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Jan 12, 21 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Jenna Cocullo • No Comments
By Jenna Cocullo, Local Journalism Initiative Budget season is right around the corner, as municipal staff and council gear up for their first 2021 presentation and budget consultation. The process will look much different this year due to the COVID-19 public...
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May 5, 20 •
0 Views • Bruce Uncorked, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Great weekend weather lured the Corcorans outdoors, as even our teenager, Brenna, emerged from her cave. We tackled some yard work on Saturday and sipped beverages Sunday. On Saturday, we trimmed the heck out of our weigela bush at the back of the yard,...
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May 1, 20 •
0 Views • COVID-19, Feature Story, Life • Bruce Corcoran • 1 Comment
By Bruce Corcoran Thursday night’s online meeting to discuss plans for the May 16 Miracle in Chatham-Kent got Zoombombed. The event, where upwards of 240 people connected online via the Zoom virtual meeting app, got hacked less than 30 minutes in, according...
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Apr 1, 20 •
0 Views • COVID-19, Feature Story, Life • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
By Bruce Corcoran When the kids of Chatham-Kent can’t come to you, you go to the kids – virtually. Be it karate instruction, dance class or music lessons, the teachers are reaching out via the Internet to help their students remain connected and learning...
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Oct 16, 18 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Chatham Voice • No Comments
Online and advanced poll voting are up this year for the 2018 municipal election, as compared to 2014. Nearly 9,800 voted online this year, compared to just over 7,300 four years ago. In terms of advanced poll voting, nearly 2,300 people used them this time...
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Oct 14, 15 •
0 Views • Bruce Uncorked, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Chatham-Kent residents are amazing at these two things: community involvement and voting online. The Aviva Community Fund competition combines the two, so we should fare quite well. The only problem is there are five different local entries in the fund...
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Jul 1, 15 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
The Chatham-Kent Police Service is going high-tech with its annual auction of seized or found property, and expecting to raise more money in the process. The Police Services Board recently approved the shift from live auction to online hawking of wares....
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Apr 2, 15 •
0 Views • Arts, Feature Story • Jim Blake • 8 Comments
In less than a month, an all-local online radio station went from an idea on social media to reality. Radio CK (radiock.ca) was conceived by Thamesville actor and film producer Florin Marksteiner as a way to provide a non-profit platform for local musicians,...
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Oct 21, 14 •
179 Views • Business • Chatham Voice • 1 Comment
Local editing firm Scribendi.com has launched its first online training course on Udemy. The course, “How to Write an Essay in Five Easy Steps,” is now available on Udemy, the world’s largest online learning platform. “As one of the world’s...
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Oct 10, 13 •
506 Views • Feature Story, Viewpoint • Jim Blake • No Comments
You shouldn’t be reading this – especially our print edition. Newspapers were supposed to have been eliminated by that new thing called the World Wide Web (which is 22 years old, by the way). Before that we, were being bumped off by network television,...
