September 10, 2009 RSS feed / Mailbox

Two 'major threats' to our way of life

In the second half of the 20th century Ontario lost 49% of its farmland to development and today 53% of all vegetables consumed by people are imported. For every apple produced in Ontario five come from other countries. More...

Forests and Northern Ontario

Doug Skeates' column of 3 September made some interesting observations. Mr Skeates pondered why there are so few people living in northern Ontario. I wondered about that, too. More...

Melancthon council doesn't favour huge quarry

I would like to congratulate Melancthon Mayor Debbie Fawcett for having the courage to state that Council was "not in favour of a 2,400-acre quarry" at the Melancthon Council meeting Sept. 3, 2009. More...

Pork industry in crisis

As a longtime hog farmer and livestock agent from Melancthon Twp. for over 35 years I read with interest Doug Skeates article in the July 16th edition of the Free Press. More...

Article

I read the article in the paper about the Olympic Torch celebrations. It is unfortunate that it did not mention the involvement of former Olympians. It might have helped with our search of these athletes. More...