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JIM FURLONG | Who Are You?

Posted on February 25, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Opinion, Politics, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

*The following column appeared in the February 20 – 26, 2022 issue
What is my question to the members of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that held Ottawa and some other places hostage recently.
You said you were a trucker convoy, but you became something else and that was a very

Tags: Canada, column, convoy, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Jim Furlong, Justin Trudeau, masking, op-ed, Ottawa, pandemic, protestors

This Week Inside The Herald

Posted on February 17, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Sports, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6nfZLCnJ8

This week, it’s wellness Gill Whelan style, Hockey Hall-of-Famer Danielle Goyette makes ECHL history with the NL Growlers, in conversation with Ben Cleary, one of Atlantic Canada’s top journalist, and learn about the art of unpolished living in Grates Cove!

Tags: Ben Cleary, Danielle Goyette, ECHL, Grates Cove, NL Growlers, NTV, Whelan Wellness

JIM FURLONG | Valentine Tears

Posted on February 14, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I sat down to the computer a few days ago to write something meaningful about Valentine’s Day, but I became distracted for a particularly good reason so I gave up.
I knew something of the tradition of St. Valentine’s Day, but the words would not come easily. It’s because thoughts

Tags: Jim Furlong, Ocean Ranger, op-ed, tragedy, Valentine's Day

Song For The Moment

Posted on February 14, 2022
By Herald Staff
on From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

It’s been forty years, but the impact is still felt for many across the province, country and beyond. Atlantic Blue by Ron Hynes captured that in song

By: Russell Bowers

In the four decades since the tragedy of the Ocean Ranger, the impact of that event resonates still

Tags: Atlantic Blue, CBC, Glen Tilley, Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, Ocean Ranger, Ron Hynes, traditional music

JIM FURLONG | I am So Tired of It

Posted on February 13, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I don’t exactly “need my head examined” as my mom used to say in the politically incorrect days of yore, but there’s no question that these times of isolation are starting to get me down.
I expect it’s like that for a lot of us. Surely to God there must

Tags: column, COVID-19, Jim Furlong, op-ed, pandemic, restrictions, vaccinations

PAM PARDY| Relationship Goals

Posted on February 12, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on FILM & TV, From The Archives, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

Back in the day, my love aspirations were based on couples I’d seen on my favourite soaps. To fall in love just like Bo Brady and Hope Williams was probably the biggest goal in my younger life.
Oh! To have someone call me ‘Fancy Face’ as I set my wide

Tags: column, love, op-ed, Pam Pardy, soap operas, television, Valentine's Day

Remembering the Ocean Ranger

Posted on February 10, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Books, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

In this special commemorative edition of The Herald, we reflect 40 years after the tragedy of the Ocean Ranger with then rookie reporter, NTV’s Glen Carter. Carter, who is set to retire in March, 2022, looks back over his last four decades in television. Plus, Swept Away by Darrell Duke,

Tags: Atlantic Blue, Buddy The Puffin, Cardiac Month, Darrell Duke, ECHL, Glen Carter, Grates Cove, NTV, NTV Evening Newshour, Ocean Ranger, Ron Hynes, Swept Away, Video

Right at Home: Michael Connors

Posted on January 28, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Art, Books, Business, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Made Right Here, News, Politics, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

NTV’s Legislative Reporter/Assistant News Director, Michael Connors is at home behind the anchor desk and inside the newsroom, but what’s the untold story once this esteemed journalist takes off the jacket and tie and calls it a day
If you think Michael Connors and his family talk politics around the

Tags: family, father, husband, Journalism, Michael Connors, Newfoundland and Labrador, News, NTV

Jim Furlong: The Right to be Wrong

Posted on January 26, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I was angry first and then sad. I had my COVID booster shot last week. It was just before those anti-vax protesters, operating out of ignorance rather than malice, shut down a COVID vaccine clinic on Topsail Road.
The clinic was for seniors, like me, over 70. I lined up

Tags: column, COVID-19, Jim Furlong, op-ed, pandemic, protestors

Get Rid of ‘Da Vid’

Posted on January 26, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, Comedy, Entertainment, From The Archives, Health, Inspirational, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said everyone would eventually catch the virus. Still, when I saw that blue line on the rapid test just after the New Year, I was in disbelief. With all the travel and going I’ve done, you kind of get to feeling a little invincible, or at least

Tags: column, COVID-19, illness, op-ed, Pam Pardy, pandemic