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A Loch Lomondside village is celebrating the installation of a new, sustainable electricity source for its community hall. In only a year, organisers from Kilmaronock Millennium Association and Kilmaronock Community Trust secured funding, design specifications, planning permission and construction to create a solar farm in a community-owned field beside the Millennium Hall in Gartocharn. Funded primarily by the Scottish Government’s CARES scheme and the Forth Valley & Lomond Community Led Local Development Fund, the £105,000 project generates enough power to make the hall self-sufficient, as well as selling surplus to the grid.

A teenager suffered life-threatening injuries in an accident involving a car and cows near Loch Lomond yesterday. Police are appealing for information following the incident on the A811 near Gartocharn at around 11.50pm last night. They say that a blue 1980s BMW 635CS collided with cows which were loose on the road near the junction with Old School Road. A passenger in the car, an 18-year-old man, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where medical staff have described his condition as life-threatening.

Planning applications in Glen Fruin and Gartocharn are among those to be validated by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority this week. The full list of applications is below - for details of an individual application, go to the national park's website and use the reference number. Reference number: 2026/0060/LBC Community council: Kilmaronock Proposal: Installation of batteries and inverter to external wall in association with solar array…

Planning applications in Gartocharn and Callander are among those to be validated by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority this week. The full list of applications is below - for details of an individual application, go to the national park's website and use the reference number. Reference number: 2026/0102/HAECommunity council: CallanderProposal: Installation of gate to the rear of listed building and formation of a stone slab patio/terrace in rear garden…

Planning applications for a snack van in Luss and to convert a church in Gartocharn into a house are among those to be validated by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority this week. The full list of applications is below - for details of an individual application, go to the national park's website and use the reference number.

Planning applications in Balmaha and Benmore are among those to be validated by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority this week. The full list of applications is below - for details of an individual application, go to the national park's website and use the reference number. Reference number: 2026/0044/NOT Community council: Kilmaronock Proposal: Erection of agricultural building Location: Wards Farm, Gartocharn, Alexandria…

Planning applications in Gartocharn and near Blairmore  were among those to be validated by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority last week. The full list is of applications is below - for details of an individual application, go to the national park's website and use the reference number. Reference number: 2025/0341/DET Community council: Kilmaronock Proposal: Erection of dwellinghouse…

Planning applications in Gartocharn and Lochgoilhead are among those to be validated by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority this week. The full list is of applications is below - for details of an individual application, go to the national park's website and use the reference number. Reference number: 2025/0247/HAE Community council: Lochgoil Proposal: Erection of garage/store building within garden curtilage…

Loch Lomond will feature on BBC’s The One Show tomorrow. Presenter JJ Chalmers will be walking in the footsteps of Tom Weir, exploring some of the author and broadcaster’s favourite places. He will visit Gartocharn, where Tom Weir made him home while presenting Weir’s Way, before climbing Duncryne Hill, popularly known as ‘The Dumpling’, accompanied by John Urquhart, chair of the Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.

A scarecrow competition has been organised as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of Gartocharn’s Millennium Hall. First to appear in the free event was festival-goer Morag on Duncryne Road near the entrance to Caldarvan Road – too late for Glasto, she went for Garto instead. Organiser Katharine Crawford said: “Closing date for the competition is Saturday August 23, which gives the judges time to visit all the scarecrows and make their decision before the winners are announced at the village show on Saturday August 30.