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The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is continuing its investigation after a 19-year-old woman was caught in a coyote foothold trap while walking her dog last week.

Krystle Morrow and her border collie, Koby, were walking along a familiar snowmobile trail not far from their Calypso Street home when they became ensnared in foothold traps that had been set to trap coyotes.

Some of the most delicious and renowned goat products are being produced right in our own backyard.

The Skotidakis Goat Farm, located just outside St-Eugene, is a 500-acre family owned and operated farm that has been producing fine dairy products for 35 years.

Family patriarch Peter Skotidakis purchased the farm in 1975 and started his dream project with only 20 goats.

The Blueberry Hill Bistro may be best known for its dinner menu and seemingly endless wine list, but owner Chris Williams is hoping to make a mark in the local music scene by hosting a weekly live music event every Wednesday evening.

Alexandria songstress Shannon Hardy took the stage in front of a capacity crowd last Wednesday, armed only with her guitar and her powerful voice.

The 2009-2010 season has not been kind to the Hawkesbury Hawks, but if their last home game of the season was a preview of things to come, the future looks bright for the Junior "A" squad.

Nearly 300 fans poured into the Robert Hartley Sports Complex on Friday, March 5 to pay homage to their hometown Hawks, who thrilled the crowd with a 2-0 shutout of the visiting Carleton Place Canadians.

The Better Business Bureau is warning businesses to be wary of what appear to be invoices for ad space in the familiar, locally distributed, yellow pages directories.
Many businesses across the province and the country have received these invoices. The BBB warns that these invoices are actually solicitations for listings in alternative business directories that differ from the well-known yellow pages.
In fact, the BBB states, these alternative directories may not be that widely distributed, can be of little or no value to advertisers, or may never be published at all.

The town has kept its promise and won't be raising taxes this year, after council voted in favour of adopting the 2010 budget at a council meeting held Monday, March 8.

Mayor Jeanne Charlebois promised that, if she is re-elected, she will make sure budget documents are made available to members of the media and the public from now on.

"I know it's important and if I am still here, it will happen," she commented.

The province of Ontario's plan to form tourism regions to change the face and future of tourism is not sitting well with the United Counties of Prescott-Russell.

In early 2009, the provincial government commissioned a study called the Ontario Tourism Competitiveness Study, which resulted in a draft report entitled Discovering Ontario: A Report on the Future of Tourism.