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...
Dylan Dale came home for a visit the summer before the COVID pandemic to tell me about a new direction for his life. I always love seeing my son, doesn't matter what surprise might be in store. He stood by me when my ship was dragging bottom a few years back, not the...
The 'Soaring Shadfly' gliding through the Small Town Times logo came to life on a sunny day on Manitoulin Island 40 years ago and not North Bay, where those strange creatures somehow became symbolic of my life. Back when I was 12 years old or so, our family was on...
Among the many things I picked up from my Dad was a firm belief there’s a time to be serious, a time to have fun and sometimes it’s best to just have some serious fun. And from what I could tell, Deirl Alvin Dale much preferred a good chuckle to anything more intense...