Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – The next high school soccer season is many months away, but it always pays to plan ahead.The Ecole secondaire catholique Ste-Marie
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EHS athletes get top 10 finishes at provincials
Steven Larocque Speaker Editor ENGLEHART – The Spartans will be running over new grounds next school year.Englehart High School (EHS) is getting its old
Colony draws artists to Cobalt
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter COBALT – As a mother with young children, Jamie Cowie says it’s sometimes difficult to focus on her creative pursuits.But the five-day Cobalt Artists’ Colony offered “time to create, without the chaos at home,” said the Swastika artist.After attending her first colony, “I want to come back every
Temiskaming woman’s story basis of new novel
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – What was life like for a girl growing up in the logging camps of Temiskaming in the 1920s and ’30s?That’s the story of Easter Water, a book by first-time author Sara Burke, who grew up outside New Liskeard and now lives in Ottawa.While it’s historical
Success brewing for Whiskeyjack Beer Company
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Call it a Temiskaming gold rush, best served cold.That’s a description fitting of the craft beer industry in Northern Ontario as small brewers create big opportunity with their products thanks to an increasing appetite for local food and drink.Whiskeyjack Beer Company is tapping into the
Summer program offering more than work experience
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – There’s a new squad available to do odd jobs this summer.The young workers’ business slogan?“They can do everything for you.”Five senior elementary students from Temiskaming Shores and the Earlton area have formed a co-operative and launched “Les enfants en action.”The goal of the summer job
The h-word
There are nasty words out there known in polite circles by their first letter only. I’m not calling out letters - you know what they are.One we can say is the h-word – hypocrisy - and one of my personal bugbears.Take, for instance, the
Way down
The Speaker sometimes uses this space to give thumbs up or thumbs down to certain issues, encouraging, we hope, good news and good actors, admonishing others.This week it’s two big thumbs way
Elk Lake Civic turning 71
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – For decades, Elk Lake has been staging a party on the first weekend of August.The tradition is continuing with the 71st annual Civic Holiday Weekend festivities set to go.It kicks off tonight (August 2) with a bingo at the Royal Canadian Legion.But ball is at
Airport Authority applying for funding assistance
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP - The Earlton airport is looking for funds to help with capital projects next year.The Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport Authority is currently in the process of submitting formal applications to FedNor and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC).The Airport Authority has now been in operation for