Killaloe library board welcomes new members   
Posted 18 days ago
The Killaloe and District Public Library Board held its last meeting until September and welcomed new board members Skye Farris and Lee Lafonte to the fold. Farris was immediately nominated to the position of secretary and accepted the role. [more]

MV student takes first place in business plan competition    
Posted 18 days ago
Andrew Charbonneau knows how to write a business plan. He proved that last week when he took first place honours for Renfrew County in the Ontario Secondary School Business Plan Competition. [more]

'All I could have dreamed'    
Posted 18 days ago
In May of 1967, the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League clinched the Stanley Cup. Two years later, on May 24, 1969, Grant Neville was ordained as a priest. [more]

Hospital Auxiliary learns about telemedicine    
Posted 18 days ago
The St. Francis Memorial Hospital Auxiliary welcomed guest speaker Susan Coulas to its annual general meeting on June 8. Coulas, who is the hospital’s telemedicine coordinator, was invited to explain how the program works. [more]

Candice Cybulskie wins scholarship    
Posted 18 days ago
Madawaska Valley District High School senior Candice Cybulskie has been selected to receive $4,500 from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation through the Millennium Excellence Award Program. [more]

Track and field in Killaloe    
Posted 18 days ago
Killaloe Public School was abuzz with peewee, bantam and midget athletes trying their best to place in the top three of their event at the annual elementary schools track and field event. [more]

A fine addition to Zurakowski Park   
Posted 18 days ago
The people who make up the Zurakowski Park committee deserve congratulations for coming up with a well-reasoned, affordable and community-oriented plan for the Barry’s Bay landmark. [more]

Kamaniskeg study will look at decline in water quality    
Updated 25 days ago
A Peterborough firm has been hired to undertake an extensive study of the reasons why the quality of the water at the north end of Lake Kamaniskeg is worse than that of the rest of the lake. Council voted 3-2 in favour of hiring Cambium Environmental of Peterborough to undertake the study. [more]

Council passes budget   
Posted 25 days ago
The Township of Madawaska Valley has approved a budget of nearly $6 million for this fiscal year that includes a five per cent reduction in the municipal tax levy. The budget was presented to council in detail at its June 1 regular meeting by Clerk/Treasurer Brenda Sabatine. [more]

KH & R passes budget   
Posted 25 days ago
Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Township announced a decrease to the residential tax bill on a $100,000 assessment. For the township, that decrease is 9.8 per cent; for Killaloe (special rate area), the reduction is 7. [more]

Gazebo planned for Zurakowski Park   
Posted 25 days ago
After being shot down at council back in March, the Barry’s Bay Zurakowski Park project has sprouted a new set of wings. [more]

On track in Killaloe    
Posted 25 days ago
Students in junior and intermediate grades at Killaloe Public School spent Wednesday on the track behind the school, competing in races and field events. [more]

Full lake study is a good idea   
Posted 25 days ago
The margin of approval was narrow, but the Township of Madawaska Valley Council did the right thing last week when it commissioned a full study of water quality problems in Kamaniskeg Lake. [more]

Relay for Life raises $42,000    
Posted 32 days ago
Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. Hundreds of people from around the Madawaska Valley area did just that this past weekend as Barry’s Bay hosted its first Relay for Life event to raise money – and hopes – in the battle against cancer. [more]

MV budget would reduce levy by five per cent   
Posted 32 days ago
Township of Madawaska Valley residents will see the municipal portion of their tax levy reduced by five per cent under the proposed 2009 budget. [more]

Radcliffe ski area lost about $40,000: mayor   
Posted 32 days ago
The Radcliffe Hills ski area lost in the neighbourhood of $40,000 last season but the final financial details on the cost of reopening the facility last December aren’t yet complete, Mayor John Hildebrandt told the mid-May meeting of Township of Madawaska Valley Council. [more]

After the Killing Fields    
Posted 32 days ago
Tim Coulas was scarcely two months into a new job in Cambodia last fall when fate, arriving in the form of an errant Thai taxi, landed him in hospital with severe injuries. [more]

A mark of achievement    
Posted 32 days ago
Taking the time to complete a lengthy application has paid off for Barry’s Bay teen Caiti Finnerty – she has been awarded a scholarship in the amount of $25,000 from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. [more]

NHL's Peter Zezel remembered in Valley    
Posted 32 days ago
NHL centre Peter Zezel, who died May 26 after a long battle with a blood disorder, will always be remembered in the Madawaska Valley for his trip up here two years ago to lend his support to the multicultural hockey tournament. [more]

