Category Archives: 96.1 myFM Local News
Wind back the clocks to save an hour: daylight savings comes to an end once again
It's that time of year again for the Valley to adjust its clocks, daylight savings time is coming to an end and everybody's weekend gets extended - by an hour. The biannual tradition started at the he...
Oct 31, 2025 Renfrew's clock tower | Mik Horvath/MBC
What's good in Renfrew? Come meet the Wolves and Timberwolves at the myFM Centre this weekend
On Sunday Nov. 2, Renfrew's Jr. A Wolves and Jr. B Timberwolves are inviting the public to meet and mingle with their favourite players on their double-header. The fun starts at 2 p.m., in the myFM Ce...
Oct 30, 2025 Championship banner hung up in the BEI Arena | Mik Horvath/MBC
McDougall Mill Museum is developing digital exhibits and needs the community's help
Glenn Charron, curator and manager of the McDougall Mill Museum, has been busy lately with a modern archival project; digitizing the stories of Renfrew and area. The project is in partnership with Blo...
Oct 30, 2025 Pictured is a railcar which was used by mining crews at the Black Donald Mine | Mik Horvath/MBC
OPP needs help in locating a suspicious man in the Arnprior area
The Renfrew OPP is asking the public to help locate and identify a suspicious man after an incident involving a young girl in McNab/Braeside. Last Friday, a concerned parent contacted the OPP to repor...
Oct 30, 2025 Photo Credit: OPP
Downtown Renfrew celebrates Halloween a week early with Freaky Friday
Last Friday the ghouls and goblins of Raglan St. S arose to fill the night with screams and scares. It was Freaky Friday, an annual event the Downtown Renfrew Business Improvement Area (DRBIA) orchest...
Oct 30, 2025 On Freaky Friday slashers, ghouls, ghosts, goblins and witches flood the street | Mik Horvath/MBC
What's Good in Renfrew? Curlers rock a win for RVH dialysis care
Renfrew Victoria Hospital is getting swept up by the success of their first-ever fundraising bonspiel. The RVH Rocks Bonspiel saw 12 teams enter the ice shed at the Renfrew Curling Rink on Saturday, O...
Oct 29, 2025
What's good in Renfrew? Gourley's Outdoors are calibrating the scales for their upcoming deer contest
Keith Gourley and the crew at Gourley's Outdoors have been very busy lately at their store on Hwy. 132 preparing for the deer season. To kick off the season with a bang Gourley's Outdoors is once agai...
Oct 28, 2025 Last year Gourley's had over 1600 people sign up for the Deer Contest | Mik Horvath/MBC
Ottawa Valley-based Women in Wood celebrates 10th anniversary and national recognition
An Ottawa Valley-based network is celebrating 10 years of connecting passionate women around the world who work in, with, and for the woods. Women in Wood founders Jess Kaknevicius and Lacey Rose met ...
Oct 28, 2025 (Forests Canada photo)
Real flames, real training as mobile fire unit stops in North Algona Wilberforce
A unique opportunity for hands-on training will see the Ottawa Valley's firefighters make the trip to North Algona Wilberforce. The township has been selected to host the Mobile Live Fire Training Uni...
Oct 28, 2025 (Township of North Algona Wilberforce photo)
Jamie Bramburger Fall Classic perpetuates memory of Hockey broadcaster and author
It was exactly a year ago that Jamie Bramburger, in his role of author, visited the Arnprior Museum to discuss his second book, "Sudden Impact" on the Almonte train disaster of 1942. Jamie is of cours...
Oct 28, 2025
