December 31, 2025
-by Frank Macdonald
By the time I was six, I had already grasped a child’s understanding of death. My grandmother, of whom I still have warm memories, used to, in her bed-ridden condition, sit me on her belly and sing “You can have him/I don’t want him/ he’s too fat for me…” Then tickle me giddy.
December 31, 2025
Dear Editor,
In response to the December 17th, 2025, article in The Oran, I would like to add a few comments that could give another perspective on the drastic decline in the moose population in Cape Breton. Bob Bancroft, biologist, and Steven Marshall’s comments about clearcutting may be correct and apply to Hunters Mountain but not for the remainder of the highlands. I am an avid outdoors man and have crisscrossed the highlands, from Chéticamp to Margaree Centre to Ingonish, including French, North, and South Mountains and halfway to Meat Cove on skis over the last 50 years. I have also hiked and explored a large segment of the mountains and valleys of Inverness and Victoria counties.
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