Today much of the site of the former rail yard in Palmerston is a largely a vast open area. It is…
Defending pessimists
Most of us prefer optimism rather than pessimism. That is why photographers always tell their…
Don’t look down
Last Friday night I watched daredevil Nik Wallenda walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. What…
And the rains that came
“Rain, rain, come and stay, we could use a little almost every day.” Those were my…
Brazen youth sentenced to jail for series of thefts in 1912
In April of 1912 a 17-year -old young man named Howard Coughlin received a jail sentence for a…
Final lines: Its been great
My colleagues wanted a final Stray Casts column. Having never written what is called…
Chain reaction
If you have ever received those annoying chain emails, you have surely seen the one about…
Fergus man had distinguished career on the Great Lakes
Today the name of Captain Robert D. Foote is not well known in Fergus. He died 90 years ago, on…
Celebrating a birthday
This year, as we celebrate Canada’s 145th birthday on July 1, Canadians will gather to…
Spring thaw produced widespread destruction in 1912
Over the years this column has described some of the destructive floods on the Grand River and its…
Grounded
Summer is the season when working parents everywhere balance guilt and budgets to determine the…
New working environments
Frequently nowadays one can see someone opening a laptop in a Starbucks and working away,…
Rural reality
It’s still 20 minutes to the hour of 5am as I sit down at my computer to rattle off the words…
Proposed electric railway line excited residents of Arthur
The years between 1900 and the start of World War I were exciting ones for railway proposals in…
Out of fashion
It appears that many are losing their appetite for investing in the stock market. This is occurring…