STANSTEAD, QC — An 18-year-old man from the border community of Stanstead is headed to Oklahoma later this month to compete at a championship bull riding event. Mirko Martineau has qualified for the International Finals Rodeo (IFR), the championship event of the International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA). The IPRA is the second-largest American rodeo organization,…
STANSTEAD, QC – Eastern Townships writer Ross Murray will release his third collection of humor, A Jerk in Progress, at Black Cat Books in Lennoxville on Sunday, September 15 at 3:00 p.m. Subtitled “Various Nonsense,” the collection features more than 80 columns and essays that originally appeared in The Sherbrooke Record and Life in Quebec…
STANSTEAD, QC — The Sûreté du Québec have located a body in a field off Rue Dufferin in Stanstead. Police say the cause of death is unknown at this time. The body has not been identified yet, but police in the area have been looking for a 70-year-old man who went missing on August 6.…
DERBY LINE — The crowd-pleasing musical Mamma Mia! comes to the Haskell Opera House in Stanstead and Derby Line, on August 9-11 and 16-18. Featuring over 20 songs by the Swedish pop phenomenon ABBA, the musical centers around Sophie, whose dream of a perfect wedding includes her father giving her away. The problem? Sophie doesn’t…
STANSTEAD, QC — A number of local student-athletes were honored for their achievements during a recent athletic assembly at Stanstead College. Patrick Young, grade 12, was a first-time “Major S” winner for senior boys rugby. Emily Willis, grade 12, of Newport, won her first “Major S” for senior girls rugby and her second of the…
STANSTEAD, QC — The Stanstead Journal, an English weekly newspaper published since 1845 in Stanstead, Quebec, published its last weekly edition this week. It was the oldest weekly newspaper in Quebec. In Wednesday’s edition, the paper put out a notice stating that “it is no longer a viable business and no real government help is…
DERBY LINE — Borderline Players is getting ready to present an original comedy by border humorist Ross Murray, All Together Now. The show promises to be a love letter to the Haskell Free Library, life on the line and a resilient local myth. Performances are set for May 10-12 and May 17-19. It’s Labor Day,…
STANSTEAD — The public is invited to attend “This Must Be the Place,” a comedy by American playwright Monk Ferris, being presented by Stanstead College on Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free for all shows. Directed by teacher Nicki Campbell, the production features performances by Stanstead College students:…
DERBY LINE — After a highly successful debut season, Borderline Players will hold auditions for its spring and summer productions on Friday, January 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m and Saturday, January 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the First Universalist Parish Hall in Derby Line. The first show of the season will…
STANSTEAD, QC — A head-on collision just north of the U.S. Border in Stanstead, Quebec, took the life of a 13-year-old boy on Sunday. The tragic accident happened at around 4:00 p.m. on Highway 143, near the intersection of Chemin Curtis. According to the Sûreté du Québec, a car veered into oncoming traffic and crashed…
HOLLAND — A man was injured, and several calves killed after a barn fire broke out late Tuesday morning in Holland. Firefighters were notified at around 11:40 a.m. of the incident at the Champney farm, located on School Road. Cows were seen wandering the area after being herded out of the barn. While trying to…
DERBY LINE — One of the most popular plays of all time, the classic Agatha Christie murder mystery, The Mousetrap, will be showing at the Haskell Opera House October 12-14 and 19-21. This Borderline Players production of The Mousetrap is directed by Thomas Perry, who most recently directed the troupe’s sold-out summer production of Little…
BEEBE — If you ever wanted to try out the sport of curling, now’s your chance. The Border Curling Club is hosting two free Learn to Curl Clinics. Curling is a popular, low-impact, life-long sport for all ages and genders. It’s not weather dependent or cost prohibitive. Clinics will be held Wednesday evening October 3,…
STANSTEAD, QC — Stanstead College Head of School Michael Wolfe joined with Property Committee members Judith Cowen and Ellen Bounsall along with students and faculty this morning to break ground for a new residence exclusively for Grade 12 students. The school says the residence will meet the growing demand for accommodation and provide graduating students…
DERBY LINE — If you like your musicals with a little bite, then you won’t want to miss Borderline Players’ production of Little Shop of Horrors, playing at the Haskell Opera House August 10-12 and 17-19. Based on the 1960 low-budget film of the same name, Little Shop was written by Howard Ashman and composer…
DERBY LINE — Borderline Players, a new theater company registered in Vermont and Quebec, will present Fuddy Meers at the Haskell Opera House stage for four performances on May 11, 12 and 13. Written by American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, Fuddy Meers tells the story of an amnesiac, Claire, who starts each morning with no memory,…
GLOVER — A tractor-trailer burst into flames on I-91 south in Glover this morning. At around 6:45 a.m. police responded to reports of the vehicle fire near mile marker 153. Police say the left rear tires of the flatbed trailer were fully engulfed in flames while parked in the breakdown lane. The truck was detached…
DERBY LINE — Auditions for Borderline Players’ premiere production, Fuddy Meers, will take place on Saturday, January 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the First Universalist Parish Hall in Derby Line. Performances are scheduled for May 4-6 and 11-13, 2018 at the Haskell Opera House. Written by American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, Fuddy Meers tells…
DERBY LINE — The Haskell Opera House recently announced they will host a kid-friendly, free Halloween concert on Sunday, October 29, at 2:00 p.m. The concert includes an introduction of the instruments and several seasonally spooky selections. The highlight of the performance is a narration with music based on the book, “A Symphony of Whales,”…
DERBY LINE — Fiddle and guitar duo Wood and Belsher will return to the Haskell Opera House in Derby Line on Sunday, October 8, for a 7:30 p.m. show. Richard Wood, Prince Edward Island fiddler, artist, composer, and entertainer, has come full circle, not just in his musical career, but from the sheltered innocence as…
DERBY LINE — QNEK Productions will finish their final season with a production of their signature show, Dan Goggin’s Nunsense. The show will run September 15 – 17 at the Haskell Opera House on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Near and dear to many in the area, this show…
NEWPORT — On Monday, Jaimie Monahan, of New York, NY, swam the 25-mile distance on Lake Memphremagog between Newport, Vermont, and Magog, Quebec in 14 hours and 18 minutes. She left the Newport City Dock at 5:53 a.m. under cloudy skies and arrived in Magog as the sun was setting at 8:11 p.m. Winds were…
DERBY LINE — A 40-year-old man from Montreal was recently extradited from Quebec to face multiple federal firearms charges, including exporting firearms from the United States into Canada without a permit through the Haskell Free Library. Authorities say that from July 2010 to April 2011, Alexis Vlachos, 40, of Montreal, working with Annette Wexler and…
STANSTEAD– Mrs. Jeanne Beaudry’s third graders from Derby Elementary School took their classroom across the border this holiday season to learn about the Olympic sport of curling at the Border Curling Club located in Stanstead, QC. “I learned the students were studying the Olympics and Mrs. Beaudry and I thought having them come to the…
DERBY LINE — The trustees of the Haskell Free Library and Opera House recently announced the appointment of Hal Newman of Stanstead, Quebec as the new director of the Haskell Opera House. In keeping with the cross-border nature of the Haskell, Newman was raised in Montreal West and attended university in the United States. After…