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WIT … Spider Eating?

We love spiders for the role they...

FOR SALE: Schwinn 470 Elliptical with User Manual

Two and a half years old but...

Spaghetti with Fresh Sausage

by Susan Hanna This recipe from Food and...

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PDFs and PNGs in Millstone submissions: Just say no

Those of us of a certain age will recall Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" slogan from her anti-drug campaign in the 1980s. In that vein, I'm asking you to please...

The Refugee Series – Nour el Tarsha and Khodor Jarouz

by Edith Cody-Rice The Millstone is publishing a short series on the lives of a some of the refugees who have come to Mississippi Mills from Syria and Ukraine since...

Note to readers of the daily email version of the Millstone: Duplicate images

We are aware of an issue with the daily email which leads to some images being duplicated. This is proving to be a fairly difficult problem to solve. Nothing has...
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‘Malformed XML’ breaks Millstone daily email

by Brent Eades A note to our daily email readers About 1,600 people each day read the email digest version of the Millstone that goes out...

No news tonight

by Brent Eades Well, I don't get to say that often. But there seems to be nothing new to report on this New Year's Eve 2019...

Millstone Internet down for now

Any other Bell Internet users having problems connecting tonight? I certainly am. After a long and fruitless wait for Bell tech support on the phone,...

More interesting stuff up here from now on

by Brent Eades I've had several friends point out that the main 'News' section at the top of the Millstone website doesn't change very often....

A Millstone night off

Some readers may know that I still have a day job in the city, at the Bank of Canada. I'm taking a few days off...

Classifieds scam warning

A reader advertising an item for sale in the Millstone received a reply that she rightly calls "very suspicious." See the full text at bottom;...

Humour me, click the Facebook ‘like’ button

For several years, one reliable way of knowing how many people enjoyed a given Millstone story was how often they clicked the Facebook 'like'...

Aaaand we’re back!

One of the interesting aspects of working on the web as long as I have -- 23 years now -- is discovering that there...

Municipal election coverage in the Millstone

Eagle-eyed visitors to the website will note that I've added an 'Election 2018' section to the main menu and to the home page (below...

Issues with Millstone daily email

About 1,400 people subscribe to the daily email version of the Millstone. Some of you -- but by no means all -- have not...

Millstone email may be a little screwy

I've been seeing some issues with photos not appearing in the daily email version of The Millstone. Somewhat ironically, I think this may ensue from...

Oh for CRYING out loud…

So the Millstone's web hosting company had a major technical meltdown last night, and I've lost three days worth of news as a result. The...

A note on Millstone commenting

First: you folks sure do like to comment on Millstone articles. In fact, you've done that 9,873 times since we set up the Disqus commenting...

ODTAA

What is ODTAA? It's what I often find myself muttering after the latest Millstone glitch: One Damn Thing After Another. This time it's the fact...
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