Ah, the Newspaper …

When you pick up a newspaper, what do you read first?

Front page?
Local News?
Sports?
Obituaries?
Business?
Editorial?
Homes?
Movie guide?
or … perhaps … the Comics?
Even as newspapers shrink (classified ads, in-depth stories, pages, profits, staff), we still take our local daily, the Halifax ‘Chronicle Herald.’
There is still a tinge of discovery as we pluck it out of the box and unfurl the front page, to check the banner headline.
This news junkie also consults their on-line and e-editions several times per day, with alerts from them, and from CBC News, CNN, BBC News and NPR News.

A Great 'Small Town'

Small towns come up often in conversation, and are highly regarded ... in nostalgia.
Or, on the other hand, they get ‘a bad rap.’

The usual line goes: It was great to have been brought up in one, until … oh, until that day you felt the world (read ‘big city’) was passing you by.
Then, you couldn’t wait to get out and see the world!
For example, check out the biting lyrics in Paul Simon’s, ‘My Little Town,’ from 1975. Simon has stated that the song is not autobiographical; instead he says that it is about "someone who hates the town he grew up in. Somebody happy to get out."
But, I’m going to avoid nostalgia and praise a small town: Antigonish, N.S.
Recently, my wife underwent surgery at St. Martha’s Hospital, and I spent a week in town for support during her recovery.
I stayed at the nearby ’Maritime Inn,’ which has a room which is handicapped-equipped.
All I can say is in summary, the staff (as well as other townspeople) were great!
You notice right away that everyone seems to know everyone else,