Spotlight Staff Summer is a season of relaxation, especially for school-aged children who are not yet old enough to work. Such youngsters no doubt enjoy the chance to spend summer lounging poolside or at the beach. Though summer is synonymous…

Express Staff The biannual bench show and annual Smoky River Mud Bogs were held in Donnelly this past weekend. The bench show, held in the main gym at Georges P. Vanier, featured a variety of exhibits, including quilts. The judging…

Normand Boulet, CCA Agricultural Fieldman M.D. of Smoky River No. 130 Over the next month, along with our regular weed and pest inspection duties you’ll be seeing M.D. of Smoky staff doing some things that might make you scratch your…

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may feel a bit disconnected from your feelings this week. It’s alright to pull back for a time and get things straight in your head. Things will soon return to the status quo.…

by Tom Henihan The issue of plagiarism regarding Melania Trump’s speech was more amusing than serious, especially considering that virtually everyone in the political arena is scripted. The entire enterprise is a fiction, a staged fabrication; only when there is…
Good ol’ time at the fourth annual Hoedown Jamboree

Richard Froese Spotlight Toes were tapping and hands were clapping at the fourth annual Country Hoedown on July 22-24 in Triangle at the Pioneer Threshermen’s Association grounds. “We had a crowd estimated at 1,000 people, similar to last year,” says…