Philippe Morin

Hawkesbury’s Christmas parade took place on December 5 and hundreds of families lined Main Street to see the floats and marching bands.
This year’s parade benefited from seasonalyl warm weather, and one didn’t even need mittens to keep warm. However, there were plenty of Santa tuques. 
Philippe Morin photos

A farmhouse in East Hawkesbury was severely vandalized in recent months and spray-painted with the message, "Solar: not on prime farm land."

The farmhouse is on land purchased in mid-July by Solaris Energy Partners Inc., an Ottawa-based company which sold the property to a larger developer, Enfinity Canada, in September.

The damage, reported to Hawkesbury police by Enfinity on October 16, is estimated at more than $25,000.

It’s no secret that the economy hasn’t been strong in Hawkesbury this past year.
For staff at the Prescott-Russell Community Development Corporation, that means increased demands for grants, loans and consultations.
On November 20, the centre held a press conference to announce its allocation of funding for the next three years.

Canada is facing an increasingly competitive marketplace for manufacturing, and it's becoming very expensive to keep up in today's world.

The proof is a $1 million investment at ELPA industries in L'Orignal, which now has a new giant-size industrial lathe.

Carl Hungerbuehler, owner of ELPA, said the new machine will allow the company to bid on new types of contracts, such as building parts for wind turbines.

This picture shows Quigley the black Lab, getting an unexpected kiss from two ducks in Grenville Sur La Rouge.

It was taken by Debbie Brunning, and sent our way by Arthur Abbey.

Hawkesbury police arrested two suspects on November 11, after chasing them through a wooded area outside Alfred.

Police say the two men were found driving a stolen car.

They refused to stop for police, and officers chased them on Highway 17.
The suspects then tried to evade police by driving into a corn field east of Alfred on Monte Peladeau Street.

Police say the stolen car immediately got stuck in the mud, and the two men fled on foot.

Officers chased the men on foot through the fields.

It was a sad day for Hawkesbury workers on November 6, as the PGW auto glass plant shut down.

The closure had first been announced on May 8 and at the time of its closing, the PGW plant employed about 160 people.

However in 2005 the plant had 545 employees who made windshields for automobiles.