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 …

There are many people we have to thank and congratulate for the courageous efforts that are being made during this time. Each of us has been called upon to give …

By Steven Larocque In recent weeks we’ve seen protests in the United States by people anxious to get haircuts and tattoos, so anxious they brought their pistols and assault rifles …

By Diane Johnston Random thoughts, from a COVID-addled brain: • It took a pandemic to demonstrate that some of the poorest paid jobs – in retail, for example, and nursing …

This pandemic has been a transformative event for many reasons – lives changed and lives lost prime among them. Comparisons to war-like conditions are overheated and ill-advised, but there is …

Some people are finding it is easier on their mental health if they avoid the news, but some of us are reading it constantly in an effort to try to …

By Steven Larocque Last Thursday in the office we talked briefly about the ice on Lake Temiskaming and how, hopefully, we’d soon have to watch for its official breakup. An …