by Brad Holden | Dec 28, 2012 | News
JOHN BLOHM Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and all demeanors too. John Blohm, the Creemore Echo’s choice for our 2012 Volunteer of the Year, could be described as gruff, perhaps. On the wrong day, you might even call him grumpy. But get on the right side of...
by Brad Holden | Dec 28, 2012 | News
HIGHLAND WITHDRAWS While it’s been our tradition the past few years to pick an individual as our Newsmaker of the Year, we found that no one, or nothing, eclipsed the moment on Wednesday, November 21, when the public relations firm under contract with the Highland...
by Brad Holden | Dec 21, 2012 | News
You never know who might be lurking on your roof… photo by Helen Chung (with a few liberties taken!)
by Brad Holden | Dec 21, 2012 | News
Threatened with having to take the year off due to the teachers labour dispute, the Stayner Collegiate Institute Cybergnomes robotics team will instead compete this year as a special committee of Clearview Township Council. That decision was made unanimously at last...
by Brad Holden | Dec 21, 2012 | News
Pop-up retail has been a growing trend in cities around the world, and this Christmas, it’s arrived in Creemore. Marcy Stewart’s original plan was to open up in the old Creemore Meat Market space for the Santa Claus Parade weekend only, and to use it to sell not much...
by Brad Holden | Dec 13, 2012 | News
Creemore’s Hannah Whitley and Angus’s Elliott Graham, or “Whitley and Graham” as they may one day be called on an Olympic broadcast, were crowned the Pre-Novice Canadian Ice Dance Champions at the 2013 Skate Canada Challenge, held December 5 and 6 in Regina,...
