Chatham is an interesting small city in southern Ontario that probably isn't on your bucket list, which is understandable. I took a rare road trip a bit ago and stayed there for five nights visiting a good friend. We checked out the 'Rims and Ribs' classic car show...
Several northern artists are taking part in an artistic protest over the development of green and forested spaces in southern Ontario. A variety of works are planned to bring specific attention to the threats to the Blue Mountain Niagara Escarpment Greenbelt. Dermot...
I had one of those cool interviews the other day, it sparked a lot of memories about baseball. There's a video below where I talk to two young men I watched grow up immersed in multiple sports, with my lad just a year or so behind for all of a decade. They're now in...
The QUONTA Theatre Festival is coming back to life after a pandemic hiatus with three productions hitting the stage in North Bay from three esteemed theatre companies: Gateway Theatre Guild from North Bay, Sault Theatre Workshop from Sault St. Marie, and Gore Bay...
North Bay Councillor Jamie Lowery, formerly CEO of Cassellholme Home for the Aged and currently executive director at Castle Arms seniors living, talked with Small Town Times editor Dave Dale about issues raised in a previous podcast. It was with former councillor and...
Small Town Times video interviews in the 'blue room' at Clark Communications are getting thousands of views when combined, including 2,200 in the past two weeks. The uptick in production has attracted several dozen more subscribers to the channel, pushing it to 418...
Wayne Eyre, 71, considers himself lucky after falling off a roof two years ago. The retired paramedic broke his lower leg in five places and a nasty infection led to a below-knee amputation seven months later. But the head athletic trainer for the Nipissing Lakers...
The last Thursday of the month at 2:30 p.m. is a great time to catch up on history at the North Bay Museum. Now held both in-person upstairs and via Zoom, the 'Coffee and Conversations' meetings include slide show presentations of a subject after a "show and tell"...
“Clean living and healthful recreation” has been the mission of Rotary’s Camp Tillicum long before the South Shore property was donated to the service club in 1949. Thomas Palmer and James Nightingale bought the property in 1926 for the expressed purpose of providing...
There's a lot of junk online and it can be exhausting to sift through it. I understand your pain. My work takes me many places and it's getting harder and harder to keep my attention deficit in check. Making it worse for me, I'm a next level procrastinator. Especially...