Heritage Club members reminisce

Jan 24, 2014 | AB30

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

Jan 17, 2014 | AB30

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

Jan 13, 2014 | AB30

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?

Dec 17, 2013 | AB30

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...

A90 Junction video presents case for a flyover

Oct 25, 2013 | AB30, Laurencekirk

A new video highlighting the dangers, anxieties and economic damage of the A90 junction has been added to YouTube. Produced by Peter Wolsey of Eyeline Media and Laurencekirk Villages in Control, it is aimed at showing the powers-that-be why a flyover is so desperately...

Towering over the Howe

Oct 6, 2013 | AB30

Deciding whether wind turbines will have a negative visual impact on their surroundings is widely debated. This depends where they are placed and where you view them from. So there will be an almost infinite range of views at each location. A site visit would really...
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