UNICEF Universal Children’s Day at Mearns Academy

To celebrate UNICEF Universal Children’s Day, Mearns Academy held a range of activities to support the Rights of the Child on Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th November. All week cupcakes were sold, 300 in total, selling out every day going down a treat! There were...

Heritage Club hear railway tales and local history news

At the monthly Heritage Club meeting in the Burgh Buildings on Wednesday evening the members welcomed Dr Mike Mitchell and Colin Barr. Mike is a native of the Mearns who has enjoyed a diverse career in public transport culminating as Director General of Transport for...

Laurencekirk tree vanishes in autumn mist

One for the Road? We take the large deciduous trees for granted but when Dr Johnson and James Boswell passed through the east of Scotland – including Laurencekirk – in the 1770s, Johnson commented that having travelled from Berwick to Peterhead he had not...

Big Plans for Laurencekirk?

In April, community groups Laurencekirk Development Trust and Laurencekirk Villages in Control, in co-operation with Mearns Community Council, presented a long-term “Vision Plan” for the development of Laurencekirk over the next thirty years. At the meeting were local...

Staff required for Laurencekirk Out of School Club

Laurencekirk Out of School Club, which runs a very busy Breakfast Club and After School Club, are looking for the following staff : Deputy/Assistant Manager Level 4 SVQ Childcare Practitioner Level 3 SVQ or working towards any of these levels. Also looking to recruit...
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