Being stuck inside has its ups and downs, and a big downside rears its head when birthdays roll around. Put simply, we need to find ways to celebrate birthdays differently. While these celebrations can be disappointing, adults at least understand why in-person parties need to be called off.

Easter has traditionally been the one Sunday every year with the most people in church. This Easter, our church buildings will be empty, and there will even be no family celebrations, let alone public celebrations.

On Friday, April 10, local recording artist Jordan St. Cyr will release the first single of his newest EP. The title of the song is “Fires,” and the rest of the six-track EP will be coming out on May 15.

Our regional health authority, Southern Health-Santé Sud, has a message for everyone in southeastern Manitoba as we head into the Easter long weekend.

Niverville’s council met on the morning of April 7 to discuss a variety of items on the town’s agenda—most of which included measures to fight the pandemic.

Children and isolation—those are two words that don’t belong together in a sentence, let alone in real life. But these are strange times and, for the time being, parents everywhere are having to convince their restless children that the greater good trumps their own need for social interaction.

While the community as a whole has been doing its part to physically distance during this time, for some people it could be a matter of life or death. For those with weakened or suppressed immune systems, it’s critically important that they remain clean and healthy.

For the past week or two, many of us have been living in some level of isolation, whether it’s full lockdown or partial isolation where you venture out for mere essentials.

With spring-like temperatures warming up our thermostats earlier this week, snow began to quickly disappear. By Wednesday, our yards and fields were more than 90 percent thawed. But due to the high precipitation we received in fall, soil moisture levels are projected to be high over the next few weeks.

Our local municipal governments are taking extra steps during the COVID-19 pandemic to help keep people safe and minimize the spread of the virus.