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For several generations, residents of southern Ontario marked the waning of summer with a trip to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.

In Heaven, all people and all entities have been set free. 

There are two things I will experience every Christmas season without fail: mixed nuts and mixed emotions.

Guelph police and the jail officials took no chances when they had Frenchie Bedard back in their custody. 

Canada and the Commonwealth have a new king, Charles the third. All the laws of the land are made when he signs the legislation into law. The laws are named with his name and enacted with his authority. 

It’s fair to say that when it comes to communication by text (or any other form of written conversation, or like, conversation in general), my spouse, the Carpenter, is monosyllabic. 

Back in the summer of 1921 three young men got to know one another as inmates at the Ontario Reformatory on the east end of Guelph.

What position in curling would Jesus say is the most righteous?

Over the years I have been in the habit of making notes on criminal activity in Elora that I come across while researching other subjects. 

I don’t know if you can read the joy in this column. I can’t convey it accurately with words, but I want you to feel it, experience it and share it with me when you read the following statement. Ready? 

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Fraud and scams are on the rise and happen around us daily.

Recently, Wes and I were reading through 2 Samuel 6, and we came to the part where David and the house of Israel transport the ark of God out of the house of Abinadab to bring it to Jerusalem.

I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I walked through the door of the church I was christened in, but when I saw the sign outside saying “Open for Prayer,” it was an invitation I felt called to accept. 

During the 1920s, Wellington County’s communities varied in their approach to the concept of a war memorial. Some charged full speed ahead with the project. 

Silver spoons and sacrifice “Born with a silver spoon in his mouth” is a mocking way we…