Watching my son’s first mixed martial arts fight was everything I suspected it would be – intense, brutal and bloody. Many asked: "What were you thinking or feeling as your boy stepped into a cage to fight?” I tried writing a piece after the Jan. 28 match but it...
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...
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...
I have mentioned The Country Roads Studio Tour which operated from 1980 to 2011. The tour brought together unique home-based businesses that featured art, traditional crafts as well as agri-businesses scattered across the rural landscape south and east of North Bay....
For years, North Bay has been known as “a hockey town” – after all we were one of the first “Hockeyville” winners – but I would posit the proposition that for much of its short history, it could just as logically be tabbed “a softball town”. To wit – for a period of...
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...