TDSS ROCKS
Alice Cooper’s No More Mr. Nice Guy brought Samantha Foley, guitarist Josh Lawrence and the rest of the band to the stage at Timiskaming District Secondary School. The Northern Rock concert wrapped up the semester’s rock music course. “This is their final exam, too,” said teacher Gail Menard as students
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’80s REVIVAL
The hair was big and the colours fluorescent at Riverside Place when Haileybury firefighters turned back time to the 1980s. Firefighters and friends – including, from left, Kevin and Nadine Hallworth and Steve Langford – sponsored an ’80s-themed dance at Riverside Place February 1 to raise funds for the Carter
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Wintry fun blasting Earlton
EARLTON (Staff) – Babies, baking and bingo will provide a break from the cold at Earlton Winter Festival ‘14.This year’s carnival, which runs February 6 through 9, will see the return of old favourites as well as the launch of new events.It kicks off February 6 with an evening bingo
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$1 MILLION…PLUS $2
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Englehart Bulletin Board
Englehart EchoesThis column continues Mrs. Helen Peterson’s story as related in an undated manuscript.“I worked in the post-office with nice educated people - Englehart was never a hick town - the rail-roaders weren’t hicks. The Post Office was down where Tommy Haley lives - across from the tele-phone exchange. I
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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
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The Best of 2013
DISTRICT (Staff) - How The Temiskaming Speaker remembers the year of 2012.STORYOF THE YEAR: The murder of Chris Parsons.PERSONALITYOF THE YEAR: Sarah Marsden. SPORTS STORYOF THE YEAR:. The upheaval in Midget hockey.FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Skier Katherine Denis.MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Para-Nordic skier Caelan Flannigan.COACH OF THE YEAR: Temiskaming
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Reviewing 2013 – City makes moves and movie in ’13
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – As 2013 opened, the city became the setting for a movie.As the year ended, producers were hoping to screen Skating to New York at film festivals and working on plans for a local showing.PROJECTSThe year
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Friendship and music unite generations
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- Twenty-five children from St. Patrick School in Cobalt and twenty-one seniors from the Tri-Town area are united in a bond of music and friendship.Thursday, December 19, was a special day when the Interlink Intergenerational Choir spent some time together singing and enjoying a Christmas luncheon in
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Skating to New York awaiting release date
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Just when Temiskaming Shores will make its big screen debut isn’t certain.Early this year, the area was buzzing as film crews transformed the area into a fictional Lake Ontario town for Skating to New York.But no release date for the movie has been set.“We are
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