Opinion

Editor: Congratulations on last week’s Agriculture Edition of The Echo – excellent work! This special edition was great to see and I hope that it is just the beginning of sequels that will share the experiences and lives of other farmers within our area. I would like to offer some additional [...]

Editor: We would like to say the Farm Edition was terrific. How wonderful to single out these hard working people and give them the praise they deserve. The articles were informative and well researched with happy photos as well. We all need to sit back and thank the men, women and children who [...]

Editor: Evidence of the importance of a community newspaper is at the fingertips of Creemore Echo readers with the Farm Edition published recently. Our Simcoe County Board of Education schools would do well to get copies and use content from this excellent edition to tie to lessons about [...]

Editor: Congratulations, Creemore Echo, on the publication of the agriculture special. When I was quite young all farming was done with horses. The typical farm was 100 acres and farm families lived well. Nothing lavish, I assure you, but well. It has been interesting over my life to observe [...]

  Editor: Many thanks to The Creemore Echo for the informative review on the current and future of farming in Clearview and area. I learned many new things about farmers in our community. As graduates of the University of Guelph and owners of farms, my husband and I have been able to see the [...]

Public health is a sector within Canada’s health care system that frequently works in the background and often goes unnoticed when things are well. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, public health agencies across Canada and around the world moved into the spotlight and stayed there [...]

With agriculture being a primary industry locally, The Creemore Echo set out to tell the stories of some of the farm families that make up an important sector of our local economy. We thank all those who welcomed us into their homes and barns and were willing to share the ins and outs of their [...]

The dictionary defines wellness as “the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal”. This is a very succinct and action-oriented definition, but what does good health actually mean? Many wellness practitioners (myself included) would say good health [...]

On April 8, from approximately 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., there will be a rare total solar eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between Earth and the sun. While the sky will darken and bright stars and planets may emerge, looking at the sun without eye protection, even if only briefly [...]

This year we have been telling the stories of the first mail deliveries to this area. We are talking about the days when Stayner was just a howling wilderness and Collingwood was just a big wet swamp with rabbits running through. When the story left off in March we were reading an account of an [...]