Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter HILLIARD TOWNSHIP – The Hilliardton Marsh Research and Education Centre will be celebrating World Wetlands Day Saturday, February 2.The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and everyone is being encouraged to come out and enjoy some snowshoeing
Monthly Archives: January 2019
The Weekender – February 1, 2019
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FATAL MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION
COBALT — At approximately 10:04 a.m., on Wednesday, January 30, officers from the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a fatal two-vehicle collision on Highway 11, near Cobalt.OPP Technical Collision Investigators (TCI) and Collision Reconstructionists are currently at the scene conducting an investigation with
Hwy. 11 closed
DISTRICT (Staff) – The North East Region of the OPP reports that a collision has closed Highway 11 between Hwy. 64 at Marten River and Hwy. 65 at Temiskaming Shores.Time of reopening is unknown.
Groundhog Day February 2
Helping our environment
As we look out on the snow-covered towns and countryside, it's hard to remember the heat of summer.It also might be challenging to remember the summer of 2018 when fires raged in our forests.In the deep of winter, there could be a question as
Weather to Echoesby Steven LarocqueWe’ve all been pleased with the weather of late, right?Those bitterly frigid, battery-killing, furnace-overworking days and nights.We like to warm ourselves with the thought that it’s always been this way so quit whining.Except it isn’t always this way.Our 1944 Across the Years feature has the following
Midnight fire guts Kenabeek family home
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter KENABEEK — A Kenabeek family is struggling to find a place to live after a midnight fire gutted their home located at the corner of Henwood Road 3 and Highway 65 West on
Multiple charges laid after firearms-related call
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A city man faces multiple charges after police shut down a stretch of Whitewood Avenue last week in response to a firearms-related incident.The January 24 episode ended with no serious injuries.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say officers responded to a call about a threat in New Liskeard
Chilly cold snap smashes record
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — It is weather the Canadian poet Robert W. Service wrote about, but like his famous character, Sam McGee, it is weather we don’t necessarily care for.A