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Mike Balsom

Mike Balsom

With a background in radio and television, Mike Balsom has been covering news and events across the Niagara Region for more than 35 years. He loves to cover sports and entertainment, and to reveal the fascinating back-stories of so many of the amazing people he meets in town

Recent Work by Mike

Author shares a glass with Ontario's female wine industry pioneers

Author shares a glass with Ontario's female wine industry pioneers

Ironically, it was during the 2019 memorial service for a male wine pioneer that the idea of writing a tribute to the women who shaped Ontario’s grape and wine industry came to author Jennifer Willhelm
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Songwriting legend Ron Sexsmith plays Niagara-on-the-Lake house concert

Songwriting legend Ron Sexsmith plays Niagara-on-the-Lake house concert

St. Catharines-born singer-songwriter offered up more than 20 songs spanning his Juno-winning, 40-plus year career to a small audience of 40 fans
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Here's the science, mathematics and history behind next month's solar eclipse

Here's the science, mathematics and history behind next month's solar eclipse

Dr. Barak Shoshany and other Brock University professors and staff to host Eclipse on the Escarpment, beginning at noon on April 8
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Partnership between businessman, teacher results in charming kids book

Partnership between businessman, teacher results in charming kids book

Author Al Huberts and illustrator Becca Marshall hope to launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of 'River's Perfect Christmas'
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