Good work was done by the organizers of the Isaac Walker-Dupont Family Fun Fishing Fundraising Weekend derby, held February 18-20 in memory of 19-year-old Isaac Walker-Dupont. Isaac was a young …

By Diane Johnston I’m a sucker for a glossy brochure promoting an attraction after I’ve visited. Who needs a postcard when the pamphlet has photos and all the geographic, geological …

If the province were to invest in improving winter maintenance of secondary highways in the region, more local traffic could use those routes and leave Highway 11 for the most …

By Steven Larocque Our weekly poll – as unscientific as it is – shows readers are most having difficulty dealing with inflation when it comes to groceries/medicine. Among the other …

By Darlene Wroe   There are times that I find myself driving at night on Highway 11. It seems that lately the clip of the general speed of traffic out …

    There’s a COVID update story in The Speaker this week, the first in a couple of weeks. COVID is still around, but it’s not the newsmaker it was …

The unfortunate thing about the structure of our services is that decisions are always based on the dollars that are available. Government guidelines, union agreements, expected annual increases in wages …

By Steven Larocque I took two calls from seniors at the start of this week. One was concerned that there isn’t a place for her and her friends to go …