Opinion

BY SAMUEL PICCOLO The VOICE I first saw Mont Saint-Michel, the famous abbey in coastal France, built on a rocky outpost that becomes an island at high tide, in a film. Two characters speed along…

BY JANE BEDARD Special to the VOICE A guy walks into an Elite Car Dealership and the sales rep says… Nothing. He says nothing. Doesn’t even acknowledge the guy. Why. As the rep leaves to…

  BY JIM PITT Special to the VOICE There was a guy selling cut-price men’s suits who used to advertise on late-night television. He ended his spiel with the line, “An educated consumer is our best…

Why so serious when it comes to passports BY COLIN BREZICKI Special to the VOICE Recently, I heard an American journalist remark that there’s nothing funny in Canadian literature. On the same day, as if…

        The logos appearing above represent professional associations with which the Voice is affiliated. As we reached our 21st year of reporting the news of Pelham’s villages— of its people, businesses, events,…

Decimated by Dewey, now at home on the shelf BY COLIN BREZICKI Special to the VOICE As a child I felt intimidated by librarians, though I’ve come a long way since then. Now they just…

  This Thursday evening the Town of Pelham will send its lawyer to Regional Council in an effort to gain access to $13.5 million dollars in short-term loans, money needed to finish construction of the…

BY JIM PITT Special to the VOICE A CIBC survey in 2012 showed that 60% of retirees in Canada were in debt. By 2016 that number had grown to 66%. Some 25% of these indebted…

  Observing the continued conduct of Pelham Town Council brings to mind a group of people turning lemons into lemonade, spilling it, and then, while waiting for someone else to come and clean it up,…