Uncle Mac News Today

THE next Aireborough Civic Society meeting talk takes place on Tuesday, November 28 at Rawdon Community Library at 7.30pm.

At some point in our adult birthday cycle, we’ll all experience the sheer panic of receiving this difficult gift. As friends and family sensibly thrust bottles of wine into our hand or a discreet envelope with a welcome voucher from Exclusive Books or Nespresso, one unthinking person will buck...

After settling into 27 Wilcot Avenue with my parents and widowed grandmother who had sold her house in Talbot Avenue, I found much to do in those…

When McDonalds first came to town its Wisconsin-native manager had never heard of people wanting ketchup with french fries.

Tim Blackmore: Thank you for all that radio’s given me over these last 70 or so years.

Dr. John Edward Jenkins, 93 (aka: Dad, Pop, Grandpa, Papa John, Brother, Uncle Mac and “Chief”), passed away peacefully at his home on June 17, 2022 surrounded by family.

Songwriter and musician Barry Reynolds has lived an itinerant life. By age 15, in the mid-1960s, he’d left his Lancashire home and was gigging in Hamburg, then with the London bands Pacific Drift and Blodwyn Pig (with Jethro Tull’s Mick Abrahams). Once he started writing his own songs, he came to the attention of Marianne Faithfull, with whom he’s since had many years of fruitful collaborations. He’s had a similar relationship with Grace Jones, with whom he’s currently working. He shar...

During Uncle Mac’s lifetime, Black Americans went from being lynched and run out of town to seeing the end of Jim Crow and electing a Black president. This global pandemic has tested the planet, and certainly the McDonald family.

Clayton Industries steam technology saves two million pounds of tomatoes and helps launch a new brand Share Article A perennial problem of tomato loss during processing at a legacy South Carolina family farm leads to a creative and sustainable solution: the installation of a new steam generator that resulted in significant savings for the company and scaled up a new profit-making operation using the previously tossed tomatoes. Clayton’s SigmaFire SF50 Steam Generator 50BHP “The [new Clayton...

William McHenry Keyser After struggling with aggressive pneumonia and complications from lifelong diabetes, William McHenry Keyser died peacefully on December 15 with his wife, Virginia, by his side near their new home in Lake Wales, Fla. Mac was born on August 2, 1952, in New Bedford, Mass., near Marion, a treasured place where he spent time every summer with his family. The son of R. Brent Keyser and Helen Angier Keyser, Mac spent his youngest years ...