Councillor John Mitchell: surgery
Councillor John Mitchell will be holding a surgery on 19th June 2015 from 5.30-6.30 pm at Gala Old House, Galashiels, if anyone wishes to raise any issues with him
Community Council
Community Council minutes are posted on the noticeboards and on the community website here. If you want to contact the Community Council, please contact Jenny Mushlin, CC Secretary on 01578 760297 Councillor John Mitchell is holding a surgery in Stow Town Hall on Friday 22nd May
Stow Community Trust – Spring update
The comment in the previous newsletter that a lease on the building might be negotiated by early spring turned out to be wide of the mark – in a new development, presumably because Network Rail no longer has any use for the building (at one time it was thought that a couple of rooms might […]
Potential loss of ‘Cultural’ Public Amenities
This is an advance warning! For those of us who use and enjoy some of the Cultural/Arts services that are supplied by the Council, SBC have approved a recommendation that some of its community services be transferred from direct Council provision, to delivery via a charitable trust….They are looking to make a budget saving of […]

Exciting visit from Brazil
We are very excited to welcome Nixiwaka Yawanawa from the Brazilian Amazon who will be visiting Stow Primary … ...read more
Update on Stow Park
Councillor Sandy Aitchison has held discussions with Council officials and it is apparent that there is no one solution that can improve the park and that a number of measures will have to be taken to get it back to its old glory. The first step is to look at drainage and investigations will be […]

Community Resilience Plan
The Community Council would like to see if a community resilience plan can be established in Stow. Can you get involved? ...read more
Community Resilience Plan
At a recent public meeting, Fountainhall community discussed making a resilience plan. This is where the community can pull together in bad times; for example , in situations with bad snow, power cuts, flooding, bad accidents, a missing person etc. We have had an excellent response. Our plan is being completed and will be up […]

Community Newsletter: Public Notice
For reasons of logistics, and owing to inflated petrol costs, we are looking to send out e-copies of the community newsletter to rural households in the more remote areas. ...read more
Dog Poo, a plea
Now, it is not the dogs’ fault; the poor things just have to go where they are taken by their owner. But – there have been several recently reported incidents of children getting their feet covered in dog poo on the way to or from school. As with so many things, it is a few […]
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