While Rosemère mayor Madeleine Leduc says Canada Post caught her off guard when it recently announced the cancellation of door-to-door mail delivery in part of Rosemère, the town will be taking part in a mounting campaign to restore the service.

With all the music industry skill and experience that’s gone into putting together the first recording studio for young people in Rosemère, the chances are good that a few musical hits may be the payoff sometime in the near future.

Bright sunlight shining warmly down on Rosemère’s Charbonneau Park on a frigid February afternoon was seemingly enough to convince a few thousand residents they should come out to the town’s annual winter carnival last Sunday.

Some Deux-Montagnes residents with concerns about cellular antennae atop the steeples of local churches and at one of the city’s largest parks were told by Mayor Denis Martin during city council’s monthly meeting on Feb. 13 that the city has relatively little say in such matters and that their questions should be directed to Industry Canada which oversees the country’s telecommunications.

The Montreal Canadiens hosted last Tuesday February 4th, their 7th annual bursary award ceremony with the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence.

There was something for everyone bold enough to brave the deep cold of a Quebec winter on Jan. 25, when the Deux-Montagnes Lions Club once again staged their annual winter carnival for Deux-Montagnes families in Olympia Park.

(NSN) Officials with the Town of Rosemère are inviting all residents to come out to Charbonneau Park on Sunday Feb. 16 to take part in the seventh annual Rosemère Winter Carnival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A new territorial plan revising shoreline areas of Deux-Montagnes which are most at risk of being flooded by the Rivière-des-Mille-Îles has left officials of the city and even some residents bewildered.

In a variation on that oft-quoted phrase made famous by the late and much maligned U.S. president Richard M. Nixon, the voters of Deux-Montagnes won’t have Denis Joannette “to kick around anymore,” because this was probably Joannette’s last election, according to the defeated mayoralty candidate.

The Town of Rosemère’s newly-elected municipal council was officially sworn into office last Tuesday evening during a reception held at the municipal library. It was attended by relatives and friends of the elected officials, as well as a few invited residents.
For the occasion, the works of a number of local artists were displayed, including many by Tex Dawson who was on hand to wish the returning mayor and her slate of councillors all the best.

(NSN) Elections in two out of three key municipalities on the North Shore recently saw incumbent administrations returned easily to office, but in a third municipality a few independents will be sitting for the next four years with re-elected incumbents.

With little if any evidence of campaign posters to be seen in Deux-Montagnes last week despite an abundance of candidates, former city councillor Denis Joannette who is seeking the mayoralty made an election pledge designed to appeal to many families – the refurbishing of the Central Park chalet.