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Road trip Portugal

Advocate designer puts magazines together while exploring European nation

Advocate graphic designer, Christina Dedes, put together two recent issues of the Advocate on the road, while travelling in Portugal.

Amy Terrill on broadcast memories, never doing things by halves, and finding her inner author

Lunch with Roderick Benns: Conversations with interesting people in Kawartha Lakes

As it turns out, Amy Terrill and I have a lot in common.

Cab driver saves elderly local woman from being scammed out of thousands of dollars

Yesterday a local cab driver suspected something sounded suspicious when their passenger said she needed a ride to the bank to withdraw money.

Council expenses rise 3.5 percent between 2021 and 2022

Leanne Mitchell, supervisor of cost accounting, presented what council had spent on renumeration and expenses at the last council meeting, comparing overall costs to fund council in 2021 to those costs in 2022.

Coboconk’s Summit Wellness Centre looking to start construction in spring

Ian Forster and Jennifer Wilson of the Coboconk, Norland and Area Chamber of Commerce provided an update on the $16 million Summit Wellness Centre to be built on the Legion Park site in Coboconk at the latest city council meeting.

Remembering Flora McCrea Eaton

Just in Time local history series

One hundred years ago, in 1923, the famed (yet nearly bankrupt) financier Sir Henry Pellatt was forced to give up his beloved Casa Loma, in midtown Toronto.

Youth sports send out mixed message for summer of 2020

Optimist Club hoping for a busy year with soccer for hundreds of kids

The Optimist Club, which has run recreational soccer in Lindsay for over three decades, is hoping the 2023 playing season will see more than 400 local youth suiting up to enjoy the so-called beautiful game.