The Temiskaming Shores Minor Hockey Association 17-team Wilson Chevrolet Pee Wee Challenge Cup games are on today, Saturday, January 20 and tomorrow, Sunday, January 21. Cheer on your local teams! Admission is free of charge.
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Weekender – January 19, 2018
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January 18 Weather Statement:
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,
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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