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Plenty of fun planned for Dryden’s Winterfest

By Chris Marchand There are many reasons to stick close to town for the upcoming Family Day long weekend as Dryden gears up to host its annual winter festival Feb. 18-20. City of Dryden recreation department’s [...]

Classic consoles: Dryden District Museum exhibit explores history of video games

Classic consoles: Dryden District Museum exhibit explores history of video games

By Chris Marchand Go ahead, laugh all you want. There once was a time when it may have been reasonable to claim that video games were kids’ stuff. It is not a particularly extreme point of [...]

GALLERY: Meaningful moments at heart of Come Together 8

GALLERY: Meaningful moments at heart of Come Together 8

By Chris Marchand The spirit of togetherness was again rekindled on the stage of The Centre over the holidays as the eighth annual Come Together concert took to the stage, Dec. 27. Featuring over 30 local [...]

Come Together Concert celebrates eighth year with great lineup

Submitted by Carl Bleich The eighth annual Come Together concert is scheduled for Tuesday, December 27 at The Centre in Dryden. Auditorium doors open at 6:30 and as you enter local pianist Alex Lugli will ease [...]

The Best and the Brightest — A holiday lights tour of Dryden and area

The Best and the Brightest — A holiday lights tour of Dryden and area

By Chris Marchand I find it interesting how great Christmas light displays tend to happen in clusters, as though such luminous expressions of holiday cheer are contagious. To drive through a dead, sullen block to suddenly [...]

Colours of Christmas

Colours of Christmas

Performers in the Singing Christmas Tree concert at the Full Gospel Church performed to over 840 Drydenites and raised over $7,000 for the Dryden Food Bank in multiple shows this past weekend. Titled Colours of Christmas, [...]

Valdy headlines CP Holiday Train Dec. 3

By Dryden Observer Staff North America’s longest-running rolling food bank fundraiser is once again trekking across Canada and the U.S. Midwest and Northeast in its cross-border mission to feed communities. Canadian folk legend Valdy will headline [...]

Festival of Trees begins Nov. 24

Festival of Trees begins Nov. 24

By Ally Dunham The annual Festival of Trees celebration is gearing up for another sparkling, fun-filled three days at The Centre. Kicking off the festival on Thurs., Nov. 24 is the Free Seniors Afternoon from 1:30 [...]

Meditation retreat welcomes back Losang Samtem

The Venerable Losang Samten is returning to lead a third Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat in Dryden. The retreat will once again be hosted at Bonny Bay Camp on Sept. 16-18. There is still a chance to [...]

A month of Moosefest begins

The annual community festival, MooseFest, has now grown to almost five weeks in length. With many recurring events that are past favourites, there are also a host of new events on the agenda for this year. [...]