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On Monday night, local residents can experience an authentic look at the rarely appreciated job of a tree-planter through Forest for the Trees

In this week's Everything King, Wendy rhymes off all of her favourite parts of the season, from changing colours and hot cider to maybe even a fireside chat with George Clooney

Canada’s talent pool was so deep the Soviets would be buried eight games in a row... or so we thought, writes reporter Bob Bruton

'From my first taste of homemade apple sauce, to enjoying a big slice of Gramma's apple pie with ice cream, to making my very first apple crisp as a budding young cook, the humble apple has always played its part,' writes food columnist

'In true British fashion, she just got on with it. It is doubtful we shall never see the likes of such a devoted public servant again,' Wendy writes in this week's column

The 'fast lane' seems to be the domain of the 'late-for-work' crowd, the jacked-up pickup truck warrior and the kamikaze sport-bike pilots, but should it be? As a regular Barrie-to-Toronto commuter, Kevin Lamb has a look

Little Lugnuts went undefeated all summer en route to Barrie Minor Baseball championship Saturday, but watching them grow as players and gel as a team is the real reward, writes editor Raymond Bowe

Leah Holder's Mary of Shanty Bay brings Mary O'Brien's story out of the shadows and into the limelight; 'We don’t hear a lot about how people lived day to day,' Holder says

Whether you're a fan of the Royal family or not, Shawn Gibson writes Queen Elizabeth II's death is also sad because she was a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother

Today marks the return to the classroom for many students, so in this week's column Wendy takes you through a slightly different alphabet