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When Sacha Welsh gave birth to her second daughter, Victoria, she thought she’d had a dream delivery. Victoria came into the world after just three pushes. But four hours later things took a bad turn for Ms Welsh. “I had the baby on my chest, and ...

Elizabeth “Betty” Musson Kawaley had her hair straightened the day her ship was supposed to leave for university in Canada. “It was what you did in those days if you were going somewhere special,” the 96-year-old remembered. But it was 1939, and th...

Bold Strokes, An exhibition by Michelle Smith Gallery One Seventeen, Front Street Dazzling. That is the adjective that hits you in the face when stepping into Front Street’s One Seventeen Gallery for this current exhibition by Michelle Smith. There a...

For Val Sherwood, the biggest challenge to writing a book about cats, was the cats themselves. When she first started, her eight cats miaowed, circled and jumped on the keyboard whenever she sat down to write. “I kept telling them they are all going ...

Last Tuesday the second session of the Junior Teams event took place and when the smoke had cleared the team of John Luebkemann, Delton Outerbridge, Tim Martin, Sharon Shanahan, Claude Guay and Lane Martin finished on top of the five-team field. The...

When she was 24, Shanna Henry had to make a difficult choice. Stick with a job she cared little about or pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a professional dancer. For a while she tried to do both, but found she was too exhausted at the end of the da...

For many years, due to my close relationship with folks from the United States, I have found myself the fortunate recipient of American Thanksgiving dinners. The rule in our house has always been that only wines from the US be served on these occasi...

Myah Bridgewater had the voice. Onuri Smith had great stage presence. Drama teacher Sarah Bowers thought they were perfect for Warwick Academy’s musical about the popular British rock band Queen. The only problem was the 15-year-olds weren’t entirely...

Corinne Pelletier came to Bermuda two months ago looking to try new things — weightlifting wasn’t one of them. Yet there she was on November 3, lifting a 250lb weight before an audience and winning the title in her category. “I never thought of mysel...

Doctors removed a tumour from Kenny Fray’s mouth and gave him five years to live. Nine years later he is still here, defying the odds. “I think I’m blessed,” he said. “I’m not complaining about anything.” His late wife, Brenda, was the first to noti...