Sophie Kuijper Dickson

Resisting the slop

The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year for 2025 was ‘slop’. No, not the food scraps thrown to a pig. But not far off. The

Welcome Pontiac’s first baby 

Mansfield residents Savanna Sanford and Philippe Cameron may be able to claim the title of having brought Pontiac’s first baby of 2026 into the world. 

What are we to you?

We’ve recently discovered a massive collection of old film negatives from decades of reporting we’ve done here. We’re slowly working to digitize them. You’ll see

Remembering Christmases Past

Great Grandpa’s Christmas  Eve surprise  Jen Mielke – Ladysmith It was Christmas in the late 1920s, when my great-grandfather, William Mielke, set his heart on

Santa slides through ‘Swisha

With just over a week left before Christmas, Santa Claus visited one last Pontiac community over the weekend to collect the Christmas wishes from children

Resisting the slop

The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year for 2025 was ‘slop’. No, not the food scraps thrown to a pig. But not far off. The modern-day slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in

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Welcome Pontiac’s first baby 

Mansfield residents Savanna Sanford and Philippe Cameron may be able to claim the title of having brought Pontiac’s first baby of 2026 into the world.  The newest addition to their family, Noah Daniel Cameron, was born at the Pembroke Regional

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What are we to you?

We’ve recently discovered a massive collection of old film negatives from decades of reporting we’ve done here. We’re slowly working to digitize them. You’ll see some Christmas moments pulled from this archive shared across the bottom of this newspaper.  Sprinkled

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Remembering Christmases Past

Great Grandpa’s Christmas  Eve surprise  Jen Mielke – Ladysmith It was Christmas in the late 1920s, when my great-grandfather, William Mielke, set his heart on giving my great-grandmother, Mathilda, a special gift – a brand-new gramophone. They didn’t have much

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Santa slides through ‘Swisha

With just over a week left before Christmas, Santa Claus visited one last Pontiac community over the weekend to collect the Christmas wishes from children living there before setting to work making their wishes come true.  On his visit to

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