Editorial

Covering a Napanee Fair as a community reporter is a very different experience than attending a Napanee Fair as a parent of two kids. This weekend this reporter got to…

Perhaps one of the worst kept secrets in Greater Napanee was thrust into the spotlight at the July 25 council meeting. That ‘secret’ is this: there’s an obvious divide between…

At what point does an old building go from being obsolete to historical-or vice versa? That’s essentially the heart of the issue surrounding the fate of the Cartwright Building, which…

‘Pa’ is Polish for ‘bye,’ a farewell typically reserved for family members or good friends. That is just one of the many facts about Polish culture this reporter learned during…

Report the news, don’t become the news. That’s an old adage that has been passed down from journalism teacher to aspiring journalism student, presumably since the dawn of the profession….

On Saturday Canadians coast-to-coast will proudly display their red and white to celebrate our nation’s 156th anniversary of confederation. It feels like just yesterday we were all making a big…

Some 11 years ago, on a damp March afternoon, the ‘pop’ of cowhide baseball hitting leather gloves echoed across NDSS’ small gym. On the gym stage a net was being…

Generally speaking, news of Canada’s most notorious killer Paul Bernardo being transferred outside of Lennox and Addington would be good riddance. The further he gets from here, the better. And…

American folk humourist Samuel Clemens lived over 100 years ago, but his supposed words of wisdom on the importance of prime real estate still rings true today. Clemens, more famously…

If life were fair, no parent would ever have to endure the tragedy that Dave and Gwen Mills suffered when their teenage son Garrett was killed in a freak accident….