Recommended reading: From the Ashes, a memoir from Jesse Thistle
What are you reading? is a common question especially in this COVID times when many people have more time for
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Arts
Celebrate Family Literacy Day with the Champlain Library
The Champlain Library is celebrating Family Literacy Day on January 27 to help raise awareness about the importance of reading
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Argenteuil’s Toolbox Music releases first album of songs inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic
Argenteuil band Toolbox Music has released its first album ‘Confined ‘ – a collection of songs inspired by and recorded
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Author Frances Itani sits in on virtual Hawkesbury Library Book Club meeting to discuss “Tell,” answer questions
At book club meetings, members usually discuss a book they have just read, sharing their opinions and often, their thinking
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Shades of Hollywood North in Alexandria
Residents of Alexandria may be starting to wonder if the area is about to become Eastern Ontario’s version of Hollywood
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Le Chenail receives $20,000 grant
A local cultural venue is receiving funding to withstand the financial pressures of the pandemic. The Le Chenail Cultural Centre
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Hometown snapshots: Vankleek Hill is magic to Samme Putzel
“It’s really the embodiment of home, sweet home,” is how Samme Putzel describes Vankleek Hill. She was the partner of
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Pandemic led 14-year-old Sophie Côté to write and publish first book, The Scavenger Lords
Sophie Côté wanted to be a writer someday but was not planning to write a novel just yet. But, in
Read moreHometown snapshots: Sylvie Bouchard discovered arts community
Artist Sylvie Bouchard knew she had found a home when she attended a vernissage for The Houses of Vankleek Hill,
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Hometown snapshots: “Vankleek Hill is where I belong,” says Reenie Marx
“Vankleek Hill is the place where I belong, where I feel I fit,” says Reenie Marx. She and her husband
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