Where are the Cobourg Stories?????

Once again Northumberland Today provides stories by writers outside Cobourg about situations in the community of the author, not Cobourg. Today's story, "The final frontier: the best is yet to come" is yet another example of the local paper serving non-local stories. It's not like Cobourgers want to read a single word written by a Cobourger about long ago stories of Cobourg.

"Fifty years ago, the Canadian government announced to the world its plan to be the third country to launch its own satellite into space. Recently, reporter Michael Purvis profiled Sault Ste Marie resident Jack Dacey, 79, who was working at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment in Ottawa at the time, testing electronic equipment for the military, and developing some of the first solar cells. Of course, Sault Ste Marie is also home to Roberta Bondar. Not bad at all for a city its size."

What can any writer at Northumberland Today tell us about the kids jumping from the ferry docks, or the starling shootouts on Chapel Street, or the hippies acting outrageously in Victoria Park. What can Dan Christie, Grahame Woods, or other imports write about that from any first hand experience?