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A weekend review of news headlines as well as feature stories, columns and events happening in and around the Eastern Townships
Nolan Waterhouse posted on the Eastern Township Roots page last week that when the Waterhouse family settled in Sutton, Quebec, they built their log cabin against a huge rock. His fifth greatgrandfather, Francis Hogel Cook, first settled...
It’s an aggravating annual ritual: Quebec drivers awaken from winter to springtime, only to traverse a minefield of potholes and cracked, bumpy roads. Navigating them is worrisome, sometimes dangerous and often expensive. Later in the...
It has always fascinated and disturbed me how a decision made in a tiny fraction of a second can have deeply profound effects, from ending a life to radically altering the existence of those who survive. Like the bungled police raid on two...
For a few decades, I had a small, onepanel cartoon that I’d clipped out of a newspaper pinned up on the bulletin board in my home office. It showed a seated figure, with a pen in hand, bent over a desk. Next to his chair, and attached to his...