Like many housewives who survived the Great Depression of the dirt thirties, my mother was frugal to a fault. Twenty years later, her single guilty pleasure was the monthly purchase of McCall’s ...

A group of keen knitters and yarn crafters have been meeting at the Milford Branch Library every Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. for many years now. More than just an opportunity to work on their latest ...

Millennium Trail users are reminded that all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and dirt bikes are not permitted on the trail in winter months once grooming operations have started. Grooming is now underway.

Hippocrates was very correct when he said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Your digestive tract is the fundamental basis of whole-body health. Until you heal your GI tract and nurture a vibrant and ...

Seduction in the supermarket does not always leave the customer with “that lovin’ feeling.” While walking the aisles of a local store with a large grocery section, I saw a sign above a freezer case, ...

A public school child of the ’50s, the term “snow day” was unknown to me. Living on The Commons (Hill Street), my young neighbourhood friends and I trekked a mile to Mary Street School every morning, ...

Winter on The Commons (Hill Street) was a chilly affair in my childhood days. In the early ’50s not every household enjoyed the heat provided by an oil furnace. Oil burners were the heat source in our ...

What are you doing with the 2,000 hours per year that you used to work? This is the question I often work into a conversation with a retired person. Sure wouldn’t want someone to be whiling away the ...