Editor’s Note: Valley residents already experienced this issue closer to home when ScotiaBank closed its Maynooth branch in January 2017, incorporating the business into its Bancroft branch. Branch customers in Hastings Highlands received six months’ notice of that closure. In a recent media release, Cheryl Gallant, MP for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, the …
During the week of January 20 – January 26, 2020, there were 90 calls for service for the Killaloe Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), including the Whitney Detachment. There were twenty-four motor vehicle collisions, of which fifteen were animal related. There were eight domestic disputes, one of which …
From a media release from Renfrew County and District Health Unit: Renfrew County and District Health Unit (RCDHU) advises anyone who received a tattoo from a home-based tattoo operation located on Raglan Street South in Renfrew, Ontario to get tested for bloodborne infections such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C …
From a media release from Renfrew County and District Health Unit: Renfrew County and District Health Unit (RCDHU) is pleased to announce a new seniors’ dental treatment clinic coming to Barry’s Bay in the spring of 2020. Through funding by the Ontario Ministry of Health and working in partnership with …
The Current shares this recent media release from Valley business Placemaking Design: Using the Main Street Revitalization funding received from the Association of Municipalities Ontario, the Township of South Algonquin is developing an updated branding style, a visitors’ map as well as a plan for more consistent township signage. This …
As officials from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) and the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs (OFSC) assemble for the launch of Snowmobile Safety Week (Jan 18-26, 2020), OPP Killaloe Detachment shares the following safe riding snowmobile TIPS, to ensure riders return home safely after each …
During the week of January 13 – January 19, 2020, there were 109 calls for service for the Killaloe Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), including the Whitney Detachment. There were nineteen motor vehicle collisions, of which eight were animal related. There were three domestic disputes, none of which …
While The Current spoke to Madawaska Valley schools personnel protesting in Barry’s Bay today, John Yakabuski, MPP Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke released the following statement: “While parents in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke are frustrated by teacher union escalation every few years, it is unacceptable that union leaders would ramp up strike action and make families across …
Dear Editor, Came across your paper on the internet by accident (now on my bookmarks). Love some of your articles and old photos. I am interested to see more history of the area and residents. Currently, I am trying to put together articles on “Cybulski’s”. Wonder if you would be …
On Saturday January 18, 2020, at approximately 11:45 a.m. members of the Killaloe Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a single vehicle collision involving a snowmobile on the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs (OFSC) Trail B106E, in the Township of South Algonquin. The driver and lone occupant …
During the dates of January 2 to January 5, 2020 there were There were 44 calls for service for the Killaloe Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), including the Whitney Detachment. There were six motor vehicle collisions, four were animal related. There were four domestic disputes and no domestic disputes …
The Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating after Canadian counterfeit notes in $50 and $100 denominations were passed at four area businesses in Pembroke and Laurentian Valley on the evening of January 10, 2020. The investigation is continuing and anyone with information regarding this …
Today, the Honourable Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, announced the government’s plan to offer parents up to $60 per day if strike actions close schools or school-based child care centres. “Our aim has always been to reach a negotiated settlement that keeps kids in class, which we have done successfully …
Ontarians were alarmed earlier this morning by an Emergency Alert regarding “an incident” at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Although the alert specifically said that residents within 10 km of the power station need not take any action, social media was inundated with expressions of concern by residents from all parts …
On January 9, Ontario’s Minister for Education, Stephen Lecce, issued the following statements: Talks with Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association adjourned The Minister’s statement in response to the mediator’s decision to adjourn talks with Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) said, “Union-led escalation to a partial withdrawal of services, including targeting …
