Summer companies, starter companies, ready to launch

Entrepreneurs, adolescent and adult, don’t stand alone when Leeds Grenville Summer Company and Starter Company Plus programs have their back. “These programs exist to generate interest and provide support for entrepreneurs in the region,” said Jeanette Johnston, the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville’s small business development officer. Thursday evening’s gathering was at the United […]

Antiques: Coat survives through wartime trauma 

Q This sheepskin coat was made by my Romanian great-grandparents over 110 years ago and is very special to me. I grew up on a grape farm in Siebenburgen (German for Transylvania), but in 1944 our family was evicted by Russian soldiers, who shipped us by wagon to a camp in Austria. I remember hiding many […]