1860 to 1875 marked a flurry of church construction, from one end of the county to the other
Opinion
Pardon the confusion
As the years pass and time seems to speed up, confusion reigns. Items in the news and a few…
No mistletoe
Sometimes cynicism is a good thing, especially when I accept that it’s just pessimism without…
Home sick
You know what they say: the family that gets sick together, gets to stay home and be sick together.…
Acclaimed candidates 1, local citizens 0
One would have expected a little more grace at a recent Mapleton council meeting, rather than the…
Funding conundrum
“We have insufficient funding to maintain or repair all of the water and erosion control…
Rethinking sex ed.
As the provincial government re-works chapters of the most recent sex-ed curriculum it found…
Respect at election time
Election season is now in full swing. Advertising pieces have already hit mailboxes and doorsteps.…
Harvest celebrations
The return of Mapleton’s Harvest Festival seems like a timely and positive development for…
Perseverance pays off
An announcement earlier this month that the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) has…
Thirteen years later
It’s funny what happens when computers get swapped out. Along with learning new software…
Slip up? Or ad lib?
It would have been so simple. All Premier Doug Ford had to do in his Aug. 20 keynote address at the…
Looking at the numbers
With a provincial election decided and a municipal vote scheduled for the fall, the timing was…
Dizzying questions
Local councillor Ron Elliott raised a question, but answers will be scarce. His query and proposed…
Ford’s fake News
Back in the 1960s Canadian communications guru Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase, and wrote a book…