clear, near Eganville, Ontario. At approximately 3:30 p. [more]

Valley’s own torch relay kicks off at Valley Manor   
Posted 28 days ago
Madawaska Valley's own homegrown torch runner Dave Shulist is sharing the wealth. Over the next two months, Shulist plans to take the torch on a tour of the area, leaving it on display at local businesses and bringing it to regional schools. [more]

COPKA celebrates improvements to policing   
Posted 28 days ago
At the close of 2009, Co-operative Policing: Killaloe Area (COPKA) Inc., recognizes that many significant changes have been achieved in local policing. COPKA would like to thank the individual OPP officers who have decreased cruiser speed through local towns and villages. [more]

From Palmer Rapids to Queen’s Park   
Posted 28 days ago
To many of us, bitter and jaded as we are at the world of politics, the notion of putting in 10-hour days serving water, fetching photocopies and gathering research findings for MPs and MPPs might be a nightmare scenario, and it definitely wouldn't fit our idea of a 13-year-old's idea of a good [more]

Renfrew County Senior Games   
Posted 28 days ago
The Renfrew County Senior Games with assistance from members of the Deep River Cross-Country Ski Club will be hosting a Nordic ski event at the Deep River Cross-Country Club on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 1:00 p. [more]

Mixed results for MVDHS boys in last week’s B-ball action   
Posted 28 days ago
It was an evening of triumph and defeat for the two MVDHS boys' basketball teams on Thursday, Jan. 7. The junior and senior boys faced off against their counterparts from St. Joseph's High School from Renfrew. [more]

A busy hockey weekend, with mixed results   
Posted 28 days ago
Last weekend the Barry's Bay peewee Kodiaks played two games with frustratingly identical scores. The Kodiaks gave up the first loss on the road in Pembroke on Friday Jan. 8, and didn't fare any better at home against Eganville on Sunday, Jan. [more]

Hits, misses and highlights from 2009   
Posted 28 days ago
Looking forward to a brighter 2010 By Phil Conway "We're back again in 2010" states councilor and Timberfest chair Phil Conway. [more]