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OPINION: Budget cuts punish St. Paul Library for fiscal responsibility

OPINION: Budget cuts punish St. Paul Library for fiscal responsibility

The decision by the County of St. Paul to cut $30,000 from its library budget is an appalling departure from its 2025 Operational Plan, which explicitly lists it will “adequately fund library services.
Celebrating and supporting our local sports teams

Celebrating and supporting our local sports teams

Something’s missing from spring in recent years

Something’s missing from spring in recent years

Back at the Ranch, weekly column by Vicki Brooker
Spring fever

Spring fever

After months of unending cold temperatures, brutal amounts of snow, and short days followed by long, dark evenings and nights, that season Canadians embrace with open arms is finally upon us.
LETTER: Not in support of basketball court along Lakeshore Drive in Bonnyville

LETTER: Not in support of basketball court along Lakeshore Drive in Bonnyville

I do not support the idea of putting up a basketball court along Lakeshore Drive [in Bonnyville]...
Radicalization and Candy Crush

Radicalization and Candy Crush

I just finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, who investigated the hideous effects social media has on our societies, and his conclusions were downright mundane at this point - I am so desensitized to the idea that we are all willingly partici
Remaining social and civil on social media

Remaining social and civil on social media

Health care: it's not always better in the city

Health care: it's not always better in the city

Living rural, you often hear people complain about the availability and quality of health care services.
OPINION: The stories I hear of the Earth

OPINION: The stories I hear of the Earth

Around the same time I began working on an article about oil drilling activities at Crane Lake, a book called ‘We Will Be Jaguars’ became available to me on my Library app.
Truth will come to light

Truth will come to light

Sitting at the front of the St. Paul library with the usual suspects for January’s book club meeting, I was struck by the common response to The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.
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