Barrhead News

The Barrhead and District Chamber of Commerce hopes to play Santa Claus to a few lucky individuals while at the same time encouraging would be shoppers to spend their money in Barrhead through its Holiday Shop Local Campaign.

There is a chance a flight school operator will be moving to Barrhead.

It has become an annual tradition.

Canada’s assisted dying legislation just might be the most significant piece of legislation Arnold Viersen will ever be a part of, no matter how long he serves as a Member of Parliament.

For more than a quarter century, the Barrhead Royal Canadian Legion Branch 75 has been honouring the deceased members of Canada’s Armed forces by placing a memorial on the gravesites of those who have served in Canada’s Armed Forces.

County of Barrhead public works assistant supt. Ken Hove says the municipality is down to one plow truck for the next few weeks.

Citing what she described as a health-professional related crisis in 2007, Barrhead resident Rita Lyster wants town and county council to take a more active role in a committee for the rural physician action plan [RPAP].

“Did you always want to be Mayor? What is the hardest part about your job?” Those were just two of the questions fielded by mayor Gerry St. Pierre at a special Q&A with Barrhead Elementary School Grade 6 students Nov. 2. The 9 a.m.

Barrhead firefighters responded to an emergency situation at the town’s aquatic centre. The call, which came in at 7:57 a.m. Oct. 24, was for assistance in stabilizing one of the Town of Barrhead public works’ Genie S-4 lift machines.

The town and county have failed to come to a recreation agreement. Barrhead town councillors first broke the news during their regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct.