Back Issues

Local Hero: Rob Ciccotelli: The sheer volume of this man’s creative endeavours is astonishing.

Local Hero: Larry Kurtz is the founder of Orangeville’s highly successful Blues and Jazz Festival.

Local Heroes: Jane Helie & Tammy Clark have cared for a feral cat community over the past ten years.

Local Hero: Ken Jewett is the founder of Maple Leaves Forever.

Local Heroes: Karen Hutchinson & Jennifer Clark are driving a local and sustainable food system.

Roland Kirouac choreographs the excitement as Orangeville prepares to welcome the Olympic Flame.

Sarah Bonikowsky of Mono Centre was a member of the Canadian women’s eight rowing team at the Beijing Olympics last year. Sarah’s father, Gary Bonikowsky, recorded the following entry in his journal.

For 35 years, nothing has come between these Ladies and their Sunday morning hockey game at the Hillsburgh Arena.

Our annual year-end review of new books. A special thanks to BookLore for its support — and a very happy birthday for its 20th anniversary in 2010.

For an average price of $20, for anything from eight tracks of epic electric guitar to ten total hits that deserve to be widely celebrated, I give you the poets and princes of music in the hills.

The sun was resting on the limestone cliff, setting it ablaze. I squinted at the orange embers on the rock wall, but the reflection was so glaring, I had to look away. My childhood too had gone up in flames.

The Women’s Institute has been called the most effective women’s organization ever – with good reason. For over a century, the WI has been welcoming, educating, challenging, improving, supporting and “getting things done.”