It's been a while since I've attended a North Bay Mattawa Conservation Authority board meeting. Quite a few years, actually, reporters at the Nugget stopped going regularly a few years before I left in 2018. I parachuted into the Feb. 22 meeting and it brought back...
I was at the Corbeil hacienda tickling the keyboard on Wednesday afternoon, trying to write my last BayToday.ca column. The intention was to cap off what I hope is my first Village Media series that lasted 85-straight weekly opinion pieces. To be honest, I actually...
Gateway Theatre Guild is celebrating its 75th anniversary and the Play On! exhibition at the North Bay Museum celebrates what it takes the company's history, what it takes to put on a performance and the dedication of members. There are also featured posters of the...
Saxophonist Shirantha Beddage is returning to North Bay this week on the wings of a third Juno nomination (this time as a band member, first two for his own albums), a recent composer’s residency in Sweden and a cultural quest to learn the traditional music of Sri...
There are two North Bay connections to the Montreal Fight League’s amateur combat sports event in Sainte Agathe des Monts, QC, Saturday, Jan. 28. UPDATED: See fight highlight reel at bottom of story. Dylan Dale, 24, was born and raised here but now lives in Ottawa. He...
Warm weather and open water was reflected in the 44th North Bay Christmas Bird Count results. The annual scan of the same 24-kilometre wide circle of land noted a few unusual sightings for 2022, including American Robins, Canada Geese on Trout Lake and a small flock...
Ryan Hunter is the seventh North Bay athlete to win a Grey Cup – making it an even dozen wins for locals – after his Toronto Argonauts trimmed the Mike O’Shea-coached Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24-23 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nov. 20. O’Shea actually wears half the ring...
The Vest Project co-founders, Lori Burns and Cindie D’Agostino received an early Christmas gift from the KOLO Charity Foundation, as a thank you for their continued efforts helping the front-line defenders of Ukraine. The gift is a piece of metal was from a Russian...
Just in time for a Christmas stocking stuffer and ice hut read, the Winter 2022 edition of Back in the Bay Magazine is hot off the Beatty Printing press with the first big wave of circulation beginning Dec. 15. The cover captures 1940s winter spirit with the...
Not all promotional videos are equal and few can express what true love means. A production by Regan Pictures for the North Bay Reginal Health Centre Foundation raised the bar on both accounts. This feature was published in the Winter 2020 edition of A Bit of the Bay...