Rotary gets two new members

Two Members joined Laurencekirk and District Rotary Club on Monday evening. Donna Allan of Impact Imaging, Laurencekirk and David Evans of Oil Technics, Gourdon were welcomed to the Club by President Alf Lawrie.

Laurencekirk’s pharmacist retires

Janet Buxton arrived, as Janet Haughs, to manage the Laurencekirk Branch of Charles Michies thirty six years ago.  She soon settled in and found the natives a friendly and only mildly eccentric bunch. The regular consumption of large volumes of medicines seems to be...

Laurencekirk gets electric car charging point

An electric car charging point has been installed at Robson Car Park, Laurencekirk High Street (opposite Clark Photographers). This new facility is believed to be part of a national network to facilitate the wider use of electric vehicles, by having a charging point...

New President of Laurencekirk and District Rotary Club

On Monday evening President Sandra Bartram handed the chain of office to incoming President Alf Lawrie at the Club’s weekly meeting in the Crown Inn. In her valedictory speech she confirmed that the Club had disbursed more than £4,000 to individuals and...

Business Club says Goodbye to Michie’s Janet

Laurencekirk Business Club said goodbye to its longest serving member tonight, Janet Buxton. Janet, who has been pharmacist at Michies the Chemist for almost 36 years, retires in a couple of weeks. Club chairperson Linda Farquharson presented Janet with a necklace and...

Saving Mearns Community Centre – Update

Laurencekirk Villages in Control have been granted permission to proceed to the second stage in their application, in their efforts to save Mearns Community Centre from the axe. When the new academy was planned Councillors had agreed to fund the community part of the...
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