The nearly four-month search for a missing Carleton Place man ended on May 12 when he was found deceased. Human remains pulled from the Mississippi River on the outskirts of town belonged to Mathew “Matt” McGrath. The grief and shock Melissa Rainville feels over losing her only sibling has been compounded by the “lack of answers” surrounding McGrath’s disappearance and death.
On Jan. 7, 1,000 cards bearing the word “missing,” in addition to Matt McGrath’s name, picture and information, were distributed to mailboxes in different parts of Carleton Place.
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In the wee hours of Saturday morning, in Spencerville, Melissa Rainville turned over in bed and woke up to flickering lights outside her window.
She lay there wondering for a moment why crews would be out cleaning the streets at that hour of the night, so she got up and that’s when she saw fire one street over. The fire was in the building where she had just opened her dream shop – Trinkets Boutique – earlier in the week.
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