Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Stephen Vance, Editor

572 Posts

This Community Has Responded Splendidly in Wake of Johnny B’s Fire

In the wake of a major structure fire on Thursday evening that saw a local auto repair shop destroyed, and caused concern for the...

Meaford is Open For Summer

With the Victoria Day long weekend, often referred to as the 'unofficial start of summer', now behind us, Meaford is open for summer. Memorial Park...

Council Makes the Best of a Bad Situation, Allowing the Blue Dolphin Pool to Open This Season

When I was a child in the 1970s, on a hot summer day I would roller skate to the local swimming pool with my...

Funding Requests From Community Well-being Bursary Program Far Exceed What’s Available

Over the course of two sessions held on Monday and Tuesday of this week, members of council heard from nearly 30 local organizations hoping...

Farmers’ Market Season Will Soon Be Upon Us

Though it has felt slow in coming, we have arrived at the month of May. The damp and chilly April we have experienced is...

Will We Know What to Believe in the Future?

Last week a media outlet in India unveiled its first full-time artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor. German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reported that the...

Good Ideas, Bad Ideas, Council Must Entertain Them All

It is not uncommon for me to hear from frustrated residents, often unfamiliar with council procedure, who are angered that council would consider a...

Why Are Some of Us So Easily Offended?

Recent news articles about some Florida parents who were offended by Michelangelo's famous statue of David, so offended that the Tallahassee Classical School fired...

Has Spring Finally Sprung?

The season of spring officially arrived two weeks ago, but even just a week ago we were hit with a snowstorm that made the...

Next Year is Meaford’s Sesquicentennial

Sesquicentennial, not exactly a word we use regularly, but it is a word that Meafordites will be hearing much in the months to come,...

Moving Beyond the Three Rs

Reduce, reuse, recycle. We have heard it for decades now, and for most of us, it has become our standard approach to managing waste,...

We Will Have a Scarecrow Invasion in 2023 After All

Many in this community were saddened upon hearing the news back in November that the Scarecrow Invasion & Family Festival was put on pause...

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