The mild winter is setting some traditional winter activities back a little. Fortunately, weather forecasters are calling for a long, slow freeze in the next couple of weeks, not too …

By Gordon Brock Let’s make this as accurate as humanly possible. How often do we watch a movie or a television show set in the past and we see a …

    National Non-Smoking Week is being observed from January 21-27 in Canada. It’s a time for Temiskaming area residents to seriously consider the health risks of smoking and to …

By Diane Johnston   All I wanted was to play the piano, and I found myself in a Stuart McLean-ish story. To back up… When I visited the folks at …

    It takes a village to raise a child, and it also takes a village to support youths as they negotiate their teen years and emerge into adulthood with …

By Steven Larocque   I’m going to venture into cranky old man territory this week and jump around from thought to thought. A news item on CBC radio talked about …

Environment Canada issued a Winter Storm Watch this week, changing that to a Winter Storm Warning by January 9. We all knew that winter, in all its glory, had to …

By Darlene Wroe The new calendar on the wall is an almanac of seasons, guiding people through the possibilities of flowers, moon phases, religious holidays, pagan passages and the birthdays …