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by Pat Asling "O what a beautiful morning, O what a beautiful day! I have a beautiful feeling Everything's going my way!" That was Sunday...

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2 days ago5 min read
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by Pat Asling Rosana Eleanor Leprohon once wrote this poem Oh gladly do we welcome thee, Fair pleasant month of May. Month which we've...

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May 95 min read
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by Pat Asling This is last week's news, which I am commenting on. Some things have passed, and a few are still to come! It was Easter...

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May 14 min read
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by Pat Asling It is Easter Sunday as I write this. The world is in turmoil with a number of natural catastrophes here at home and on the...

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Apr 254 min read
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by Pat Asling Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope...

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Apr 164 min read
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by Pat Asling Well, what a week! I had just finished writing last week's news when my hydro went off, so I couldn't even make corrections...

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Apr 84 min read
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Upcoming closure on Regional Road 1 in Uxbridge
UXBRIDGE: The Regional Municipality of Durham is advising residents of a road closure on Regional Road 1 (Concession Road 7), between...

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Apr 81 min read
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by Pat Asling What a beautiful world, dangerous and treacherous as well. I am referring to what most of us woke up to Sunday morning....

The Standard
Apr 34 min read
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by Pat Asling It keeps trying, unsuccessfully so far, to make a comeback, snow and winter, that is. After a beautiful week where snow...

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Mar 265 min read
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by Pat Asling Already more than half of March will has melted away. We can only hope in the next few days most of that snow in your yard...

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Mar 196 min read
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Peter Bethlenfalvy wins third term as MPP for Pickering-Uxbridge
DARRYL KNIGHT Local Journalism Initiative Reporter for The Standard UXBRIDGE: Voters in the riding of Pickering-Uxbridge have once again...
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Mar 52 min read
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by Pat Asling One of the things I often think about these days is getting rid of some of my stuff and I am starting with saved magazines...
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Mar 55 min read
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by Pat Asling Who was it wanted snow? The funny thing is, nothing has been reported about what ski resorts think about all this. Usually,...

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Feb 195 min read
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by Pat Asling With all that has been going on between USA and Canada perhaps it is appropriate we start with recognizing the Canadian...

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Feb 123 min read
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by Pat Asling Happy Groundhog Day- just anything for a celebration! Groundhog's Holiday The second month, the second Day, We know is...

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Feb 55 min read
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by Patricia Asling It is the end of January already! I, for one, have little to show for the time, but I am not breaking any resolutions...

The Standard
Jan 304 min read
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Sandford Natural Gas Expansion Project comes to completion
DAN CEARNS The Standard UXBRIDGE: Energy minister Stephen Lecce and Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy were in Sandford, on Friday,...

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Jan 232 min read
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by Pat Asling Well, we are getting back into the swing of things again! The holidays are over and the decorations away, trees gone to...

The Standard
Jan 165 min read
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by Pat Asling A week into a new year already! Looking ahead it seems the world is in a bit of a mess and will get messier but we have to...

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Jan 93 min read
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by Pat Asling Another week of up and down temperatures! I only know that from looking through my kitchen window, at my exterior...

The Standard
Dec 21, 20243 min read
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