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Sweetness and Light since 1974
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....
North Bay could have been “Fastballville”
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...
Monthly ‘Coffee & Conversations’ brewed at museum
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"...
Camp Tillicum & North Bay Rotary big part of city’s historical foundations
“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...
Early life on Copeland Street
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...
Ralph Diegel, 96, shares West Ferris memories
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...
Lakers women heading to hockey nationals … again!
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...
Play On! exhibition worth a look at museum
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...
Third time might be the charm for Juno-nominated saxophonist Shirantha Beddage
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...
One-two North Bay punch at MMA debut
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...