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The Sea of Tranquility

By Jerry Wilson The full moon rose fat and placid looking behind wispy clouds on Good Friday. We were on our way back from Kenora. On every stretch of highway that pointed southeast the moon was [...]

Downtown is re-inventing itself, let’s celebrate it

Submitted by Mardi-Lee Plomp Can you see it? Can you feel it? The face of Dryden is changing as the downtown revitalizes and looks to the future. The doom and gloom attitude that was once so [...]

Early agricultural experiments in the Dryden area

By Mel Fisher Our Wabigoon Clay Belt is unique, when it comes to agriculture – Rainy River district is more like Manitoba, and Thunder Bay district has different soil and a cooler, less sunny summer climate. [...]

Local Citizens Advisory Committee could be so much more

By Chris Marchand As spring sweeps across our landscape a bit early, some residents are already returning to find some of their favourite backcountry haunts not exactly as they left them. Last week I met with [...]

The dangers of dabbling in propaganda

The game has new rules. The next 27 minutes are an experiment, but in order for it to work you have to pay attention. — Jason Russell, Invisible Children — from Kony 2012   Three weeks [...]

Why is hard work mistaken for luck?

I could almost hear their voices. You must have a really good camera, or something. It’s funny how people never seem to wonder how it is I found myself bracing my tripod from a buffeting sub-zero [...]

Don’t stop talking now, Dryden

By Chris Marchand I think the fact that four people have stepped forward as candidates for a single vacant seat on city council is awfully impressive. While it may be shortsighted to say that this city [...]

EDITORIAL: The only thing we have to fear is …Vic Toews

I can’t help but agree with reader Adam Riley’s letter to the editor on the right. The poisonous hot air emanating from our Conservative government’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews in regards to a very dangerous [...]

Next… on Survivor: Dryden City Council

The recent machinations over at the City of Dryden are starting to give reality TV a run for its money. It would be entertaining as hell if it weren’t so terrifying. We could all tune into [...]

A message from Dryden’s city manager, Joe van Koeverden

By Joe van Koeverden, Dryden City Manager We have just completed a difficult budget process and now will need to focus on the work at hand to ensure a successful implementation of the operating guidelines required to [...]