A major puzzle in the current economic scene is the absence of business investment. Corporate…
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Stupid love
After years together, most couples get to the place where something their spouse does irritates…
Fond memories
Mid-afternoon, just after my noon snooze, I was sitting looking out the second-floor large picture…
Colonel J.J. Craig was public school inspector for 48 years
During his lifetime in Fergus, James J. Craig of Fergus ranked as one of the best known men in…
Fatal concerns
Just as the world failed to realize in 1914 that it was atop a powder keg about to explode in the…
Shake your moneymaker
Sometimes you just have to shake your moneymaker – even if it doesn’t make you money…
One day closer
Even though Wiarton Willy, the white woolly ground hog weather predictor’s sleepy eyes, did…
Canadian money for Canadians
The recently announced changes by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)board should arouse the ire of all…
The smell of food
I don’t think there is anything more pleasant than walking, on a cold, cold winter day, into…
Snowbank
If I have learned one thing this winter, it’s this: next year I will buy snow tires. While I…
Highlights of the week in Wellington County in July 1929
The weekly newspaper business has never been an easy path to quick riches. The newspaper business…
Budget 2014
On Feb. 11, Minister Jim Flaherty introduced Budget 2014. The federal government announced a…
Arrow Bus Lines operated a substantial transportation network
Railway specialists are perhaps the most numerous and fanatical of transportation historians. Even…
Simply outlandish
Canadian investors increasingly have been engaged in a simply outlandish tactic: placing…
Hockey parents
Hockey parents, the majority of them at least, get a bad rap. As another season in Wellington…