Editorial


BESS this mess

Objections from neighbours notwithstanding, Greater Napanee council gave the thumbs up to three separate battery energy storage systems (BESS) at last week’s meeting. The decision came two weeks after council…


Bright Lights missed this holiday season

For the first time since 2010, Greater Napanee’s downtown core won’t be illuminated by over 750,000 Christmas lights this holiday season. Instead the popular Big Bright Light show has shifted…


Our Town was this town

A mere column’s width away from this editorial (in the print edition, anyway), the end of an era is taking place. Just to the right of this text resides the…


Holocaust stories need to be told in classrooms

Ontario’s government made a timely announcement last week when they unveiled plans to expand its mandatory Holocaust education for Grade 10 students. With Remembrance Day ceremonies taking place across the…


Decades of history goes up in smoke

A crucial link to Napanee’s past and present was lost in the early morning of Oct. 23 when the Agricultural Memorial Community Centre was destroyed by fire. Opened in 1955,…



Trying to make sense of the Israel-Hamas war

Journalists are often expected to know a little about everything. Regardless of the subject matter, if there’s a major event happening in the world, it’s been this reporter’s experience that…


Minimum wage is not a livable wage

Ontario’s minimum wage workers should notice a slight increase in their paycheques this week. On Oct. 1 the province’s new minimum wage officially kicked in, rising to $16.55 an hour,…


Time to support local journalism

Editor’s note: the week of Oct. 1-7 is National Newspapers Week across Canada, a chance to reflect on the essential service newspapers provide with diverse, local, original content that can’t…


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