Editorial

Welcome to 2024 and the first edition of volume 155 of the Napanee Beaver. Along with ringing in the new year we also celebrated a birthday, as the Beaver was first…

Crazy as the following may seem, this is the last print edition of the Napanee Beaver for the year 2023. Rest assured, we’ll be back in print on Jan. 11,…

Equal parts laughter and tears were shared Saturday afternoon in the crowded gymnasium of Newburgh Public School. On stage the cast of the Community Christmas Concert were performing their final…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Last week this reporter had a unique chance to turn back to clock so to speak and sit in on a high school class at Napanee District Secondary School. Though…

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…