Stonehaven & District Community Council are holding their AGM on Tuesday 8th June 2021 at 6.45pm on Skype. The agenda is as follows: Chairperson’s Welcome Roll-call, recording? (AL) 3 Community Council’s Annual Report: Chairperson Bill Watson 4 Consideration and approval of the independently verified Statement of Accounts & proposed budget for the forthcoming year: Treasurer […]
From Kincardine & Mearns CAB – This is National Volunteer Week and Citizens Advice Bureaux in Aberdeenshire are calling for more local people to join their teams of volunteer advisers. The CAB in Stonehaven is part of an Aberdeenshire-wide network of local outreach services, and has been physically closed since the initial lockdown last spring, […]
From Sandra Mcwilliam – AT their recent green opening, Stonehaven Bowling Club also presented an honorary membership to one of their members and opened their new viewing shelter. Duncan Ewing received his honorary membership for all the work he has done at the grounds over many years. Meanwhile the Gordon Pyper stand was opened by […]
Dear Bellman, I would like to clarify quotes attributed to me in a report in The Bellman dated May 12. My comments were made at the community council meeting regarding the application to erect a house on countryside beside the Carron River. I made a point of principle namely, that that IF the community or […]
It’s been a tumultuous seven days at Stonehaven Golf Club. The Pennant team took a major scalp in beating Royal Aberdeen, Erin Herd won the Girls Nett Championship at The Scottish Junior Masters, Callum Steel bravely secured the Handicap Trophy and the Texas Scramble Open resulted in success despite haar setting like jilly over the […]
Lewis Campbell’s sermon at Stonehaven Baptist Church this week focussed on the subject of criticism, or more accurately our response to criticism. This is a topic everybody faces in life to lesser and larger degrees and our reaction can depend on the justification or otherwise of that criticism. Nobody wants to take pelters for something […]
From Allan Cairnduff – STONEHAVEN’S Gardening Club (Hort. Society) is holding its annual plant sale on the Plainstones at 9am tomorrow (Saturday). Plants are £2.50 for a tray of six. If your club or society is holding any event, please email the details to news@thebellman.co.uk
Inspiring Aberdeenshire is one of the council’s biggest annual events. The awards celebrate the achievements and successes of our people across Aberdeenshire who go the extra mile for their communities, often with little or no other official recognition. And when the awards are made on August 26, in a virtual ceremony, there will be a […]
From Live Life Aberdeenshire – Live Life Aberdeenshire’s Youth Music Initiative is running free, fun music making sessions with priority spaces for care experienced children in P6 and P7 across Aberdeenshire. Musicians Jenny Sturgeon and Adam Ross will run sessions which will include making outdoor sound recordings, writing and recording a new song – most […]
One of the delights of playing golf at Stonehaven GC is the variety of conditions you can be faced with in the matter of a few short days. Last weekend we were basking in sunshine, not a breath of wind to trouble us, yet this weekend we found ourselves wearing four layers of clothing to […]