By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 7 2017 It is becoming abundantly clear as clear as the bags in which we’re all supposed to deposit our household waste that there are issues with the management of…
Bugs and the end of life
By Jim Poling Published Nov. 30 3017 The bug season is well beyond the coming winter so it’s safe to write about what wonderful creatures insects are. They do wonderful things for us; pollinate our…
Merry Minden!
To the Editor I would like to congratulate everyone involved in the merrying of Minden Village. There have been a series of near perfect happenings over the last week or so that have resulted in…
Read all about it
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 30 3017 As I begin this column I’m having a difficult time concentrating. I’m having a difficult time concentrating because as I write this I’ve recently learned that hundreds of…
Come December
By Jim Poling Published Nov. 23 2017 December looms on the late November horizon leaving us wondering how it will treat us this year. Will it be cruel or will it be kind? It has…
Councillor compensation
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 23 2017 It’s an awkward conversation for municipal politicians to have the one about how much they should get paid. That conversation is after all public and they are after…
Cannabis control
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 16 2017 Unless you’ve had your head in a cloud of smoke you’re likely aware the federal government is rolling out legislation to legalize marijuana a move that has sparked…
Silence of the birds
By Jim Poling Published Nov. 16 2017 I am in my deer hunting stand watching and wondering. Wondering where they all have gone. Not the deer. I am beyond the days of anxiety over seeing…
Thoughts as I buy my poppy
By George Farrell Published Nov. 9 2017 I’m a baby boomer the product of a war time romance between a Polish fighter pilot and an English woman who was a member of the Woman’s Auxiliary…
No safe distance
By Jim Poling Published Nov. 9 2017 One bug season ends another begins. The one just begun is one to be concerned about. The late autumn-winter flu bug season already is showing evidence that it…
Why we fight
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 9 2017 This Saturday is Remembrance Day. In thousands of communities across the country crowds will gather at cenotaphs for solemn ceremonies where wreaths will be laid and silence observed…
The brilliance of Stephen King
By Jim Poling Published Nov. 2 2017 This being Halloween week I have Stephen King on my night table. Nothing is spookier than ghostly autumn moonlight spilling through the bedroom window onto the horror master’s…
The middle class
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 2 2017 It’s a buzz term favoured by politicians of the moment – middle class. It was used frequently by both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the guy who was…
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To the community We need your help. Plain and simple there is a crisis looming in child welfare that Children’s Aid Societies across our province are facing … a steady decline in available foster families…
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To the Editor World Stroke Day is Sunday Oct. 29. This year’s theme is “What’s Your Reason for Preventing Stroke.” Stroke effects everyone – we all have a reason to prevent it. The effects of…
Necessary intrusion
By Chad Ingram Published Oct. 26 2017 It’s not pretty but it’s important. Mandated by the province the municipalities of Haliburton County are in the process of rolling out septic tank re-inspection programs. The exact…
One paw or another
By Jim Poling Published Oct. 26 2017 I am sitting on the deck watching the squirrels skip through the fallen leaves searching for something to steal. Squirrels are beastly vandals and unrepentant thieves. At this…
So long Sears
By Chad Ingram Published Oct. 19 2017 I grew up in Little Britain a small village outside Lindsay that some readers may be familiar with. The place with the butter tart shop. Along with a…
To catch a litterpig
By Jim Poling Published Oct. 17 2017 “We’ve got a good one” Scully calls out. She holds it up examining it carefully before dropping it into a plastic evidence bag. “It’s recent” she says “maybe…
Essential connection
By Chad Ingram Published Oct. 12 2017 In an appearance on TVO’s The Agenda last week Haliburton County Warden Brent Devolin spoke about the need for improved wireless connectivity to broadband high-speed Internet in the…
Trouble in Bahteh Wallow
By Jim Poling Published Oct. 12 2017 Bahteh Wallow was a democratic society founded on the idea that all animals are created equal. It had evolved from a revolution and a civil war as a…