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Grant or sponsorship, nixing request the right move
Sponsorship or grant, council made the right decision by not immediately approving a request to financially support a new Elgin Business Resource Centre and St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commer… more →
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Worcester Central Resumes Service!
wrote 2 months ago: After an absence of several years, and the long-awaited renovation of Foregate Street Railway Bridge … more →
Grant or sponsorship, nixing request the right move
wrote 3 months ago: Sponsorship or grant, council made the right decision by not immediately approving a request to fina … more →
THE BATTLE FOR NEWCASTLE CITY
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wrote 3 months ago: The citizens of Newcastle NSW are being taken for a ride. Or rather, they’re not being taken f … more →
Questions need to be asked about hospital's $13 million ask
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wrote 6 months ago: The redevelopment undertaking at St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital was re-scoped earlier this year b … more →
Question of compensation dogs former Ascent chairman
wrote 8 months ago: The retirement of Ascent (formerly St. Thomas Holdings Inc.) CEO Brian Hollywood at the end of June … more →
There's life - and pressing concerns - beyond the GTA
wrote 9 months ago: Two examples this week to illustrate Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complete disdain for life beyond the … more →
An ambitious plan to elevate the status of St. Thomas
wrote 9 months ago: At Monday’s city council meeting, Matt Janes, representing On Track St. Thomas, will officiall … more →
Sorry, we're very busy getting our house in order
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s a gutsy call . . . turning down an opportunity to have St. Thomas profiled on the Oprah W … more →
Squamish Railway Heritage Park
wrote 2 years ago: Looking for something fun and educational to do with the kids on your way to Whistler? Come and expe … more →
Bid to save Railway Heritage Committee
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wrote 2 years ago: LMS Stanier Class 3P 2-6-2T and buffer-stops at Bradford Exchange Station in April 1961. The locomot … more →
MPP Steve Peters to be first tenant in restored CASO station
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wrote 2 years ago: CASO station, St. Thomas ST. THOMAS – A change of scenery is about to happen for constituents who vi … more →
How could you turn down a sweet deal like this?
wrote 3 years ago: If the landlord offered to cut your rent in half and extend the lease at that rate for 10 years, you … more →
Investing in our past keeps us on track for a brighter tomorrow
wrote 3 years ago: The crew over at the Elgin County Railway Museum, in addition to their yeoman service as guardians o … more →
Investment in Rail History Tourism in St. Thomas
wrote 3 years ago: CASO station, St. Thomas The devastating blows to the St. Thomas economy has encouraged the strength … more →
Guardian of the Longbridge and the Foregate Bridge...
wrote 3 years ago: In Geoffrey Hill’s poem “Mercian Hymns”, the Anglo-Saxon ruler Offa is, amongst hi … more →
St. Thomas and Elgin County Railway Museum purchase railway lands
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wrote 3 years ago: From the Times-Journal The future of St. Thomas’s railway heritage brightened considerably Tue … more →
Great Train Show
wrote 4 years ago: Recently I recorded an excerpt for ABC Local for their Great Train Show episode 36. To hear what I h … more →
A Railway Heritage, Swindon, Wiltshire
wrote 5 years ago: It is interesting that we are often enamoured by all things old and neglect the novel beauty of the … more →
