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Herons and egrets wading in local wetlands or silhouetted against blue skies, excite people whenever they are seen. They speak to us of grace, elegance and regal bearing. We would do well to listen to what they have to say.

Babies arrive trailing clouds of happy expectations. But often those first few months can be anything but a joyful experience. Fortunately, this region is rich in programs to help mothers cope.

Each year Jane Ohland Cameron writes and directs and new play for aspiring young actors at Theatre Orangeville.

A new web site, a sister site devoted to Kids and our pick of the best things to do in the hills.

Letters published in the Spring 2010 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Beer diets, beans diets, Icelandic banks (on a crash diet?), pets, paws and small farm producers. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Caledon artist Jim Stewart has been creating figurative and abstract paintings since the early 1970s.

Our own highly selective “picks” of just some of the things that make life such a distinctive pleasure here in the hills.

Rock Garden Farms offers the very best of in-season, Ontario grown fruits and vegetables.

Spring always arrives like a surprise. If you love food as much as I do, perhaps the mere sight of the first green bud will send you too scurrying to plan your spring recipes.

When it came into service in 1867, built on land donated by the Village of Brampton, Peel County jail was a grim edifice modelled on England’s notorious Newgate Prison.

On the way to our one-room primary school, we often picked the first spring flowers to present to our teacher.