Community

Wick Players are making good progress on a refurbishment of their base – and in doing so they are “laying the foundation for the future”.

Caithness Seal Rehab & Release has cared for 80 seal pups and juveniles since November 2022.

Community councillors in Wick are eager to see works on the £2.1 million transformation of the town centre get under way.

The Noss Primary School bike train is regularly attracting 100 or more cyclists, with the recent good weather helping to build up numbers.

The new-look John O’Groats Mill is almost ready to be revealed – and members of the local community will be the first to get a glimpse inside.

Young pipe band members from across the county made history as they took part in the inaugural Edinburgh Tartan Parade.

Proponents of the plan found it difficult to articulate the case for the proposal at the local level.

A Caithness artist who has created a masterpiece a year to be awarded to the winner of the Mastermind TV show has made his last trophy.

Links between Caithness and Patagonia have been strengthened after a visit to the county by a direct descendant of a noted 19th-century sheep farmer.

Considerable interest has been shown in taking over a popular tearoom on the North Coast 500 route in Caithness.

Reliability on the Wick/Aberdeen air link was running at up to 90 per cent at the start of this year before dropping to 72 per cent in March.

Wick looks set to benefit from the biggest investment in years with more than £2 million awarded to transform the town centre.

Mervyn Hill from the Nethercliffe Hotel kept up a 30-year sponsorship commitment to Wick Groats when he handed over a new strip to the team.

After running the London Marathon, Julieanne Leslie said “the entire day was amazing” while Fiona Miller declared: “It truly was the best day ever.”

Motorists are facing road closures on the A9 at Latheron because of resurfacing being carried out by BEAR Scotland on behalf of Transport Scotland.

Sarah Ruggins put in an “unbelievable effort” to smash the record for cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End and coming all the way back.

Kimberley Mackay (36), from Wick, has been appointed as a partner at Ralph Sayer, the Edinburgh-based solicitors and estate agents.

Mackays Hotel in Wick is celebrating its 70th year in business with a bumper programme of hotel-hosted food, drink and entertainment events.

A £145,000 upgrade of Wick’s Grizzly Park using Scottish Government funding has been welcomed as “fantastic news for that part of Pulteneytown”.

The Scottish Wildlife Trust, with the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, has announced the return of the Words of the Wild competition.