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The little project that grew

Aug 19, 2011 | Nicola Ross

Seven of the 20 individual plots have been rented for $25 each by area residents who want fresh vegetables.

The Potato Index

Aug 19, 2011 | Cecily Ross | The Index

In 2009 there were 5,430 acres of potatoes in Dufferin County, yielding 15,200 pounds per acre.

Maureen Baufeldt 1942 – 2011

Aug 19, 2011 | Signe Ball | Community

No detail was too small for Maureen’s attention. She set the standards high for her staff, but higher still for herself.

John Paul Adamo’s Charcuterie

Aug 19, 2011 | In The Hills | Best Bites | Departments | Food | FOOD Autumn - Winter 2011

“It’s very Italian; it’s what I grew up with,” says president and general manager John Paul Adamo.

Birth of a Protest

Jun 16, 2011 | Tim Shuff | Environment

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

Melancthon Mega Quarry
by the Numbers

Jun 16, 2011 | Tim Shuff | Environment

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

Reading Shakespeare in Mulmur

Jun 16, 2011 | Cecily Ross

“Shakespeare is hard,” said Brian (quoting the Irish critic Fintan O’Toole) “but so is life.”

The Bard Visits the Mill

Jun 16, 2011 | Michele Green

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls…
Step right up to see the amazing, zany, dark, chaotic and upside-down farce: The Comedy of Errors.

Brutus and Lou

Jun 16, 2011 | Jeff Rollings

The amazing but true tale of an innocent fish man, a loyal swan, a vindictive queen, and the triumph of true love.

Ways of Seeing

Jun 16, 2011 | Signe Ball

five artists | five subjects | twenty-five paintings
How many ways are there to paint a picture?

Baseball Memories

Jun 16, 2011 | Ken Weber | Leisure

When baseball fever swept North America in the late nineteenth century, the good people of these hills signed on, but they embraced the game with a unique, local flair.

A Day in the Life of a Volunteer Firefighter

Jun 16, 2011 | Brandon Muir

A simple “click” is sometimes all it takes. Somebody is having a bad day. That “click” is the emergency radio channel, XJI 799, coming on line.