Like many housewives who survived the Great Depression of the dirt thirties, my mother was frugal to a fault. Twenty years later, her single guilty pleasure was the monthly purchase of McCall’s ...

Millennium Trail users are reminded that all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and dirt bikes are not permitted on the trail in winter months once grooming operations have started. Grooming is now underway.

A group of keen knitters and yarn crafters have been meeting at the Milford Branch Library every Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. for many years now. More than just an opportunity to work on their latest ...

Millennium Trail users are reminded that all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and dirt bikes are not permitted on the trail in winter months once grooming operations have started. Grooming is now underway.

Hippocrates was very correct when he said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Your digestive tract is the fundamental basis of whole-body health. Until you heal your GI tract and nurture a vibrant and ...

When the battle of the sexes is waged in the hen house. the fate of the rooster is nothing to crow about. While most backyard chicken owners are excited to have hens, “roos” are seldom as welcome.

A public school child of the ’50s, the term “snow day” was unknown to me. Living on The Commons (Hill Street), my young neighbourhood friends and I trekked a mile to Mary Street School every morning, ...

Seduction in the supermarket does not always leave the customer with “that lovin’ feeling.” While walking the aisles of a local store with a large grocery section, I saw a sign above a freezer case, ...

In the 1950s, meals on The Commons (Hill Street) sometimes included dishes with intriguing names, among them Apple Pan Dowdy, Sour Cream Pie, and Prune Whip. My grandmother, who was a “from scratch” ...