The North Bay Golf and Country Club is teeing off its 100th anniversary in fine fashion tonight. A multi-media retrospectives by Clark Communications is taking place at 7 p.m. with a virtual open house. Here's the LINK to sign up for the webinar. YourTV will also have...
Next to nil. That's the volume of sense the provincial response to the COVID-19 pandemic has made so far. None at all. That's the level of interest I have in joining the outrage parade over how little Premier Doug Ford has impressed since he kinda looked leader-like...
Critical care nurse Annette Trudel wants Northern Ontario residents to benefit from her experience treating extremely sick COVID-19 patients at Toronto General Hospital. Trudel, who grew up in Mattawa and started her career in North Bay, said it’s important to...
Air Canada will be servicing North Bay Airport again – possibly starting in June if travel bans are lifted. Mayor Al McDonald broke the news April 12 after the airline and federal government hammered out a major loan agreement. It was a timely development and a rare...
The robins are back, lured north early by a warm spell. It’s a welcome song to hear after a Covid winter. Simple things seem all the better when the weather has been foul. The first robin in my yard is always named Hilda, after my Grandma Dale. I wrote the piece below...
There were several main subjects I wanted to broach with North Bay Mayor Al McDonald during our Zoom interview April 7. It was a follow up to our April 2020 Skype interview, which took place as the COVID-19 pandemic and reality of lockdowns were still a novelty....
East Ferris is cashing in on its extra gas tax funding to repave a longer section of Lake Nosbonsing Road this summer. But the addition of shoulder lanes for cyclists and pedestrians will have to come later when ‘active transportation’ funding becomes available – and...
Here we go. The long and winding trail of life has put another crossroad before me and I’m deking down the path less traveled. Again. As if life in a pandemic wasn’t exciting enough. The redesign of the Small Town Times website, turning my hobby platform into a...
Jake Thomas made the best possible use of his pandemic downtime this past winter. The 73-year-old bluesman fixed every little cracked wire and hum-creating loose connection suffered over half-a-century of road trips hauling around a truck-load of guitars, mics and...
Livestream and video recordings of municipal meetings allow constituents immediate access to a greater amount of transparency and shouldn’t end when public council gatherings resume. And I’m not talking about that tiny ‘fly on the far wall’ camera shot North Bay used...