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As I mentioned in my column last week, I have had cause to go through back issues of The Citizen from about 10 or 12 years ago. Throughout that process, I've been reminded of names, businesses, situations and concepts that I'd either forgotten about...
May arrives like a soft rehearsal for certainty. The ground, having entertained doubt for months, begins to answer in green. Not decisively, not all at once, but with a confidence that feels almost borrowed from the future. It is a month of...
A task that is fairly easy in our 21st-century laundry took on quite a different aspect for the generations that have gone before.
Earliest settlers would have to send young Johnny to the stream to fetch water.
Learning to fly, All the wrong reasons, Free Fallin'
By now, no one is really a stranger to the erratic and irrational ways of President Donald Trump. He says something. He means it (or not).
Since January, The Chaff has been pursuing a simple question with very un-simple persistence. Should Wingham build a statue of Betty White, on the entirely factual basis that her grandmother, Margaret Hobbs, was born there?
We sat down to watch a Netflix show the other night and I was quickly reminded of how incarnantly writers in Hollywood or New York write about small towns.
When the first European settlers came to the area, their main concern was survival. To achieve that, they needed to feed their families and livestock, as well as have a way to earn money.
There is a certain professional obligation I, as the editor of this fine newspaper, have when one of the community's prominent local council members elucidates that "freedom of the press is dangerous" in a public, recorded meeting.
North Huron Council has taken a firm, steady, entirely reasonable stand against a flag and The Chaff, with due caution and a respectful distance from all fabric, must agree.
The Ontario government said last week it is going to reduce the amount of education Ontario teachers are required to have to get their qualifications.
March 31 just passed, which meant a lot of people - specifically viewers of Parks and Recreation - marking the occasion as the day that Ron Swanson took 94 meetings...
We do not remember. Whole sequences are gone. Conversations, decisions, intentions, all missing as if they were carefully lifted out and taken elsewhere.
The launch of the Artemis II rocket flight to the moon last week brought back memories of the first flight to the moon in 1969.
Jill and I had only been married a few months when the first moonshot took place.
A way with words, Efficiency or corruption?, What a time to be alive
In our present-day world, the term Mechanics Institute might seem to refer to a place to learn about repairing an automobile; however, over 150 years ago, the term had a completely different connotation.
Lately, I have been impressed by Donald Trump's ability to shower praise upon himself. Oh, he doesn't always do it himself - sometimes he employs some of his devoted sycophants to do it in an embarrassing display of bootlicking that would even be a...
The day begins as though the world has tilted sideways. The air vibrates faintly with purpose, a hum that seems almost accidental but is far too precise to be random.
The warmer weather predicted (at last!) for this week probably means an end to maple syrup season, which requires warm days and cold nights for peak production.
Mutual respect, Champions of Nothing, The guy behind the guy
Isn't it funny how things can work out? Ten years ago, no one would have questioned his role as this country's hockey superhero and yet, all this time and countless rounds of golf with Donald Trump later, Wayne Gretzky...
A number of residents have begun to speculate that Martians have infiltrated the March Marsh Marches. The claim is not presented as alarmist. It is offered as a possibility that feels, to its proponents, increasingly textured.