Word officially came this past Tuesday from Wiarton Willie. According to legend, when the weatherman rodent stands and doesn’t see his shadow an early spring is on the way.
Opinion
Back up
I don’t know how I did it. I wasn’t doing anything outrageous or fun, because I cannot remember the last time I did anything outrageous or fun.
Anti-Semitic overtones to 1884 Peel robbery
During the 1870s, Max Simonsky built up a respectable business as an itinerant merchant, travelling among the smaller villages to the north and west of Guelph, with a stock of jewelry, watches, bolts of fine cloth, and some fancy clothing items.
One year later – a different world
What a difference a year makes.
Entirely special
Okay, so you are in line waiting for the vaccine shot and the organizer announces there are just enough shots for eight people. Quick on your feet, the math dictates you and your partner are number seven and eight. What a relief. Finally.
Positive news
I never thought I’d be throwing a special dinner for something like a vaccination, but I did – and yes, there was cake.
Enraged Garafraxa man stabbed girl at barn raising
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Pulling quarantine pay for nurses unfair
Life is full of contradictions, they say, a bromide illustrated perhaps nowhere better than in the Ontario government’s ever-changing pandemic restrictions and responses.
A little clarity helps
Everyone has a pet peeve – or these days, a plurality of annoyances.
Open Mind: Loneliness
Loneliness is something we struggle with at the best of times. Some of us are introverted and…
Happy Birthday
I cannot tell you how old my mother, Lynda, turned on her birthday last week. It’s not that I…
General store in Hillsburgh exploded in 1880
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…