Stephanie Kelley Finally…The end is nigh for the latest Great Flood Relocation Program!   After months of delays, set-backs, game play changes and excruciating waits on everything for everybody, the last two inhabited homes will be moved in a couple of days as I write this.   This is...

(title credit to Mayor Ritchie) By Al McPhail The mayor published “a rant in three parts” under this title on Facebook late last week. Upon first (and second and third reading) I was incredibly upset, mostly because as is often the case, he presented his opinion as if it...

A rant in 2 parts Al McPhail Part 1 Now, the hard part. How do we get our village on the right road again? How do we make ourselves whole? The past couple of years have been the most challenging in the history of our village. We are facing...

On the surface of our world right now There is war, violence, and craziness And things may seem dark. But calmly and quietly At the same time Something is happening underground. An inner revolution is taking place And certain individuals Are being called to a higher light. It is...

Some fine morning Some fine day All of us will come to A parting of the way, Born for by and by The cruising of due season Quick shortness of our living Unravelling of reason, Nonchalant risk of nuance With no space to spare Self abandoned to time’s shelf...

Stephanie Kelley Another shelter adoption success story! String Bean found her forever home a couple of weeks ago. She’d been at the shelter the longest of all the cats, and deserved to finally have a real home of her own.   String Bean was found, along with her three...

Big Tig here,   I was laying around, waiting for Angie to fill up my food dish, (seems that it is always empty. Angie says it’s me that keeps it empty. I say it’s the dogs. It’s an ongoing debate between us), reading my fan mail and I realized that some...

Music in the River Valley! Stephanie Kelley The Village of Perth-Andover gained a new resident last October when classical musician and cellist Emmanuel Ortega moved to town to coordinate the Sistema New Brunswick youth music program at Mah Sos School at Tobique First Nation. This is the fourth community...

Stephanie Kelley Local folks have been stepping up to the plate with some great new ideas for ways to revitalize our local communities, and to repurpose flood prone land in Perth-Andover. At the most recent council meeting in Perth, Dilys Sabine presented her thoughts on creating a local Equestrian...

Stephanie Kelley One of the best ways for a ruling class to conquer any civilization is to cause it to defeat itself through internal strife and then to step in to pick up the pieces. This scenario is being played out in New Brunswick right now, with a vitriolic...