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Many moons ago, yours truly was a cub reporter at my very first newspaper gig with the New Hamburg Independent.
Is it any wonder that the people of Chatham-Kent are becoming more and more disillusioned with the leadership of the municipality?
So there I was in the wee hours of 2025 scrolling through my Twitter feed (yes, a guilty pleasure!) when I started noticing rumblings of a Jordan...
Picking up from where we last left Chatham-Kent mid-2024, the second part of the year kicked off with a new flag-raising policy aimed at...
And just like that, it’s 2025! Happy new year one and all and I hope the coming year is filled with nothing but good things for you and yours. ...
By the time you read this, I expect the Christmas meal has been consumed, the carols sung, crackers snapped (if that’s your thing!) and the last of...
I was finally able to deliver on my sister Roseanne’s birthday present recently. Even though the big day was way back in August, she had to wait...
People on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border now have one more thing in common: We’re all going to be feeling the pain of a second Donald Trump...
If the proposed community hub in the former Sears building moves forward, parking is going to be an issue. According to the official Agreement of...
Well, here we are. Almost at the end of November already, and that can mean only one thing. It’s Christmas bazaar time! Like many people, I...
The financial picture in Chatham-Kent seems to be getting more bleak by the hour at the moment, and if we’re not careful we’re going to be in very...
Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff is one of 13 Ontario mayors asking Premier Doug Ford to provide municipalities with the authority to clear...
Honestly, the last thing I thought I was going to write about this week was the proposed community hub for downtown Chatham. But, since I hadn’t...
As if everything else that we as residents of Chatham-Kent are dealing with isn’t enough, we recently received a fiscal bomb shell with news that...
So, there I was a few weeks ago, hand on a tin of pumpkin puree, trying to justify buying it at the “sale” price of $5.99, and in the end I just...
Well, it looks like Chatham-Kent council members are starting to feel the weight of public pressure in regard to the proposed downtown community...
Three adults, one seven-and-a-half-year-old, nine days, eight different hotels and a 4,000 km drive… what could go wrong?! Actually, the trip...
On a recent Wednesday morning in advance of writing an advance column, I ventured outside to do a couple of menial backyard tasks before sitting...
I was surprised and disheartened recently to read that Chatham-Kent has pulled the plug on an affordable housing project that would have added 27...
Well, boys and girls, it’s that time of year when yours truly typically pens (or in this case keyboards) an ode to the summer that was with that...
After not seeing her for a couple of years, plans were made to fly my about-to-enter-high-school great-niece Aaliyah to Chatham for a weeklong...
If there’s one thing that everyone in Chatham-Kent might be able to agree on, it’s that we have a real need for affordable housing, as well as...
Many moons ago, I bought an old wooden, canvas-covered trunk. At $20, it was a big-ticket yard sale purchase, which I justified as it would serve...
Way back in 2007, the Chatham Capitol Theatre restoration project was ongoing. At that time, it was estimated the initiative, which would...