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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...

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Letter from Paris: Hot Times for Seniors in Paris

by Keith Spicer Planning to let loose on that long-dreamt getaway to the City of Light? You can probably handle sightseeing yourself with a good guidebook or, better, a professional guide, but...

Who’s left on the right?

“Well, the one on the right was on the left And the one in the middle was on the right And the one on the left was in the middle And the...

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...
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This is the story about the pool

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. This afternoon a young girl in a dripping wet bathing suit danced excitedly about the edge of the...

Private Vernacular

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It has to be the great conciliation of life's struggle that one finally succumbs to living it as...

City Slickers

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Lately, the Town of Mississippi Mills has been beleaguered by comparatively high-stake controversies involving a modified hydro plant,...

Episode at Whole Foods Market

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In the context of Canadian grocery shopping, I have discovered that Farm Boy is in the category of...

Drawing the line

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is fatuous to pretend we haven't been brainwashed. Years of reading the same stuff and listening to the...

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I have never considered myself especially anticipatory. It would, for example, attach unwarranted credit to my forward-thinking skills...

I believe…

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When I was studying law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia between 1970 - 1973 I attended...

Chronicle

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Over coffee this morning, alone at the dining room table, I sat inert staring out the picture windows onto...

Prescription for happiness

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Many times over the past several years during our winter sojourn on Hilton Head Island I have marvelled at what...

The measure of a meal

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Apparently. there are some for whom a meal is at best an imperative, not exactly a take-it or...

Settling back in, nouns of address, Cuban rum and cigars

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Within hours of our return home yesterday we had unpacked, put away the suitcases, beach bags and computers,...

Now what?  Popularity puppet in the Nut House!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Politics and popularity have forever been conjoined.  It's the name of the game. It was, however, disturbingly unfamiliar...

A1A Florida

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. We propose a short road trip to Florida.  The fastest route from Hilton Head Island, SC is along Interstate...

Longboat Key Road

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Everyone knows Florida is a magnet for northern short-term vacationers ("tourists") and long-term sojourners ("snowbirds").  Apart from the...
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