Highlands needs accounting help

New treasurer Rhonda Whitmarsh will have help from an outside consultant to catch up on Lanark Highlands Township’s backlogged financial issues, including the 2023 and 2024 audits leading into the 2025 budget process.

Fire service looks at positions

Lanark Highlands Township Fire Chief Stephen Rothwell has asked council to approve the hiring of an internal part-time training co-ordinator until July of 2026, with consideration for a full-time fire-prevention officer/community emergency management co-ordinator discussed during 2025 budget deliberations.

OPP charges drivers with impaired

Lanark County OPP officers have charged a Beckwith Township man, a McNab-Braeside Township man and an Ottawa man with impaired driving following a traffic stop and two single-vehicle crashes.

Light display becomes addictive hobby

Duncan Carpenter's family jokingly called him a Grinch, even gifting him a Grinch figurine that sits in the living room of his and his wife Debbie's home on Robertson Drive in Lanark village.