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New lawn tractors stolen

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate the theft of three new John Deere lawn tractors from an Armstrong Township dealership.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say the three lawn tractors were stolen from the Green Tractors Earlton property between October 4 and October 6.All

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Operation Impact results in 129 charges

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – During an enforcement blitz on Thanksgiving weekend, Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police laid a total of 129 charges.Police noted that two drivers were charged with speeding at 141 kilometres/hour and 140 km/h respectively in a 90 km/h zone.A driver and passenger were charged with possession of a

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Terry Fox remembered at NLPS

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – It’s about 950 kilometres from New Liskeard to Thunder Bay, where cancer’s return abruptly stopped Terry Fox’s run across Canada.All that happened in 1981, long before students – and some staff – at New Liskeard Public were born.But the school set a collective goal to

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Expanded program building foundation for employment

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – People sometimes need a little help to be successful in the workforce, said Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota.Thanks to new funding for the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group (TNWSG), “we’re making another step in that direction,” said the Liberal MP at the organization’s New Liskeard centre

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TDSS hosts successful Cross-Country Meet

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter COLEMAN TOWNSHIP — There are no benches in cross-country running and the roads are not paved.It takes a special kind of athletic skill to run cross-country and the 947 participants taking part in the 2017 Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS) Temiskaming Nordic Ski Club (TNSC) Cross-Country Invitational tested

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Hockey Night In Canada’s Brian McFarlane recounts career

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — He was in Temiskaming Shores to accept an award for his father’s writing skills (Hardy Boys ghost writer Leslie McFarlane), but 25-year Hockey Night In Canada broadcaster, Brian McFarlane, took time to talk about his broadcasting career, on being a successful writer of 100 published

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The Hog Line Report

Big Rock for Little Rocks FundRaiser DanceThe Cobalt Haileybury Curling Club Little Rock and Youth Curling extends a huge thank you to Jon Champagne of Haileybury Plumbing and Heating for sponsoring a very successful fundraising dance and concert, Big Rock for Little Rocks.On short notice Jon put together a concert, meal

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Order of the North designation for Leslie McFarlane

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter HAILEYBURY — It’s hard to compress the scope of a person’s life and career onto a plaque and into an awards ceremony.The task is even that much more difficult when the life is as storied as that of former Haileyburian, Leslie McFarlane, father, famed ghost writer of the

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