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...
With its wooden clapboard siding and wraparound porch, the house that our family moved into on Copeland Street in 1945 was an iconic small-town residence - the kind moviemakers seek out to convey a nostalgic ambiance. Think "The Waltons". Ubiquitous domestic...
Nestor Prisco, one of North Bay's unofficial historians, and I dropped by Antiques at Deegan's March 3 for a chat with 'Mr. Downtown' Ralph Diegel, 96. We talked about his youth growing up in Ferris, scouts, Camp Tillicum, cadets, his Second World War service in the...
The Nipissing Lakers women's hockey team has qualified as repeat contenders in the USports national championships after earning a second-straight berth in the OUA McCaw Cup final (the top two teams in Ontario go to the nationals, which are hosted in Montreal March...
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...