Special weather statement in effect for: Kirkland Lake – Englehart New Liskeard – TemagamiPotential for freezing rain through this evening.Wintry precipitation including snow, ice pellets and a risk of freezing rain, is expected this evening and tapering off by midnight. Any freezing rain will be rather light and patchy. However,
Monthly Archives: January 2018
A legend remembered
Supporting the future we want
As the economy works through the impact of the minimum wage increase, there are things that can be done at home to help offset the downside.Mainly, the message is "shop at home."Every dollar spent in another community is a dollar that is not spent at home. Every dollar spent on
Digital creator workshop
NEW LISKEARD (Staff) — The Temiskaming Shores Public Library is offering regular Digital Creator workshops for teens.This Saturday, January 20, there will be a Benjamin Chee Chee recreation workshop.At this time participants will be using Adobe illustrator to recreate images by Northern Ontario artist Benjamin Chee Chee.Times are 11 a.m.
Language, please
Steven Larocque Speaker Editor Donald Trump said a bad word last week.Referring to Haiti and El Salvador and unspecified African countries, he complained aloud in a meeting with officials about allowing citizens of those “shithole countries” to enter the United States.What’s curious is not the profanity coming from a person like Trump,
Great Fire survivor passes away at age 103
DISTRICT (Staff/Special) - She was the third of seven children, born to Swedish immigrants at the turn of the century in Haileybury who survived 103 years on the planet, a bout with cancer and, miraculously, the Great Fire of 1922.Those facts stand as a testament to Signe Byberg’s enduring character
Hoist Room discussed as Cobalt arena sale approaches
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Cobalt council is looking at the end of the month when the sale of the Cobalt arena closes.At council's committee-of-the-whole meeting Tuesday, January 9, Mayor Tina Sartoretto said it appears the original buyer is now proceeding with purchasing the arena."Something transpired this afternoon," she commented."For us,
Out-walking winter
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – A Temiskaming Shores group of walkers hopes to reach Florida, one step at a time.And so far, they’ve made it just past Huntsville, said Danielle Covello, Temiskaming Shores’ age-friendly/get active coordinator.They’re not actually on the road.Covello is tracking participants’ collective progress during twice-weekly indoor walking
FedNor funding helps Airport Authority plan
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP - The Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport Authority had its first big announcement of federal funding January 10 - $318,000 from FedNor.The funding "will allow us to carry out key elements of our strategic plan, which includes creating a business park that will accommodate commercial and industrial tenants,”
Barely North at Temiskaming Art Gallery
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter HAILEYBURY - Ontario is a huge province and Temiskaming is a small part, though greatly celebrated and appreciated.Perched on the edge of the vast geographic area that is Northern Ontario, Temiskaming is, in the eyes of some, Barely North.But residents and visitors to the area have recorded their