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For me, each day starts off with plain oatmeal porridge, sweetened with raisins, dried apples and walnuts, plus a dash of cinnamon.
Fighting the Good Fight, Match Point, National Pride at the Plate
Ostensibly, Reb Mevon was never anywhere at all. He was the kind of man who might be glimpsed from a distance and then vanish behind the mist of a morning that seemed unusually early for its hour.
In my years as a young reporter, I learned a lot about the editorial balance of running a community newspaper such as The Citizen from then-Publisher Keith Roulston.
The current provincial government in Ontario has become caught up in its own belief that it knows how to run the province better than anybody else.
Early settlers looked to the Maitland River as a source of transportation and for power to drive the many mills needed to sustain life as they knew it. Researchers John Hazlitt and Ted Turner discovered evidence of at least 78 dams and mills along the...
A second to think, I was saying 'Boo-urns', PontiffXIV on Letterboxd
Finally, after decades of neglect, November has a mascot. A real one. Not a turkey from across the border, not a prematurely installed inflatable Santa, not even those half-hearted "Movember moustaches" that hang like damp pieces of rope above so many...
As The Citizen celebrated its 40th anniversary of the first publication of the paper back on Oct. 23, a letter was received from a first-time reader in Mitchell that showed what a unique newspaper it is.
On Sunday, when the first snowfall of the year blanketed southern Ontario in a healthy coating of the white stuff, there were nearly 350 snow-related incident reports on highways in the Greater Toronto Area just in that one day.
Let Down, No Surprises, Everything in its Right Place
Last week, local headlines were abuzz as acclaimed Canadian children's author Robert Munsch officially donated his archives to the Guelph Public Library - just a hop, skip and a jump from Huron County.
Deep within the etymological soil of our calendar lies a secret long ignored, quietly humming beneath the familiar cadence of months and moons.
In the midst of the fuss over the Toronto Blue Jays' appearance in the World Series last week, another important bit of news was mostly overlooked.
A few years ago, my grandsons and I were shopping when they encouraged me to buy a type of candy called War Heads. "You will really like them," encouraged the guys, "Try one."
A true win/win situation, See you at the crossroads, ... And so it begins!
There was surprising news recently that, in 2023, some Canadian cities had among the worst air quality in the world, as smoke from the worst forest fires in memory filled the air of southern cities.
There is an old saying that, in springtime, a young man's fancy turns to love. In the Huron County of a few generations ago, that saying could have been that a young man's fancy turns to harvesting...
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