Sometimes the best vacations are the ones where you stay right at home.Yours truly returned to work this week after a two-week vacation spent, with the exception of two days in Toronto, right at home. There was no
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Highway 11 is dangerous
Dear Editor:The longer the sorry state of Highway 11 continues, the more it points to a major, if not reckless duty-of-care failure by the Ontario government.For starters, and well before it cancelled The Northlander train service, the Ontario government should have implemented a properly funded program to ensure that Highway
Balanced information on road safety
Dear Editor:In an effort to present balanced, uneditorialized information, the Northern Safe Roads Coalition would like to make some comments about Highway 11 winter road safety.The Northern Safe Roads Coalition (NSRC) is not only a group of concerned citizens, we represent a group of business leaders, law enforcement, emergency services,
No local hike in THU ’14 budget
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Levies from Temiskaming municipalities to the district’s public health agency are staying the same for another year.Carman Kidd, chair of the Timiskaming Health Unit’s board and mayor of Temiskaming Shores, described the health unit’s 2014 budget as “pretty stand pat.”That the board was able to
Social housing challenges and write-offs
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART -- The District of Timiskaming Social Services Administration Board (DTSSAB) has written off $76,882.36 for the year 2013.The amount represents costs for renovating damaged housing units and for uncollected rents, mostly due to the death of a tenant.One case which caused the greatest cost for DTSSAB occurred
MP applauds new infrastructure fund
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter OTTAWA – A $1 billion, 10-year infrastructure fund earmarked for smaller municipalities has been welcomed by Nipissing-Timiskaming’s MP.Even a few thousand dollars in federal help can mean a lot for a small municipality, said Conservative MP Jay Aspin.He was commenting on the Small Communities Fund, which was part
Slow work to close Latchford library
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter LATCHFORD -- A sale of remaining items at the former Latchford Public Library is expected to be held in early April, Latchford Councillor Jo-Anne Cartner reported to Latchford council Thursday evening, February 20.The town’s library closed its doors for the final time in late 2013, due to a
Leave of absence for Latchford councillor
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter LATCHFORD -- At their regular meeting Thursday evening, February 20, the remaining members of Latchford council voted in favour of approving an indefinite leave of absence for Councillor David Willcock.The leave of absence was requested as the result of an illness in Councillor Willcock’s family, Latchford Mayor George
MPPs want Ranger program back
TORONTO (Special) - Timiskaming-Cochrane MPP John Vanthof, along with fellow NDP MPP Michael Mantha from Algoma-Manitoulin recently called on the Liberal government to restore the Ontario Park Ranger program at provincial parks.“The program built awareness, job skills and an overall appreciation of the diversity of Ontario in yesterday’s and today’s
Expansion for Haileybury EMS garage
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART/HAILEYBURY -- Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Chief Mike Trodd hopes to have a Spring groundbreaking for a 900-square-foot addition onto the north end of the EMS ambulance node in Haileybury.Chief Todd was speaking at the February 19 meeting of the District of Timiskaming Social Services Administration Board (DTSSAB),