Leachate treatment raises public concerns    
Posted 39 days ago
Two officials from the Ontario Clean Water Agency appeared before the Township of Madawaska Valley Council last week to address public concerns over the use of the Barry’s Bay wastewater treatment plant to treat leachate from a Hastings County landfill. [more]

Tangle of red tape threatens chip wagon's future   
Posted 39 days ago
A scant two weeks ago, Tim and Kim LaRiviere opened the Wilno Chip Express to great fanfare. [more]

Lumber firm's bid for settlement unsuccessful    
Posted 39 days ago
Gulick Forest Products Ltd. is going to court to fight four Ministry of Labour charges after a pre-trial meeting to discuss a possible out of court settlement of the case was unsuccessful. [more]

Lumber firm's bid for settlement unsuccessful   
Posted 39 days ago
Gulick Forest Products Ltd. is going to court to fight four Ministry of Labour charges after a pre-trial meeting to discuss a possible out of court settlement of the case was unsuccessful. [more]

Two resign from Killaloe public library board   
Posted 39 days ago
Problems continue to inundate the Killaloe and District Public Library board: two members tendered their resignations following the May 12 board meeting. [more]

Principal introduces project to KHR council    
Posted 39 days ago
Parents are often asked to cover about $215 per child in school fees over the elementary school year and, for many, that’s a price that is difficult to manage. St. [more]

Torch Run a great success    
Posted 39 days ago
The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics made its way from the Northern Credit Union to the Barry’s Bay Railway Station Friday afternoon. [more]

Mayor's tough talk was badly needed   
Posted 39 days ago
Mayor Janice Visneskie should be congratulated, not castigated, for setting things straight at the last meeting of the troubled Killaloe and District Public Library Board. Two trustees on the board – Maria Mayville and Bruce Burnett – sent in their resignations after the May 12 meeting. [more]

Launch date of organics program in Madawaska Valley nears    
Posted 46 days ago
About 75 per cent of the Organic Waste Program kits have been delivered to residents in the Township of Madawaska Valley and project manager Tyler Peters of Greenview Environmental Management says he expects everything to be ready for the organics initiative’s official June 1 launch. [more]

Killaloe library passes budget and grievance policy   
Posted 46 days ago
Though the focus of last week’s monthly Killaloe and District Public Library board meeting was the library’s annual budget, it became clear the public still has many questions about the operations of the library and its board. [more]

Student conducts wolf-human research    
Posted 46 days ago
Can humans and wolves co-exist in harmony? John Wall, a Carleton University PhD student, is conducting research into how animals like wolves live in the same area as humans and how they get along. [more]

Soggy but super    
Posted 46 days ago
A cold morning rain meant that Barry’s Bay’s annual Bay Day’s festival got off to a slow start on Saturday. But when the skies cleared up somewhat in the early afternoon, people flocked downtown to check out the sights. [more]

Carrying the torch    
Posted 46 days ago
This Friday, the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Ontario will make its way through Barry’s Bay. The running event has law enforcement officers and athletes raising awareness and funds for Special Olympics programs. [more]

It's all over but the waiting   
Posted 46 days ago
Ontario’s new Green Energy Act passed third reading in the Legislature Thursday by a vote of 59 to 13. And it’s fair to say that never in the field of legislative conflict was so much ballyhoo and promise hustled through so quickly with so little input from so few. [more]

Valley Market marks 150 years    
Posted 53 days ago
As the clock ticked toward 11 a.m. Saturday, the Valley Market in Combermere began to fill with family, friends and previous owners of the store who came out to help its current proprietor, Chris Hicks, celebrate the market’s 150th anniversary. [more]

Dry goods, groceries and a ghost story    
Posted 53 days ago
In the year that Daniel C. Johnson built his general store in Combermere, Charles Dickens first serialized “A Tale Of Two Cities;” British-ruled Canada was locked in a boundary dispute that raised the threat of war with the United States; John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry, Va. [more]

Teen rescues three from frigid lake    
Posted 53 days ago
Larry and Sharon Chippior are justifiably proud of their son Tyler – last Wednesday, the teen rescued three young men from the frigid waters of Carson Lake. [more]

Trivia Night is no small affair    
Posted 53 days ago
What do the Anglican Apostles have over the Toronto Blue Jays? Unlike the Jays of the 1990s, the Apostles were successful in their bid for a three-peat and are once again the champions of the Barry’s Bay Trivia Night. [more]

