God is great?

January 13, 2015

By Nate Smelle I WAS ENJOYING MY MORNING coffee on Wednesday, Jan. 7 while at the same time keeping an eye on the news when I ...

We’re exceptional, not the exception

You’re not special. Yes, you, my friend, are as plain and simple as the rest of us. I’m sure you’re a beautiful person, but honestly, we’re all beautiful people.

A Hungry one

Where would we be without our volunteers?

Small municipalities… between a rock and a hard place

By Jim Eadie The past several years have witnessed a recurring theme on many different levels for small municipal governments. The province of Ontario sets ...

Transparency to come with digital age?

While helping me move to Bancroft last weekend, my mother and I had the most blink-worthy conversation I’ve had in a long time.

Looking forward

By Nate Smelle INTERVIEWING PEOPLE and writing down their stories each week one begins to notice patterns and cycles that take place in and around ...

Looking back

By Nate Smelle LOOKING BACK ON 2014 the word that comes to mind is transition. This past year, people in Bancroft, across Canada and around ...

Green Christmas

By Nate Smelle CHRISTMAS IS A TIME TO look back on the year and our lives and reflect upon the positive side of things. It ...

Rusting beauty

By Nate Smelle BEFORE THE OFFICIAL opening of artist Don Wilson’s exhibit Aesthetic Fabrications: Photographs of an Industrial Geography I had a chance to walk ...