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Drag ’N Fly Summer Classic another success

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter EARLTON — Once the light turns green it’s time to hold on to your eardrums and your seat as muscle cars, dragsters, motorcycles, drag sleds and go carts race down a quarter-mile track at the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport.There’s nothing subtle about drag races. They’re loud, exciting and fast

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Cub hopefuls on the ice August 24

Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – The 2017-18 hockey season gets underway in earnest with the return of the New Liskeard Cubs to the ice next week.“Last year we had about 60 skaters, it would be great to get that many again this year,” head coach Steve Polyblank said of the

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Sport Shorts

by Sue NielsenFormer Temiskaming Shores Minor Hockey Association player Teagan Grant was invited to the 2017-18 National Women’s Under-18 Summer Showcase conditioning camp in Calgary, Alberta.This is impressive given 70 of the top women hockey players in Canada have also been invited to the camp.Melody Davidson, former Team Canada women’s

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Hilliard has contractor for bridge replacement

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter HILLIARD TOWNSHIP - A new two-lane bridge will be constructed to replace the single-lane Veley Road Bridge in Hilliard Township.Provincial funding for the project has been approved and it must be completed before the end of 2018, but there is also hope that it could be done earlier.A

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Inspired by Mother Nature

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Sky, lake and water combine to inspire Haileybury artist Julia Van Dine.She says that she tries to capture the brilliant colours that can appear in nature."It never lasts long," she says of the shifting scenes. "It only stays for seconds and then it changes."Van Dine is

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Cobalt community garden officially opened

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - "It does take a village to raise a child," said Healthy Kids Community Challenge project manager Tammy Flood at the opening of the Cobalt community garden.A gathering of close to 20 people turned out for the ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the garden on Argentite Street."We know

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Ontario at the Foire gourmande table

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Northeastern Ontario is trying to take a more prominent seat at the table of an annual food fair in Ville-Marie.The sixteenth annual edition of the Foire gourmande de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue et du Nord-est ontarien runs August 18 through 20.There will be an Ontario pavilion in a

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