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A9 Dualling Updates

Some notable developments!
We have now heard from Transport Scotland/Jacobs that their public consultation exhibition about the Community Preferred Route... Read more

Dunkeld House Hotel to Jubilee Bridge Path

Update: Dunkeld House Hotel to Jubilee Bridge path
(NCN 77 & Core Path DUNK/145).
The upgrading works will start on... Read more

The 16th Annual Niel Gow Festival

15th–17th March 2019
The 16th annual Niel Gow Festival will take place over the weekend of 15th–17th March in Dunkeld... Read more

News from The Field

Despite the freezing conditions a growing band of hardy souls have been active at the field on Thursday and Saturday... Read more

Connect … Linking Asheville, North Carolina, USA and Dunkeld & Birnam

I have a confession. I’m writing this piece for the “Connect” column, but I don’t live in Birnam or Dunkeld... Read more

2019 at The Community Orchard

Members of The Community Orchard held their annual planning meeting at the Atholl Arms Hotel at the beginning of February. ... Read more

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Editorial

26-02-2019 Regular Columns

My husband often mentions that he thinks I’m deaf. I can’t work out whether he’s right or if it’s a... Read more

Thought for the Month

26-02-2019 Regular Columns

Is freedom of Conscience and Religion possible?
We are living in a day and age where extremism seems to be... Read more

Notes from a Councillor

26-02-2019 Regular Columns

For those residents who have contacted me over recent weeks and not received a reply, I can only apologise. I... Read more

Editorial

29-01-2019 Regular Columns

Spring is in the air in Dunkeld and Birnam despite the polar vortex having split. There’s a lovely article from... Read more

Thought for the Month

29-01-2019 Regular Columns

February 1st is St Brigid’s Day. According to various rather dubious sources St Brigid was born c 450, an illegitimate... Read more

Notes from a Councillor

29-01-2019 Regular Columns

It seem like no time since I was rushing around in the frenetic activity of Christmas preparations and I am... Read more

Editorial

29-11-2018 Regular Columns

As we move through the darkest time of the year, wondering whether to turn the lights on at barely 3pm... Read more

Thought for the Month

29-11-2018 Regular Columns

I am old enough to remember the days when the biggest excitement with an Advent Calendar was to open the... Read more

Notes from a Councillor

29-11-2018 Regular Columns

Another Christmas edition of the Bridge, it is definitely true that the years go past quicker the older you get... Read more

Editorial

01-11-2018 Regular Columns

Well it may seem a bit odd with all this water falling out of the sky to be talking about... Read more

Thought for the Month

01-11-2018 Regular Columns

‘Lest we forget’
We hear this expression especially in remembrance ceremonies related to past wars. On the 11 minute... Read more

Notes from a Councillor

01-11-2018 Regular Columns

At 11:00 am on November 11th this year it will be exactly 100 years since the end of the First... Read more

Editorial

30-09-2018 Regular Columns

Just the other day I was walking into the Village and thinking how lovely everything was looking. The Orchard was... Read more

Thought for the Month

30-09-2018 Regular Columns

“What is the Church for?”
I recently came across a poem (by Leigh Hunt 1784-1859) in which a man experiences... Read more

Notes from a Councillor

30-09-2018 Regular Columns

The New Community Investment Fund Has Been Launched.
I reported on this previously when the Community Investment Fund was announced... Read more

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