Threatening democratic rights
We have published, in this issue, what must be considered the most remarkable document to come out of the Municipal Centre in all its...
Heritage is people!
This week Ontario is celebrating Heritage, one of the more understated weeks in the Ontario calendar, unfortunately. For many people, the word “Heritage” refers...
Apostrophe gains notoriety
by Patrick Babin, Ph.D.
Rarely does a punctuation mark gain notoriety but it happened recently. The spotlight was on the apostrophe. Bernard Shaw referred to...
Joe and Mary Swain
Heritage is people, and this week’s post is rather different. I received a message from Patricia Walsworth last week: “Hi I have a photo...
Methodist Church and Cemetery, Clothier and James Streets
As so often in North Grenville, some of the more interesting and historic locations are now empty sites where once there stood the earliest...
The devil in the details
By September of 1996, the amalgamation project seemed to be going nowhere. Although there were regular meetings of the Tri-Council Committee delegated with coming...
Squire Bottum’s House
It could be said that the entire length of Clothier Street west was the Bottum estate, as it was part of the land originally...
Forever blowing bubbles
We are into the last year of this Council’s term of office, so we can expect lots of interesting things to be seen and...
We need to keep our farm land
by William J. Langenberg, M.Sc. Env. Biol.
“No Farmers – No Food”, I read on a sign on County Rd 43, just outside Kemptville, for...
Times reporter spreads her wings
by David Shanahan
Last week, to mark Bell Let’s Talk Day, our colleague, Hilary Thomson, wrote an Editorial in the Times on the need to...