Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- Downtown Cobalt continues to grow with the new opening of Donelda’s Quilt Shop at 3 Prospect Avenue.The new quilting workroom business is located directly adjacent to the popular Silver Café.Donelda Leduc is the proprietor of the new business.Her workroom houses a
Over 100 walkers left the May Street Centre de Santé Communautaire du Témiskaming’s 10th annual Lunch Hour Walk held recently. Walkers strolled along the waterfront boardwalk and STATO trail and returned to the Riverside Place to share lunch together. (Staff photo by Sue Nielsen)
The Temiskaming Area Roller Derby girls donated $600 to the Mandarin MS Walk on Sunday, May 25 outside the Don Shepherdson Memorial Arena in New Liskeard. They raised the money from the proceeds of their first local bout held a few weeks prior to the MS walk. From the
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Should Crown land be opened to agriculture?Yes, said four Timiskaming-Cochrane provincial candidates at last week’s all-candidates’ meeting in Haileybury.Liberal Sébastien Goyer said Premier Kathleen Wynn has announced support to turn Crown land over to agricultural production.He described it as “a
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – The candidates agree –Temiskaming should be included in a pilot project re-introducing a limited spring bear hunt.There was unanimity when the issue was raised at an all-candidates’ meeting in Haileybury last week.Progressive Conservative Peter Politis, also mayor of Cochrane, said his
Vote June 12On Thursday, June 12 we vote in a provincial election. Public opinion polls and pundits tell us this election is too close to call.At this time The Temiskaming Speaker continues its election tradition of not officially endorsing a candidate.We’ve never been so presumptuous to
by Wayne GreenOn the eve of Ontario's general election it must be noted that five weeks of intense campaigning by the three main political parties do not seem to have made much of an impression on the province's population. Just as they were when the Legislature was dissolved back
Councillor Appreciation Week?Dear Editor:Oh this tiresome business of regulating TownsThose plastic shelters bring out the neighbours frownsTake the darn things downIs Council’s commandTheir theme song should be, “Bring In The Clowns”Seems any neighbours complaint is all it takesFor them to
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – There may be singing, if not dancing, in the streets in New Liskeard.The New Liskeard Business Improvement Area (BIA) proposes to introduce Music in the Streets on Friday nights in July.Downtown businesses would remain open until 9 p.m. while musicians and artists would
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – It’s a common refrain in the North – how can the region catch the ear of Queen’s Park?At a meeting in Temiskaming Shores last week, Timiskaming-Cochrane candidates offered their views.New Democrat John Vanthof outlined his proposal for a Northern committee that
