I apologize to all the people in the grocery store last Tuesday night who witnessed the…
Reality
“To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.” So went a poetic nursery rhyme along about…
Huge Reform Party celebration in Guelph after elections of 1848
The history of elections is something of a specialty, exciting some people and boring a larger…
Current economic thinking can be shown to be utter nonsense
Correspondents have told this columnist that these reviews are excessively pessimistic. Readers…
Perfect Day
I never thought this day would come, but it arrived. Today was the day my children were…
Pick pocket’s paradise
Periodically, I wander over to the Keady Livestock Market. It is only a half hour’s drive…
Crash near Fergus claimed life of glider pilot in 1958
Wellington County has been spared the tragedy of major air disasters, but there have been a few…
Huge problems
Our housing sector can cause huge problems for our economy, but also, traditionally, it leads us…
Grass is greener
I was trying to be helpful. I wanted to show my hard-working spouse, the Carpenter, some support.…
Hot, hot and hotter
Well, folks, it has been hotter than the hubs of Hades up here in the out-backs of Markdale. For…
Drainage lawsuit in 1899 was costly to East Luther Township
Robert McKim is a name that has appeared in this column a number of times. An Irish immigrant,…
Quiet hamlet the scene of police and residents brawl on Dec. 31
The name Yatton is probably unknown to the majority of Wellington County residents. Located in the…
Inconvenient truths about the final costs to environment of global warming
Gradually, the public is becoming aware of the significant impact on climate change caused by our…
Seeing things
Mick Jagger, you said it best. “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try…
L-A-Z-Y II
Those crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer are slipping rapidly past. I don’t feel lazy; the fact…