Community
Dashing through the snow: Sleighing and sleigh rides
Although it is customary to sing “Dashing through the snow/ In a one-horse open sleigh” during the Christmas season, the snow is often not plentiful enough for a good old-fashioned sleigh ride until at least January.
‘I do’: Local businesses have created a romance-based tourism boom with little help from the city
Even as snowdrifts cover local fields and our lakes sleep under the ice, members of a vibrant local industry are focused on the warmer months, when they’ll embark on yet another jam-packed season of serving a tourism sector many Kawartha Lakes residents have no idea exists.
Paul Riley on storytelling, his two careers and what he owes his immigrant mother
Lunch with Roderick Benns: Conversations with interesting people in Kawartha Lakes
His pint of Turbo Hazy Hot Rod clinks with my own pint of Lock 33 at the Pie Eyed Monk.
The Spirit of Christmas is alive and well in Fenelon Falls
From left to right: Kristy Lindsay, FFSS head of guidance, Susan Sainsbury, educational assistant, and Christa Bradburn, FFSS principal.
Kirkfield firehall rocked by mass resignations
At a meeting on Dec. 19, six of Kirkfield’s 17 volunteer firefighters announced they are resigning from the force. Five of the six will resign effective Jan. 1, 2023
“Make it an Electrical Christmas” Remembering appliances from long ago
Just in Time local history series
It’s a snowy Christmas Day in Lindsay some 65 years ago.
Restoring civility
If Kawartha Lakes feels a lot less polite, we can do something about that
It’s a summer Monday at the post office on Cambridge Street in Lindsay.