High school tech students ace competition    
Posted 53 days ago
Madawaska Valley District High School’s construction team has once again won gold at the Options 2009 Skilled Trades Fair in Pembroke on May 1, and another student earned silver in the cabinet making competition. [more]

Big, bold and brassy    
Posted 53 days ago
They came. We listened. They conquered. Many of those who caught the Lycoming College Concert Band’s performance last Thursday night could be spotted emerging from Madawaska Valley District High afterward whistling, snapping their fingers or humming a fresh new tune. [more]

Kicking it up on Kashub Day    
Posted 60 days ago
They danced, they sang, they ate – and one of them kissed a doll’s butt. Hundreds of people flocked to Wilno on Saturday for the Kashub Day Festival and by most accounts, this year’s party, the 11th annual, was a big hit once again. [more]

Workers remembered    
Posted 60 days ago
It has been 25 years since Canadians first began observing a National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job, and that wasn’t the only milestone reached during last week’s ceremony atop Shrine Hill in Wilno. [more]

General meeting held for Rainbow Valley health centre    
Posted 60 days ago
Area community health and social agencies took part in a “health fair” in the Killaloe Public School gymnasium prior to the Rainbow Valley Community Health Centre’s annual general meeting. [more]

Palmer walkathon raises $10,000    
Posted 60 days ago
After weeks of planning, students, parents and other volunteers walked the walk on Saturday, raising more than $10,000 for a new community playground to be erected at Palmer Rapids Public School starting later this month. [more]

Short and low was the way to go    
Posted 60 days ago
The sun was hot and the wind swirled across the field at the George Vanier Catholic School last Monday, hampering the Frisbee throws of students taking part in the elementary schools’ annual Ultimate Frisbee Challenge. [more]

Turning Green   
Posted 60 days ago
Two recent developments have raised serious concerns about the Ontario Liberal government’s Green Energy Act and its impact on the citizens of this province. [more]

Landowners meet for a spirited discussion    
Posted 67 days ago
There were two very different presentations at last week’s Renfrew County Private Landowners meeting in Wilno. One was by Ministry of Natural Resources representatives and one was by Jack MacLaren, president of the Ontario Landowners Association. [more]

A 'clean' sweep of Madawaska Valley    
Posted 67 days ago
Hundreds of bags of garbage – much of it recyclable material – has been removed from Madawaska Valley roadways thanks to the hard work of volunteers who donated their time and energy to clean up their community. [more]

Committee struck to address Madawaska Bridge problem    
Posted 67 days ago
A committee has been formed to devise a strategy for the repair or reconstruction of the Madawaska Bridge, a key link in the region’s snowmobile and recreational trail system and thus an important part of the local economy. [more]

Council okays historic boat exhibit   
Posted 67 days ago
Township of Madawaska Valley Council has given its stamp of approval to plans to preserve and display a relic of commercial steam navigation in this area in Combermere. [more]

Greenfields say goodbye to Valu-Mart    
Posted 67 days ago
It was just shy of 15 years ago today that Jan and Dave Greenfield, newly arrived in the area from Kitchener, took over the Valu-Mart grocery store in Barry’s Bay. On Sunday, they celebrated that anniversary with their retirement. [more]

George the Imposer   
Posted 67 days ago
Government in North America over the last decade or so has been fairly overrun by “czars.” In the United States, they have drug czars, an AIDS czar, a nuclear terror czar – even a marriage czar. [more]

MV's new waste program starts on June 1    
Posted 74 days ago
The day is fast approaching when waste management in the Township of Madawaska Valley will take on a cleaner, greener face. Beginning later this month, township staff will be delivering new “green bins” for organic waste collection to homes and businesses throughout the municipality. [more]

Martha Linton was 'the Queen of Kashub music'    
Posted 74 days ago
Martha Linton – folk singer, raconteur, restaurateur and longtime Barry’s Bay resident – has died at 82. Mrs. Linton passed away on Friday at the Ottawa Heart Institute two days after she underwent open heart surgery. [more]

New mural unveiled in Killaloe    
Posted 74 days ago
Upon entering the council chambers at the Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards municipal office in recent weeks, one couldn’t help but notice sheets of beige paper covering the wall behind the mayor’s chair. [more]

Governor General honours local resident    
Posted 74 days ago
Wilno resident David Shulist is a staunch promoter of multiculturalism and particularly his Kashub heritage. His hard work was recognized last week when it was announced he was the recipient of the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award. [more]

Historic vessel to be remembered in exhibit   
Posted 74 days ago
Plans are afoot to preserve and display a relic of commercial steam navigation in this area at Dennison’s Park in Combermere. [more]

