Niverville’s town council recently introduced a rate hike for water utility customers in The Highlands and Fifth Avenue Estates. It’s the first rate hike these developments have seen since 2010. In past years, rates have climbed proportionately to the growth and improvement in water quality.

Île-des-Chênes may look like a sleepy bedroom community from the outside, but from within, there are clear indications of a vibrant, thriving mini-tropolis. Tall and proud, an imposing structure stands sentinel over the village of about 1,250 (according to the 2011 census): the TransCanada Centre (TCC).

A distinctive feature of older rural neighbourhoods is the shared well. Though wells may soon become a thing of the past here, unless you live in a newer development you are likely still connected to one.

The bucket list—a phrase coined to encompass all the things a person would like to do before they “kick the bucket.” Most of us have a list like this, which might include big life accomplishments or smaller, more attainable dreams.

This year, Niverville once again participated the provincial Communities in Bloom program, the goal of which is to beautify our town's streets, yards, and business.

It’s twilight on a sticky August evening five kilometres west of Niverville. As the sun dips below the treeline, Steve Schultz steers a John Deere S680 combine through a field of wheat pressed up against Provincial Road 200.