It was another beautiful weekend for golf at Stonehaven, Saturday in particular offering splendid conditions for Cowie Cup competitors. The season is cranking into gear and this was the first qualifier for the annual Wille Watt trophy, plenty then to play for. The competition was won this week by Roger Smith, a fellow I played […]
Marvellous sunny weather accompanied this week’s Wednesday competitions at Stonehaven Golf Club, it’s a blessing to play golf under blue skies with the sun beating down. An extra ten degrees on the temperature might have been nice but you can’t have everything. The winners are detailed below. For my part I managed a net 65 […]
A HORSE-DRAWN plough is a new feature for Stonehaven’s Burns Memorial Garden. The century-old farming implement was donated by Jim Bruce who hosts a large agricultural heritage collection at his farm just outside Stonehaven. The plough breaks the ground for a project being undertaken by the Horizon Group in conjunction with the Stonehaven Burns (Fatherland) […]
MACKIE Academy Former Pupil’s Rugby Club are seeking community support for their purchase of the park off Forest Drive – so they can make it their home. With 1200 members, including 375 youngsters ranging from tots to U18s, the club is the second largest in Scotland. But it is a club that lost one of […]
Continuing our tour of Stonehaven Golf Course, we turn to the 2nd hole, not one for the faint hearted. This one is kindly sponsored by GT Joinery (who might be kind enough to build me a gallows if I deliver yet another double bogey there this weekend). The second hole at Stonehaven Golf Club, while […]
MACKIE Academy FP Rugby Club’s application for a community asset transfer of the park land off Forest Drive is one of the items on a packed agenda for tomorrow night’s meeting of Stonehaven and District Community Council. The club have been on the hunt for a new playing field since losing its second pitch at […]
A STONEHAVEN man is seeking planning permission in principle for a new home at Riverside Drive along with improvements to the surrounding land. If Mr David Morrison gets the go-ahead for his project, he will build himself a new home adjacent to his current property at Riverside Drive – and offer areas within the surrounding […]
STONEAHAVEN and District Radio Car Club are seeking planning permission for the installation of a replacement off-road track and the erection of fence at their model race track at Mineralwell Park. Since 1979 Stonehaven and District Radio Car Club (SDRCC) has been bringing all the excitement of an F1 track event to the town. The […]
A FORMER bakery premise in Stonehaven could be transformed into a contemporary home complete with sustainable and environmentally friendly features – if plans get the go-ahead. Mr John Ritchie is seeking planning permission for the partial demolition of a redundant bakery and erection of dwellinghouse at a site to the rear Of 68-70 Allardice Street. […]