Columns
Over the course of the last month or so, our family has engaged in the practice of nurturing a caterpillar along its journey to becoming a butterfly. We have seen three of them off into the world since late July.
There is a statue in Lucknow of a man who, strictly speaking, was not from Lucknow. This seems like a minor detail until you start thinking about it, at which point it becomes a surprisingly entertaining question.
This column about the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy should really have been in last week's newspaper, which came out on Sept. 11, but since I write this column almost a week in advance, I wasn't really thinking of it.
Bridge over troubled water, The boxer, Homeward bound
There comes a point in every major civic undertaking when the calendar itself begins to look suspicious. We have reached that point.
Each year, the county and area fire departments would pool their resources and put together an emergency preparedness guide in The Citizen.
Last week, The Citizen moved into its new office - which also happens to be its first office.
Born in the U.S.A., My City in Ruins, Darkness on the Edge of Town
There are certain ideas that refuse to go away, no matter how many reasonable people quietly suggest that perhaps we should talk about something else. The Chaff has one of those ideas.
Anyone who has been on social media recently or grabbed their mail from the post office has seen a version of the same flyer.
Watching the earthquake and landslide in Nepal last week - waves of dirt and ice smashing over buildings - reminded me what a gentle world we live in here in Huron County.
The national anthem, Anyone can play guitar, Everything in its right place
In an era when some people change career paths in their lifetime, it is remarkable to learn of a family whose members pursued their individual vocations for several decades each.
For as long as there have been elections, there has always been someone looking to undermine them.
There are some ideas that begin in a newsroom and end in a courtroom. This one began in a medical waste bin.
Recently, the Municipality of Bluewater made news when council unanimously rejected a plan by developers which would have stored 500 megawatts of electricity in a compressed air energy storage situation.
In January of 1876, a station on the London, Huron and Bruce Railway (CNR) was established at the east end of Dinsley Street and, a year later, the Village of Blyth was incorporated as a legal entity with a population of about 800.
Last Thursday, I watched a building come down that held a lot of history within its walls. Now, the majority of that history happened before I was a Huron County resident, but hearing some people talk about their experiences with Bainton's, it just...
There are people who know about rocks. And then there is Dr. Michael Stearns. The Chaff was fortunate enough to secure an exclusive interview with Stearns, an associate professor of Earth science whose expertise reaches into the deep geological...
Driving into town on the weekend I was shocked to see a pile of rubble where Bainton Limited had formerly stood. On thinking about it, I knew it was going to happen. Construction fences had earlier been installed around the empty building, but...
This month, I'll be wrapping up a run of coaching two of my kids' sports teams this summer. I coached Tallulah's soccer team in Brussels and her baseball team in Blyth.
Huron County Warden Jamie Heffer has thrown his considerable political weight behind a proposal to honour one of Wingham's most famous, and least expected, ancestral exports: the late Hollywood icon Betty White.