Category: Blackfly Buzz

Brenda Goodine James Fallows is an Atlantic Magazine national correspondent who, with his wife, has been visiting smallish cities and towns as part of a project called “American Futures”, where promising feats of economic or cultural reinvention are underway.   In his article in the January/February 2014 issue of...

Stephanie Kelley Mark your calendar and get ready to participate in the first annual Tomlinson Lake Snowshoe to Freedom event on Saturday, March 8th. This promises to be a fun-filled day of history, learning, exercise and connection with the natural world at the final destination point of North America’s...

By Francine St. Amand As I learn more about the opportunities which are lounging around dormant until we awake them, I feel like pulling the blankets over my head and hiding until all this economic chaos passes.   You see, on the one hand, I want to stay firmly...

By Brenda Goodine On a long cold night in winter, the Village of Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, a small community near the Appalachian Range snuggles in upon itself. Under a cover of wood smoke from “The Castle Inn”, quieted by huge snowbanks and the red rock fortress on either side...

Stephanie Kelley As any coach in any one of our community sports programs will tell you, it’s difficult to cover the many costs of managing and maintaining the teams. There are uniforms to purchase, entry fees for tournaments, travel costs, equipment…the list is endless! PAMs Varsity and JV Coach...

by Francine St.Amand The Flood of 2012 wiped out 100+ jobs in the Village of Perth-Andover. To my knowledge, no attempt has been made to replace those jobs. Being an election year, I would urge everyone to hammer out that reminder to politicians.   Writing this series on Alternative...

Stephanie Kelley Southern Victoria Minor Hockey got a welcome financial boost recently in the form of a generous $1,000 cheque from the Perth-Andover Scotiabank. Scotiabank is the bank of Canadian Hockey and as such donates hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to Minor Hockey programs in all communities throughout...

Alternative Employment and Shared Economy By Francine St.Amand Call it Shared Living, Cooperative Household, Collective Housing , Alternative Living. The Golden Girls of the 1980’s sitcom were on to something. Maybe it was a preview of what was to come as a necessary choice some three decades later.  ...

We post a number of public service announcements in the Blackfly, and we always include a little notice to tell folks about the times and dates of the TobiCrafters Quilting Bees. I didn’t know anything about the group….but I was curious so I contacted Beatrice Lockhart to find out...

Southern Victoria High School hosted the JV Valhalla Basketball Tournament on January 2nd and 3rd. The Woodstock Thunder Senior Exhibition Team took the Championship Banner, but the JV Vikings were thrilled to come away with the second place trophy after a valiantly played 3 game series.   A crowd...