Croick Church reopens
The building has reopened for daily public access for the first time since 2020.
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Croick Church reopens
The building has reopened for daily public access for the first time since 2020.
Highlands and Islands Climate Festival 2026
Meet your newly elected MSP
Community-centred energy policy would solve Sutherland renewables tensions
Interview with David Graham
Maree Todd MSP to host childcare surgeries locally
The Power Shift magazine launch: Energy, democracy and how to give a voice to communities across Scotland
Heritage
The Invercharron Gathering and the unique Kenny's Games
Third part of the History of Highland Games in and around the Kyle of Sutherland area written by Alasdair MacDonald.
A New England lumberjacks' 'invasion'
History of farming in Ardgay
Victorian-era Highland Games
The day the flood swept away the first Bonar Bridge
An 80th Anniversary reflection
History of the Highland Games
Nature
The Power Shift
Community-centred energy policy would solve Sutherland renewables tensions
Dr Josh Doble, Director of Policy, Community Land Scotland writes about the Scottish Community Coalition on Energy work and their vision for a more democratic energy system.
Locked out by design: what stands between the Local Power Plan and the communities it’s meant to deliver for
Who gets to decide about Scotland’s national parks?
Musselburgh firm shows how renewable energy can support local communities
A Hebridean Boom Town is on the horizon
From Shetland to Åland: what happens when locals have the power to decide over wind farms?
Telling better stories
Place-names
The hill, the hero and his dog
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history
and origins of place names in and around our area
Carn Bhren, also Carn Bhrain, or Carn Breathainn as recorded by W J Watson in 1904, is a 635-metre (2,085 ft) summit in Ardgay. Its name most likely means ‘cairn
Stones
Fairies and malicious spirits
Faces and facial features
Croick, Croich and antlers
Out-of-place names
