Hemmingford Archives exhibit commemorates the ice storm of 1998Yvonne Lewis Langlois2023-01-112023-01-11 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2023-01-112023-01-110 Who can forget those ominous sounds? The crackling branches of trees coated with ice, crashing...
Valley students win big in Lions Club Peace Poster contestYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-12-142022-12-18 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-12-142022-12-180 Grade 6 students in local elementary schools were eager to hear the results of the...
The Valley remembersYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-11-162022-11-15 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-11-162022-11-150 Remebrance Day ceremonies were observed in Huntingdon, Ormstown, and Hemmingford this past week as the...
Cross-country kids go the distance at OESYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-11-022022-11-01 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-11-022022-11-010 Students from the Valley’s elementary schools – Ormstown, Howick, Gault, Heritage, Hemmingford, and Franklin –...
Where are they now? Video game animator has roots in the ValleyYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-11-022022-11-02 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-11-022022-11-020 Like most children of her generation, Kaitlyn Staveley grew up playing video games. “My little...
La Pantry: women with a will to ‘waste not’Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-10-192022-10-18 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-10-192022-10-180 It started last spring as a simple idea. Three women had a conversation about food...
The Woolgathering settles in at PinehillYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-09-212022-09-21 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-09-212022-09-210 Tucked away on a small, wooded farm on route 202 in Hemmingford, the annual Woolgathering...
Women’s Institute celebrates 125 yearsYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-09-212022-09-21 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-09-212022-09-210 As the church bells rang out on September 11 after the 11 a.m. service at...
Motorcycle enthusiasts ride on in to celebrate 30 years of the CVMG RallyYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-08-102022-08-10 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-08-102022-08-100 It was a perfect July day. The sun peeped from behind the clouds from time...
The Durham County Poets celebrate summer with a new albumYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-07-132022-07-12 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-07-132022-07-120 When we visited with the Durham County Poets (DCP) one year ago, they were polishing...
A Soggy farewellYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-292022-06-28 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-292022-06-280 On June 23, Valley schools closed for summer vacation. Staff at Ormstown Elementary gathered on...
June ends, school’s out, students celebrate moving onYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-292022-06-29 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-292022-06-290 This month, schools around the Valley invited students to count down the fast-approaching end of...
Back on track: OES track and fieldYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-152022-06-14 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-152022-06-140 The rain held off and the sun came out for a track meet at...
OES students return to the stageYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-012022-05-31 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-06-012022-05-310 After a two-year hiatus, grade 5 and grade 6 students at Ormstown Elementary School (OES)...
Pop-up garage sale at OES exceeds expectationsYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-05-182022-05-18 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-05-182022-05-180 Ormstown Elementary School (OES) students had high expectations for their pop-up thrift shop, an event...
Invictus games athlete has stories to tellYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-05-042022-05-03 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-05-042022-05-030 Darrell Ling had completed two of his three events at the Invictus Games when the...
OES students create fundraiser for Ukrainian refugeesYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-04-202022-04-19 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-04-202022-04-190 “Knowledge, Truth, Service” is the motto of Ormstown Elementary School (OES), and this sentiment never...
Best-wishes banner sent to Invictus Games athleteYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-03-232022-03-30 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-03-232022-03-300 With the Invictus Games about to begin on April 16 in The Hague, Netherlands, the...
Local animator offers a glimpse into the world of video gamesYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-03-092022-03-30 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-03-092022-03-300 Living in this stressful pandemic world for the past two years, who wouldn’t embrace some...
Nora Johnston: From vegetable boxes to children’s booksYvonne Lewis Langlois2022-01-262022-03-30 by Yvonne Lewis Langlois2022-01-262022-03-300 Somewhere, tucked away in the woods of Elgin, Nora Johnston works on writing another book....