Business
Lindsay’s ‘Ironman’ men's clothier, Greg Nisbett, dead at 62
Greg Nisbett, a well-known fixture in Lindsay’s downtown retail environment as owner of Nisbett’s Clothiers, has died this week at 62 from cancer.
Stories by Roderick Benns
Opinion Columns
Our turn to grow
When I was a child growing up in Lindsay, the smallest number I recall seeing on our town’s population sign on Highway 36 was 12,000.
Community
Amy Terrill on broadcast memories, never doing things by halves, and finding her inner author
As it turns out, Amy Terrill and I have a lot in common.
Opinion Columns
Five years of the Advocate magazine
I still remember telling my Grade 4 teacher, Nancy Graham, that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up.
Opinion Columns
Unions: Too powerful or too weak?
I remember having a discussion with my late father about unions, somewhere around 1990. He told me they were “a good thing once.”
Community
Paul Riley on storytelling, his two careers and what he owes his immigrant mother
His pint of Turbo Hazy Hot Rod clinks with my own pint of Lock 33 at the Pie Eyed Monk.
Opinion Columns
My New Year’s Res-Illusions
According to a 2016 American study, 91 per cent of people don’t follow through on their resolutions.
Opinion Columns
Basic income still alive as a policy option
Floyd Marinescu is a Canadian CEO who has an interesting hotel story.
Social Issues
New data show $19.05 is the living wage for our region
New figures just released from the Ontario Living Wage Network show that a family of four in this region, with both parents working full-time, would each have to earn $19.05 per hour to cover basic expenses in 2022.
Business
Eclectic wine shop and espresso bar opens in downtown Lindsay
About 20 years ago, Jennifer Boksman remembers walking in Paris, heading toward the Seine River for a cruise.
Community
Lacey Ball on being too busy for downtime, helping the downtown and being down with Walmart
It’s hard to get Lacey Ball to talk about anything other than work.
Community
Library looks to fill eight vacant board positions
As the city looks to fill all its board, council committees and task forces for the next council term, the library board will also be recruiting eight new volunteer trustees this month.
Health
Caressant Care, Lindsay says it welcomes new ‘partnership’ with Ministry to address care issues
A Lindsay nursing home says it will address compliance issues quickly with the help of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Health
Caressant Care’s Mary Street home location ordered to cease admissions of new residents
Caressant Care Lindsay nursing home has been ordered to stop accepting new residents.
Community
Liz Pead on finding community harmony, talking with the other, and being a maker
Liz Pead was on her way to the 2019 Kawartha Yarn and Fibre Festival when she found herself lost on Oak Street in Fenelon Falls — and now she lives there.
Community
Sergeant Brendan Johnston accepts honour for Police Services Hero nomination
When she nominated Sergeant Brendan Johnston as her police hero, Erin Broderick wrote an emotional nomination. Her husband, Constable Mike Broderick, died by suicide on Nov. 5 last year.
Opinion Columns
The New-Green Libservative Party of Canada
A friend of mine confided she often finds it difficult to know which way to vote, since no one party’s platform seems to completely resonate with her. I feel her pain.
Community
Book release: A History of Pandemics in Kawartha Lakes
A book published by the Ottawa Huron Tract History Association -- A History of Pandemics in Kawartha Lakes -- tells the stories of pandemics in our community from the very old to present day.
Opinion Columns
So many left behind — now we reap what we have sown
Despite all the discussion about how divided we are as a nation now, there has always been one key reason for that division — and we have yet to meaningfully address it.
Business
Two Kindred spirits open new independent café in downtown Lindsay
It takes a little imagination now, but Lindsay will soon have a new independent café – Kindred -- just a step away from where Boiling Over’s Coffee Vault used to be.
Community
Aaron Young on his Icelandic roots, Lindsay’s bittersweet growth and becoming a different human being
If you happened to be in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, in the 1970s (and really, who wasn’t?), you might have caught glimpse of a tall boy playing with other kids among the lava fields.
Community
Michele Kennedy, accidental designer, on Maury Povich and finding self-confidence
No sooner has Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun started up when Michele Kennedy walks through the door.
Municipal
Kawartha Lakes Pride frustrated with city’s refusal to allow Pride beach social
Pride Week in Kawartha Lakes ended on a sour note when the city refused to allow a beach social to take place at Garnet Graham Beach Park in Fenelon Falls.
News Briefs
Sunderland Lions make donation for new MRI
We serve. The Lions’ motto may only consist of two words, but the story they tell is long, with many happy chapters.