North Bay umpires Dave Saad and Lui Ricci join Dave Dale on the Small Town Times podcast to talk baseball. A video capturing a desperate attempt to steal home to tie the NDA high school championship game on June 14 provides a chance to talk about the sport, including...

Back in the Bay Magazine covered two North Bay community stories with video interviews recently, the rotating service club installation at the North Bay Museum and the latest St. Joseph's General Hospital staff and medical employees reunion. The videos are part of the...

I really felt the need to talk to my mom before sharing the Mother's Day podcast with Echo's Lisa Boivin and Scott Clark, where we bare a bunch of deep stuff for the 'To North Bay With Love' episode released Thursday. Missing was some more context and updated info so...

Just in time for Mother's Day, the Small Town Times interview with Lori Laporte focusses on the strong women in her family. It dove tails well with the Back in the Bay Magazine's Spring 2024 feature on Nipissing Junction history (republished in full below with some...

In the depths of sickness and wilting under mounting tasks, the heart and mind mix fears, hopes and regrets into vivid dreams that are difficult to decipher. This week, as my fever broke, I awoke soaked with sweat and eyes welling with tears. A lucid sequence remained...

I'm not eligible for the Ferris Business Network's Lake Nipissing Ice Off contest prize package, but I have some juicy insight into the long-time tradition of guessing when the last frozen piece melts into spring. If I wrote one story I wrote 10 of them during my 18...

John McGale may be the most influential writer/musician in Quebec. He joined the most famous band in the province, called Offenbach, writing eight of the 11 songs featured in their first recording together. He also played guitar, saxophone and flute on these songs....

There's no time to write this. Magazine deadline is dove-tailing with newsletter deadlines in the midst of December madness. It takes this much to get that adrenaline rush, if you know what I mean. Huffing on time constraints and cascading work loads is a bad habit,...

Giuseppe Nazzareno Ammerata crossed the Atlantic as a young man with a suitcase full of dreams. It was 1948 and at the age of 21, Nazzareno joined the waves of Italians who made their way to Canada after the war in search of a better life. With his newly adopted...

For those who still eat meat, the price of steak makes it a luxury item on most budgets. Fortunately, I don't eat much these days and can get by with small portions. Keeping trim is essential. These strip loin grilling steaks cost $12.20 for label weight of .554...