TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Two Sudbury area men face charges after a roadside check program for impaired drivers.The charges stem from a Festive RIDE – Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere – program on Highway 65 East in Dymond December 18.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say an eastbound GMC pickup
Monthly Archives: January 2015
$60 million value
Third Temiskaming Shores solar farms sold to TransCanadaDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES -- TransCanada Corporation of Calgary, Alberta, acquired the Liskeard 1 solar farm facility on December 29, 2014.The site is one of three which has generated controversy in the Temiskaming Shores area as a
Hitching posts going up in Charlton-Dack
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter CHARLTON/DACK -- The Municipality of Charlton and Dack is making a move to become more horse friendly, and in particular, to be more accommodating to the people who use them.So far, two hitching posts have been installed by the municipality. One is located
NEW ARRIVAL
Georgia Audrey Nadeau made her debut just before 10:30 p.m. January 2 to become the first baby born at Temiskaming Hospital in 2015. Georgia, weighing eight pounds eight ounces, is a second child for Kristen Koistinen and Mike Nadeau of Temiskaming Shores, and was delivered by midwife Paule Corneil.
FUTURE ENTREPRENEURS
New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) students in Lindsay Hodgson’s Grade 4 and 5 class recently took part in the Northern Ontario Youth Entrepreneurship Create a Logo program targeting elementary students in Grades 3-6. Students participated in a competition identifying and naming a business opportunity they believe could work in
City’s OMPF funding dips
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – The main source of provincial funding to the city has dipped a little.Temiskaming Shores will receive $3.74 million from the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund in 2015, down almost 2.4 per cent from 2014.That’s dropped still further from 2013, when the city was allocated
Timiskaming Health Unit board rep selections
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT -- It is now the time after the municipal election when the municipalities work together to elect representatives to the area boards.Timiskaming Health Unit medical health officer and chief executive officer Dr. Marlene Spruyt told The Speaker that some of the municipalities are
Ontario supporting women’s mining training
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Special) – An initiative to train aboriginal women for mining-related jobs has received provincial support.The Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group has been awarded up to $205,530 from Ontario’s Rural Economic Development program.In a news release, provincial officials say the “innovative program” will train First Nations and
THE YEAR 2015
We live our lives by time.From seconds to minutes to hours to days to weeks to months to years to decades to centuries to millenniums.We live in an era now where we have experienced all of the above.We begin this year as we do every year
We Quote
•“We have a vision of this area growing and prospering in the future, and I believe we have a great new council that will work together to make good things happen during this term,” -- Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd.• “There’s just more of them and they’re becoming