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Airport authority heading in the right direction: chair

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff)– With nine months behind the wheel, the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport Authority is going in the right direction, says its chair.Airport staff and authority board members are “very positive,” said Carman Kidd, chair of the authority’s board and the mayor of Temiskaming Shores.The authority, created by 13 municipalities

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Health unit reimbursing municipalities

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT - The Timiskaming Health Unit (THU) is giving area municipalities a Christmas present this year."At our last finance committee meeting we discussed what our reserve fund caps should be, and we recommended to the board that we limit our reserves to $500,000 for operations and an additional

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Charlton area arsons under investigation

CHARLTON (Special/Staff) – Police are appealing to the public for information about two recent incidents of arson in the Charlton area.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police report that a break-in occurred at the Amish school on Highway 560 near the Charlton fairgrounds on the first weekend of November.Sometime between 5 p.m. November

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Fuel spill cleanup continuing

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Investigation is continuing into the environmental impact of a fatal tractor-trailer collision south of Temagami earlier this month.But there are no indications that diesel fuel made its way into Robin’s Creek or Pan Lake, said Brent Trach, environmental officer with the Ontario Ministry of the

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A town built for Christmas

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – While some Northern communities are shrinking, there’s one village that grows year after year.But it’s not on any map.To find it, you have to drop by the Haileybury home of Suzanne and Maurice Boucher.What began as a small collection of illuminated houses about two decades

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Cubs have best game of season in Kap

Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – As far as roller coaster rides go, the New Liskeard Cubs dipped the lowest and rode the highest points of the season last weekend.Friday:“It was just an awful effort to be honest with you. We just didn’t do anything right and we didn’t come out

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Hunting enforcement blitz lays 98 charges

DISTRICT (Special) – Almost 100 charges were laid and more than 140 warnings issued in the Northeast in a two-week blitz shortly after the opening of moose season.Between October 21 and November 3, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said conservation officers contacted more than 3,100 people during

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