A few left standing

By Sharon McCully

They made a pledge 65 years ago to get together once a year, and there’d be a keg of whiskey waiting for the last guy standing.
Last weekend, a handful of veterans of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment who landed in France during the D-Day invasion, stood shoulder to shoulder

By Sharon McCully

It rolled onto the beaches of Normandy under a barrage of fire on D-Day and battled its way across France, Belgium and Holland carrying troops from the Sherbrooke Fusiliers regiment.

“It was too ambitious,” says festival fundraiser

By Sarah Rogers

As Kent Nagano and his Montreal Symphony Orchestra tuned up last weekend for their two-week run with the Orford Festival, it was a bitter reminder to many in Knowlton of what the community had lost.

Home Boy George Pinchin, 98, of Bulwer will be one of three guests of honour at the reunion.

By Kelly McDevitt

If you have an interest in local or Canadian history, the Compton County Historical Museum in Eaton Corner is the place to be this upcoming weekend. There, Quebec Home Children and their descendents will be reuniting to commemorate the hardships and celebrate the legacy of British Home Children.