After watching a recent episode on North Bay Echo by Scott Clark and Dave Dale, where they host the Echo Essentials podcast and interviewed Jamie Lowery, I felt compelled to offer my thoughts….I’m starting to like Mr. Lowery, in spite of his lack of concern over...
Back in the Bay Magazine covered two North Bay community stories with video interviews recently, the rotating service club installation at the North Bay Museum and the latest St. Joseph's General Hospital staff and medical employees reunion. The videos are part of the...
I'm not eligible for the Ferris Business Network's Lake Nipissing Ice Off contest prize package, but I have some juicy insight into the long-time tradition of guessing when the last frozen piece melts into spring. If I wrote one story I wrote 10 of them during my 18...
John McGale may be the most influential writer/musician in Quebec. He joined the most famous band in the province, called Offenbach, writing eight of the 11 songs featured in their first recording together. He also played guitar, saxophone and flute on these songs....
The North Bay Bantam Bulldogs beat the Brantford Bisons 26-7 in their OSFL semifinal July 29 on the Mike O'Shea gridiron at the Steve Omischl Sports Fields Complex. Next weekend, they head to the provincial championship game vs the Waterloo Junior Warriors in Windsor...
It was a perfect Sunday morning in late November, 1964. I was visiting my sister and brother-in-law, Edna and Stewart Scott at their home just outside Callander. There we were drinking coffee, chatting about the usual things with no sign that my life was about to...
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...
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...
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...