LOCAL NEWS

Skating and sliding are without question two favourite winter activities in these parts. It’s just that most of us prefer to do them on a local rink or toboggan hill, not on a provincial highway...

Plastic is everywhere. From cellophane to storage bags to water bottles, it has become one of the most widely used synthetic products for food and garbage containment since World War II. Loved for...

As the cold weather approaches and the fields transform back into rolling scrubland from the bursting oases of greens, yellows, and blues they were just one month ago, we have the opportunity to...

On September 15, 2015, a natural gas explosion and fire began at TransCanada’s St. Vincent Compressor Sta-tion in Kittson County, Minnesota, just across the border from Ridgeville,...

Wiens Furniture is in the process of adding 5,000 square feet of new retail space to their store on Main Street. Construction is already underway. “The space is going to be all appliances,”...

As a kid growing up in Niverville, I so well remember the times when Jack Stott came to the school on Remembrance Day to talk about his experiences as a soldier. Some time back, I had the...

He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast,And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done,In his exploits...

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945. But here in Canada, to the generations since that have little connection to those historic...