A casual drive late last week would have made you think South Temiskaming residents were emerging from hibernation. The drive-through lanes at local fast food outlets snaked around the buildings …

By Diane Johnston “Auntie Diane, what did you do during the Great Pandemic of 2020?” Somehow, I doubt my great-nieces and great-nephews will ever ask, but just in case they …

The country is slowly emerging from its self-imposed COVID-19 cocoon both socially and economically. The advent of warm weather and open lakes in Northeastern Ontario has seen more people out …

By Mike Baker (Mike Baker is Regional Editor Dufferin-Caledon, Orangeville Citizen, Caledon Citizen and Shelburne Free Press) When Premier Doug Ford “took back Ontario,” as he so vociferously claimed following …

Over 40 groups of family members and friends decorated their vehicles and held a Mother’s Day Parade for residents at Extendicare Tri-Town Nursing Home and at the Temiskaming Lodge, both …

By Steven Larocque You know how, in winter, we often say of nice weather “we’ll pay for it later”? That’ll be the case with this tiresome pandemic. A couple of …

May 4-10 is Mental Health Week in Canada and, if ever extra attention needed to be paid to this important issue, it’s now. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every corner …

By Darlene Wroe Green thumbs-up to all the local garden centres that are working so hard to help people of all ages get growing this summer. From young to old …