Author: Louise Sproule

The housing crunch has been happening here in Prescott-Russell for a few decades now. While we dismissed the need for affordable housing, thinking that it was for the unemployable and those who had dropped out of the labour mainstream, that notion has changed. Even two-income households cannot find affordable housing. As the price of homes

In many ways, the work world is upside down right now. But of most concern is that there is a shortage of workers. Restaurants need staff. Contractors are struggling to find workers to deal with the overload of work they have, teachers are leaving their profession and there is a shortage of frontline workers to

On August 10, neighbours, friends, and family of para-cyclist Joey Desjardins gathered at the usually inconspicuous intersection of Bangs Road and Greenlane Road in Champlain Township to give a patriotic send-off to the athlete who is representing Canada at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The fact that a local resident is competing internationally is impressive