Banquet signals end of minor hockey season    
Posted 74 days ago
It’s officially over. The teams wearing the Barry’s Bay Bears’ jerseys in all divisions said goodbye to the 2008-09 minor hockey season Friday with a banquet at the Paul J. Yakabuski Community Centre. [more]

Council seeks end to Killaloe Library turmoil    
Posted 81 days ago
The Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards council attempted to defuse a volatile situation at the Killaloe Public Library by electing Mayor Janice Visneskie and Councillor Ernie Cybulski to its board. [more]

More volunteers sought for mass cleanup effort   
Posted 81 days ago
Plans for the Saturday, April 25 anti-litter blitz in the Township of Madawaska Valley are in full swing, but there’s still a need for more volunteers for the event, Mayor John Hildebrandt says. [more]

Welcome to new OPP officer    
Posted 81 days ago
The Killaloe/Whitney detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police has welcomed Jean-Michel (JM) Cormier to the fold. The Gatineau native had his first shift on Jan. 18. Const. [more]

MV students off to carpentry competition    
Posted 81 days ago
A year ago, a team of four students – Jordan Genrick, Sheldon Dombroskie, Nick Neuman and Nick Jessup – continued the tradition of carpentry excellence at Madawaska Valley District High School by taking gold at the Options 2008 Skilled Trades Fair in Renfrew; it was the fifth gold medal in six [more]

Midgets storm Tournament of Champions    
Posted 81 days ago
The Valley Storm Major Midgets returned home the victors in this year’s Midget B Tournament of Champions. In Game One, the Storm annihilated Stittsville 7-1. Stittsville opened the scoring at 11:28 of the first period, but was shut down by goalie Brandon Dombroski after that. [more]

Killaloe library needs to turn the page   
Posted 81 days ago
It must be of considerable relief to the many people who love the Killaloe Public Library that the township council has decided to get involved in a long-festering situation involving the library’s board of trustees. [more]

Boards outline staggered bell proposal    
Posted 88 days ago
Representatives from Renfrew County’s two school boards presented the reasons that they’re eyeing a move toward a “staggered bell” school day during a public meeting at Madawaska Valley District High School this past Thursday evening. [more]

'Girls of November' give spring tonic to hospital    
Posted 88 days ago
One of the many programs at St. Francis Memorial Hospital is the Patient Comfort Fund, which assists patients when they find themselves in the Emergency Department or admitted to the hospital unexpectedly. [more]

Support important in battling cancer    
Posted 88 days ago
It’s a nightmare that two in five Canadians face: the diagnosis of cancer. Eleven years ago, Barry’s Bay native Linda Neuman was told she had breast cancer. Next month, she will take part in the Survivors’ Victory Lap at the Relay for Life in Barry’s Bay. [more]

Palmer students set for walkathon    
Posted 88 days ago
With cheers, whoops and some enthusiastic hollering, the kids at Palmer Rapids Public School joined Friday in the drive to raise the money needed to build a new playground. [more]

For the love of the game    
Posted 88 days ago
At the end of her senior year at Madawaska Valley District High School last June, Alix Mullin received awards for outstanding track and field athlete, most valuable player for female hockey and the senior female athlete of the year. [more]

Thunderbirds take Opeongo Heritage Cup    
Posted 94 days ago
For the first time in the four-year history of the Opeongo Heritage Cup, the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn Thunderbirds are the multicultural hockey tournament’s champions, after defeating defending champion Team Irish 4-3 at the Paul J. [more]

Zurakowski Park issues call for support    
Posted 94 days ago
Bloodied but unbowed, members of the Zurakowski Park Committee say they’re not giving up on their quest to erect a small visitor’s centre on the Barry’s Bay site where a statue honouring Avro Arrow test pilot Janusz Zurakowski now stands alongside a 1/4-scale model of the famous jet interceptor. [more]

This Week to publish on Tuesdays   
Posted 94 days ago
Barry’s Bay This Week is moving its publication day to Tuesdays. The measure will take effect for the Tuesday, April 7 issue of the paper. It will entail some deadline changes for customers wishing to place classified or retail advertisements. [more]

Restorative justice program launched    
Posted 94 days ago
Restorative justice, where victims, offenders and supporters can together work through resolutions of harm done, has been around a long, long time in many parts of the world, and this program has now arrived in the Killaloe Ontario Provincial Police detachment. [more]

Our cup runneth over   
Posted 94 days ago
About four years ago, in a small, crowded office at the back of the Paul J. [more]