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Recognition for Wick in a UK-wide "placemaking" award scheme has been welcomed as a notable achievement for the town and its regeneration programme.

Volunteers who take elderly or less able people out for leisurely rides in a three-wheeled bike have been given a £1000 boost by a Wick business.

Care home residents in Wick are being treated to evening tours of the towns Christmas lights – as passengers in a three-wheeled bike.

NHS Highland has been taken to task by a Caithness councillor for its "absolutely abysmal" handling of telephone bookings for vaccine clinics.

Wick community councillors fears over infrastructure on NC500 route By Alan Hendry Published: 08:45, 08 March 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Highland councillor Willie Mackay said the Whaligoe Steps had been advertised as a must-see attraction in Caithness but he was unhappy that nothing had been paid towards it. Picture: Alan Hendry Community councillors in Wick are worried that some of the infrastructur...

Mental health calls to police in Caithness have gone through the roof in past year By Alan Hendry Published: 11:09, 05 March 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper The number of calls to the police in Caithness from people experiencing mental health problems has "gone through the roof" over the course of the pandemic, it has emerged. Sergeant Brian Hamilton of Police Scotland told Wick community councillors: "It ...

ARNOLD GENE MADSON Arnold Gene Madson, 85, passed away on Monday, January 4, 2021, surrounded by loved ones. He was born January 17, 1934, in Fort Dodge to Arnold Gotfred Madson and Helen Elvira Nordin, younger brother to Blanche Rogers. Known as Gene, and sometimes Genial Gene, he had a habit of handing out Tootsie Rolls to both friends and strangers. Gene was baptized and confirmed at First Covenant Church in Fort Dodge on April 27, 1934, and February 29, 1948, respectively. In 1952, he gradu...

Cedar Rapids James Albert "Bert" McGrew, 92, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in the Woodlands at The Meth-Wick Community, of which he was apart since 2012. He died peacefully, surrounded by loving care, of complications of COVID-19. Bert was born Feb. 23, 1928, in Springville, Iowa, the son of Ernest and Irene (Hall) McGrew. He attended Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio, graduated from Springville High School, and attended college classes at Iowa State in Ames ...