TYVoices 2023 Wins Best Community Promotion Award At the 2024 Quebec Community Newspaper Association Awards on June 28, the 2023 edition of the Townships Young Voices earned first place in the Community Promotion Awards. This was our inaugural TYVoices; we have just completed our second annual TYVoices initiative (2024), with growing participation from youth across…
QCNA Award-winning Feature Article… Here it is! This article won first place as Best Feature Article in the Quebec Community Newspapers Association 2023 Awards. It was originally published in the Townships Sun (July/August 2023). Congratulations, Marie Moliner! ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10 Years Ago, Downtown was Devastated Megantic, Then and Now by Marie Moliner “You had…
NEW! Find the new Townships Sun in Sutton! In Sutton – L’Art des possibles offers so much. Fine teas. Arts and crafts boutique. Relaxing atmosphere. Space for creative work, either individually or in group. And NEW! Now this inviting tea salon also offers the TOWNSHIPS SUN. Stop by 4 rue du Dépôt in Sutton, just…
If it’s May, it must be a new Townships Sun… and the theme is Gardens in the Townships. Brought to us by guest editor, Angela Leuck, gardener and poet, poet and gardener! If you have subscribed, it’s in your mailbox. If not, you can find it at our distribution points in the next few days.…
Townships Young Voices 2024 Winners by Category FICTION Johnny Beauvais, 16, Cowansville: Remember To Live Brooklynn Beaudoin Driscoll, 17, Lennoxville: Remember Ruohan Wallis, 18, Brompton: Call Me Back Emry-Waven A. Côté, 12, Magog: Excerpt from a novel-in-creation called “Nhako’s Quest” Sofia Thibault, 11, Sherbrooke: …The Fear… NONFICTION Avigaelle Court, 12,…
$3000 in Prizes Go to 15 Creative Youth Knowlton, April 28, 2024. “You had to be there,” is what everyone is saying. A convergence of over 100 youth, families, teachers, and friends gathered last Sunday in Knowlton for the Townships Sun’s 2024 Townships Young Voices creative awards. The gala saw 21…
Happy Poetry Month! You are warmly invited to our Poetry Tea on Sunday, April 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Uplands Cultural & Heritage Centre, 9 Spied St., Lennoxville. Admission is free, courtesy of Uplands, and tea and treats are complimentary, courtesy of participating poets. A series of Townships Poets will read from…
Sherbrooke, March 19, 2024. Just published―the Townships Sun’s 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition, a full 52 pages of stories and images reflecting on the life and times of this “small yet mighty magazine.” Those are the words of Marie Moliner, its 50th Anniversary Coordinator and Assistant Editor, who led the team organizing a celebration of the…
Are your feet killing you? We have a solution for you! Put your feet up and read the Townships Sun. Your feet will get a special rest while you read our 52-page March 2024 special edition, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Townships Sun. Yes, your editorial team and contributors have been…
Townships Young Voices Competition closes on February 29! There are only a few days left to enter the Townships Young Voices competition, open to people aged 11-29 who live in the Eastern Townships. Fifteen prizes totaling $3000 are available to be won in the categories of art, photography, poetry,…