Newsroom Notebook: Hi, Windsor
Hello, Windsor Times readers. I’m happy to meet you, but we’ve met before, haven’t we?
Country Roads: Grateful
Everyone I meet believes this year has flown by. True, we lost weeks immersed in a fire storm. But, even that doesn’t explain why the months seem shorter. Before the fires, the winter had morphed into summer and summer into what? Thanksgiving.
Cannabis Country: Meet the new generation
At the age of 22, I didn’t drink alcohol or smoke marijuana, either. I didn’t know anything about pot, though I assumed it was a dangerous drug that would damage my brain. As a student I didn’t want to fry my precious brain cells.
Snapshot: Two Rockies, One Range
Although lumped together as the “Rockies,” the Canadian and American Rockies are quite different, reports Pierre Ratte.
Decoding Teenagers : Tick tock
It’s mid-August. That means a farewell to summer and the start of a new school year. The lazy days and late nights will once again turn into early mornings and hectic evenings.
Remembering: A meditation on Memorial Day
The Memorial Day holiday has become a day with dual and contrasting sets of activities and mindsets. Memorial Day is both a solemn occasion for remembering and honoring our war dead and it is also the “unofficial” beginning of warm weather picnics, outdoor activities and family gatherings.
Our fire services quilt
If we didn’t know it before, it should be painfully obvious by now that our future fire protection services, energy utility bills and many local special taxes will all cost us more in our immediate future — and forever.
