Children needed for Oliver!

Laurencekirk Amateur Musical Society are about to start auditioning and rehearsing for their next production OLIVER! that will be performed from the 24th – 28th June 2014 in the St Laurence Hall. We are currently looking for children aged 9 – 15 years old...

Guests from around the UK celebrate Burns Night

Laurencekirk Burns Appreciation Group held their sixteenth Annual Burns Supper in Mearns Academy on Saturday night and were entertained to an thoroughly enjoyable evening of speeches and musical entertainment. Over 100 people attended the event to celebrate the birth...

Heritage Club members reminisce

The January meeting of the Howe o’ the Mearns Heritage Club took place on 22nd and was as usual well attended. Mike Robson had been unable to arrange a guest speaker, so challenged the members to come prepared to present some of their own experiences from days...

Report on future of Academy Site

At a public meeting held in the Academy on 15th January, Scott Leitch and Simpson Buglass of Halliday Fraser Munro and Graham and Sibbald gave a report on the options for the site. The preferred option is to create premises to support expansion of existing businesses...

Mearns Volunteers needed to help older people

The Mearns & Coastal Healthy Living Network which works in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations to deliver important local services to older people is finding it difficult to continue to meet demand for its services due to a shortage of...

What do you know about Northhill POW camp?

There has been a request on our Facebook page for information on the World War II prisoner of war camp at Northhill (Now Northhill Park) which lay between Laurencekirk and Auchenblae and was the only such camp in the area. The Howe o’ the Mearns Heritage Club...
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