Rob and Linda Bruce from Melbourne have made their second visit to the Mearns within two years. Linda (nee Adam) left Laurencekirk in March 1956 with her family for a new life in Australia. When her mother died she realised that her Scottish past was a bit of a...
NFU Mutual Insurance agency in Laurencekirk is currently recruiting for a Customer Services Adviser/ Life Services Adviser. As a Customer Services/Life Services Adviser within our small team, you’ll play a key role in the success of an expanding local business,...
Stonehaven Rotary Club have revealed their campaign to raise funds for the planned new Kidney Dialysis Unit to be built at the Kincardine Community Hospital. This unit will serve all of the communities in The Mearns. It’s called BuY a Brick – see the...
The upcoming Scotland’s Tea Festival will highlight the connections between Sri Lanka and the Scots involved in establishing the Ceylon Tea industry. The focus is firmly on the story of James Taylor, recognised as “The father of Ceylon Tea” in Sri...
The organisers of Scotland’s Tea Festival have announced a wonderful latecomer to the event. Lalith Lenadora, Sri Lankan Tea Master with the East India Company, is to be attending the festival and bringing with him his lifetime’s expertise of tea. Lalith...
Thanks are due once more to Jim Brown and his Mearns Connections committee for organising and delivering another successful festival of local culture at the Grassic Gibbon Centre. The dinner on Friday evening had as its theme the outbreak of World War one. Jim gave a...
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