Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — Many in the Temiskaming region woke up Monday morning, January 6 to a pile of snow, high winds and a threat of a deep freeze by day’s end.Environment Canada had predicted about 15 to 20 centimeters of snow would fall overnight and the amount of snowfall
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Haileybury – Temiskaming Shores Haileybury Library Corner
On Thursday Jan 2nd 2014 the famous writer Elizabeth Jane Howard died at the age of 90.Howard was most well known for her series “The Cazalet Chronicles”. This series of 5 books chronicles the lives of a wealthy English fam-ily during the period leading up to the Second World War,
Times are changing
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]Most of us have seen many a Northern winter. Most of us have seen the thermometers dip to -40 about the same time we learned to
A New Year
[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]This issue of The Temiskaming Speaker is our inaugural one of 2014.Befitting a community newspaper’s first issue of the year, we have the New Year’s Baby, “lookaheads” with various municipal leaders
WE QUOTE
• “I think this will be an exciting year,” – Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd.• “We’re in good shape,” – Armstrong Township Mayor Robert Ethier.• “Wood heat is great if you have got the energy and youth,” – Latchford Mayor George Lefebvre. He stated that he personally feels the town
THE YEAR 2014
We live our lives by time.From seconds to minutes to hours to days to weeks to months to years to decades to centuries to millenniums.We live in an era now where we have experienced all of the above.We begin this year as we do every year since The Speaker was
HWY. 11 CRASH
No one was injured when a southbound tractor-trailer suddenly crossed Highway 11 south of the rail crossing outside Temagami at about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, January 5. The truck came to rest in the north ditch in deep snow and facing north after striking a utility pole. The Temagami fire department
City’s first official plan due in ’14
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – One of the items on the city’s agenda in the new year will be the adoption of the municipality’s first official plan.The document takes a long-term view of planning.It plots where development can occur in Temiskaming Shores, and what type – from housing and business to
Mayor upbeat for city in ’14
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – The city’s mayor is feeling upbeat as he contemplates 2014.[caption id="attachment_1007" align="alignleft" width="250"] CARMAN KIDD[/caption]“I’m very positive. We’ve got a lot of business people looking at doing development in the area,” said Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd.In
Cobalt digging in
Coleman’s Sharpe Lake Park decision appealedDARLENE WROE Speaker Reporter COBALT -- The Town of Cobalt is appealing the decision of Coleman Township council not to allow a zoning bylaw amendment for the Sharpe Lake Park.At Cobalt council’s regular meeting Tuesday, December 17, Cobalt chief administrative officer John Hodgson said an appeal to