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EARTHFEST, April 20 in Carleton Place

Second Annual EARTHFEST, April 20 in Carleton...

An Almonte baby boom

Springtime is often busy in the Almonte...

Brenda Edgerton — obituary

Edgerton, Brenda Pauline Brenda passed peacefully after fighting a...

By The Way with Bill Chapman

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Bill Chapman weekly column By the Way to end

After 7 years of loyally contributing to the Millstone, Bill Chapman has decided to end his weekly columns. Bill was one of our first contributors, sending us weekly Friday...

Trust Your Instincts

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are many things in life which confound me.  Being caught off balance should not however be the springboard from which to leap...

Maritime Sally

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It requires little in the way of ambition to lapse into utter lassitude in Key West. Certainly first acquainting oneself broadly with the...
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Alabama Nut Job

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. For the better part of the last decade we have been traveling to the United States of America...

Packing

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  Many, many years ago I saw for the first time a carriage clock.  The discovery was an enterprising...

Breaking the Barrier

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Though most of us haven't any hesitation about grousing from time to time we're normally less inclined to...

That magic feeling: nothing to do, nowhere to go!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. No doubt it sounds odd to wax lyrical about the doubtful virtue of having nothing to do, nowhere...

Caribbean Pasta II

  by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I don't believe I've ever been quite so smitten by the discovery of a new dish as I...

Sunday Valley Drive

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Everyone's talking about the weather!  It has been fabulous! For the past month we've had an unmitigated run of...

Caveat Emptor

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In the commercial environment it would not be an exaggeration to trumpet a wariness of youth.  While normally...

Sleepless night

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are some things we just don’t talk about.  Not necessarily because the topic is lewd or especially...

If this, then that

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Today while listening to Bloomberg radio I overheard the Chairman of IBM comment upon current computer programming by...

Give me the simple life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. No doubt every one of us would have a prescription for the simple life. Characteristically the simple life...

Overnight resolutions

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Oddly I sleep most profoundly when I succumb to an afternoon nap on the couch. It's not that...

That duty is performed…

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Years ago I began massaging a formula for living. It was nothing complicated or fancy.  In fact it...

Transcending humanity

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I don't for a minute imagine that we shall ever exceed our human limitations - whatever may be...

The Patent Fence

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.     Recently I was intrigued to hear an account of the construction of a cedar split-rail fence.  The narrative...
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