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Opinion
Housing density intensification
Curb urban sprawl In my fourth year of university, I took a class about cities. I didn’t get…
NFL players ‘taking a knee’
Protests not new I’m not sure if unemployed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick knew what he was…
A sorry tale of drunkenness at the Commercial Hotel
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Magic tree
I think my Christmas tree is trying to tell me something. It’s just days before…
Fandom
Super Bowl Sunday is upon us and while I couldn’t care less about NFL football, I will…
Community news from the Mapleton Township area
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Ice storm
The only time I want to see ice of any kind between now and next December is in the form of tiny…
Comic relief
On Saturday, the Carpenter and I got up early and put on our best Sunday clothes. It was a special…
Buried gold, oil strikes: tall tales of Elora’s murky past
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Kinnettles founder too late to cash in on 1850s land boom
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Thomas Connon had tough time surviving in early Elora
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Relocated railway station doomed Hustonville
From time to time, this column has offered short histories of some of the hamlets of…
The root of all evil
You can’t always tell a book by its cover or judge a person by first impressions. I met HB in…
Unreturning days
It has been now longer than six long months since my Little Lady passed on to the paradise that she…