Please, Mister Postman

Being a growing community, still finding the balance between a traditional rural and contemporary urban population, North Grenville is losing some of that old...

Strange fruit

This is our annual Heritage Week issue, marking Heritage Week in Ontario, and Heritage Month in North Grenville. Clearly, heritage is a big deal...

Not there yet

by Howaida Sorour-Roberts In response to the incident at St. Mike’s regarding the racist prom proposal, the one thing that strikes me with all the...

We can do better

Friday was a sad day for North Grenville. Early in the day, a photo was circulated online showcasing a poster that a female student...

It’s all too much

Here’s an interesting question: can you have too much democracy? Looking at different countries around the world, and all the variations on democratic structures...

Those were the days

Something rather significant happened at a recent Committee of the Whole meeting of the NG Council. A recommendation was made that “a new fifteen...

We can work it out

Well, just two weeks into the new decade, and things are becoming really interesting. We could have had a major war in the Gulf,...

Another year over….

Happy New year to all! And just one week into 2020, I want to make a definite resolution: no variation of “2020 vision”, or...

Free to have fun

A couple of weekends ago, I volunteered at the Old Town Kemptville BIA Christmas event. I clocked in at 10:00 am at the Library,...

And so this is Christmas…

It’s getting close now, almost on top of us. Christmas, I mean, what else? There will only be one more issue of the Times...