Future of Denlethen Woods to be discussed

Local residents are being invited to a meeting on the future of Laurencekirk’s Denlethen Woods. Denlethen owners, the Forestry Commission, are to present their proposed Forest Design Plan to Friends of Denlethen and Laurencekirk Development Trust tomorrow...

Doric Drama at the Dickson Hall

Fleeman Productions staged four one act comedies last Thursday, 30th January. The plays, based on the work of Anton Chekhov, are the work of the late Charles Barron, an Aberdonian who has made a significant contribution to the Doric portfolio in recent decades. The...

National Lottery grant brings Archery club to Mearns

Thanks to a lottery grant of £1800 Mearns Academy have been able to purchase a full set of archery club equipment to maintain their junior club and start a community adult club. The story started 3 years ago when coaches from Links Archers in Montrose were asked...

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...

London Calling for local designer

Local bridal and evening wear designer Lorna Forbes of Exclusively Yours is to show a collection at the world-famous fashion event, London Fashion Week, next month. Her collection, called Rouge et Noir, will feature music of the same name, written by Dundee composer...

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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