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• FreewareHome is Mill Village
  Last week, The Globe and Mail needed an expert for an information technology article on freeware, which is computer software offered by ...
• New life for organ recipient
  Dick Wamboldt left a machine last year to hit the open road because an anonymous person agreed to give someone a better life after his or her ...
• Celebrating 100 years of guiding
• Celebrating 100 years of guiding
• Celebrating 100 years of guiding
• Bowater workers now happy over unhappy news
  On Sept. 17, AbitibiBowater Inc. announced production would be reduced by about 50 per cent at the plant. The announcement combined with Bowater ...
• Bowater production cut - permanent or not?
  Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 141 President Courtney Wentzell said the sudden news wasn’t surprising because ...
• Text messaging provides employment solution
  This posed a seemingly insurmountable problem for Brooklyn resident, Nicole Smith, who has been hearing impaired since she was a two-week-old ...
• Cute, cuddly and dangerous
  Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Technician Jamie Brown says people should stop feeding the Red foxes at Beach Meadows Beach. The animals ...
• A Queens County Fair for all
  This is the 129th anniversary of the fair, which runs from Sept. 15-19 at the fair grounds in Caledonia. General Manager Doreen Holdright says, ...
• Ten Mile Park paving
  Construction crews scraped off a section of the highway and, at the request of the Department of Natural Resources Liverpool office, the ...
• A rocky tourism venture
  Region of Queens Municipality Engineering and Works Director, Brad Rowter says in centuries past the majority of the Centennial Park area was ...
• Hurricane damaged Western Head causeway receiving...
  Hurricane Bill washed out a large section of the causeway on Aug. 23. The throughway, which joins two sides of a peninsular loop, is surrounded ...
• Waiting and waiting at Bowater plant
  It was widely predicted before the meeting plant and/or paper machine closings would be announced for the company as a whole soon after the ...
• 3 on 3 Labour Day Basketball Tournament in Liverpool
  The tournament begins 9 a.m. and will be held in Dr. John C. Wickwire School if the weather is bad. Jack Fancy is organizing the tournament on ...
• Carpenters heard on high at Brooklyn Baptist Church
  The church was built in 1872 about five years after a meeting was held in Edmund Starratt’s house in Brooklyn. Trustees Chair, Paul Freeman said, ...
• Port Joli hall remembered at heritage ceremony
  “I danced here many nights. My father said I wore out a lot of shoes so the building means a lot to me. I’m so glad we saved the building.” Her ...
• Canoe festival overflows with good times
• Canoe festival overflows with good times
• Get out of our bay
  Friends members simply want the company out of the water for good. A Cooke Aquaculture spokesperson is responding to the renewed effort, which ...
• The best lumberjacks in Canada coming to Liverpool
  Moyal and Sue Conrad are bringing The Eastern Qualifier and National Timbersports Championship to Privateer Park Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 ...
• Youth Rock at Queens County SeaFest
  SeaFest Youth Rock Committee Co-chair, Ann Westhaver says, “It’s most important to hit those youth/teenage years because those are the kids that ...
• ‘Thornes’ store on hold
  However, D. Jay Fournier of Acropolis Diversities Group says he is hopeful for the future. In the meantime, he is continuing to serve clients ...
• Speculation about Bowater closing not based on fact...
  David Coles’ comments were pure speculation, says CEP Local 141 Union President Courtney Wentzell. Coles was quoted in The Chronicle Herald on ...
• Bowater shuts down for fourth time
  This does not include spares, who are called in as needed. These dates are subject to change according to the orders. This represents the fourth ...
• Queens County a remarkable Dimestore experience
  Producer and Co-Host, Jim Hoey said Queens Co. received their highest ranking. He also wishes to put this in perspective. “We’ve been making our ...
• A lasting Dimestore impression
  The Region of Queens’ Economic Development Department will also benefit from two five to seven minute high quality videos produced to promote the ...
• Nature Conservancy protects Port Joli land
  The announcement was made Aug. 12 after an extensive fundraising drive. Still unspoiled by development, the Port Joli area has long been renowned ...
• Rebuilding the past in Port Medway
  Port Medway Lighthouse Park, and its 1899 lighthouse, was recognized ceremonially Aug. 1 as a municipal heritage site as was the Old Port Medway ...
• Prophet relation in cemetery
  Mack, who was born in Connecticut in 1736, married his second wife Desiah (or Desire) Cahoon in Liverpool in 1766. His first wife died. Mack was ...