A little mood music, please…
By Laurie Snider Notes From The Nest If I’m out driving in my SUV, approaching the lights near our home and a good tune comes on the radio, often times,…
Opinion
In praise of the Napanee Fair
It’s a truism to say that communities change over time. People come and go, and landscapes are forever altered. However, there are also constants that make communities what they are…
Hitting the shelves this month
By Catherine Coles Coles Notes As the summer winds down, literary fiction releases ramp up just in time for literary award season. The following three literary fiction books are highly…
The Cartwrights and the Napanee Golf & Country Club
The Napanee Golf and Country Club is certainly deserving of your article, ‘NGCC Celebrates 120 year history’, in your Aug. 3 edition. It should be noted, however, that Sir Richard…
The origins of SPWC
By Marilyn Kendall On The Wild Side The following is a monthly column designed to teach local residents about the wild animals that live among us. Marilyn Kendall is writing…
No profit from bad business
Often, there is a price to pay for standing up for principle. The federal Liberal government could be facing that prospect very shortly. A few years ago — before the…
Local driving habits are a problem
Walking and driving around Napanee one cannot help but notice a number of troubling behaviours exhibited by today’s motorists. In most of urban Napanee the speed limit is 50 kilometres…
Staff Picks: The Dry
By Catherine Coles Coles Notes Marg Wood of the Napanee Branch, recently enjoyed The Dry, a thriller that was suggested to her by a patron. “The Dry, set in a…
Third-party planning is preferable
Re: ‘Time to bring planning in-house’, Napanee Beaver, July 27. While it was clearly not Mr. Hogle’s intention with his impassioned plea to bring planning ‘in house’, his stated desire…
Urban forest hasn’t been neglected
After reading Gale Rogers’ letter to the editor, ‘Urban forest still being neglected,’ in The Napanee Beaver on July 27, I feel it necessary to set the record straight. The…