HAILEYBURY (Staff) -- The Temiskaming Art Gallery is now showing the work of Margot Cormier Splane.The Timmins artist has won 15 international awards. Her exhibition creates a dialogue around climate change, says gallery interim manager Kirsten Hill.Cormier was present at the Temiskaming Art Gallery Sunday, September 10, to launch her

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — New Liskeard Fall Fair organizers got their wish— for warm sunshine and big crowds, September 14-16.Fair organizers say they are about as happy with the success of the 115th New Liskeard Fall Fair as a kid with cotton candy on a midway thrill ride.“We had

Next Stop Englehart Quilters Guild are exhibiting at the Englehart and Area Historical Museum.

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART -- The 108th Englehart Fall Fair has come and gone, and organizers are happy with the overall response to the event held Thursday, September 7, and Friday, September 8.While attendees and exhibitors were down slightly, there was an interest shown in all categories by the exhibitors who

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter NEW LISKEARD - New Liskeard resident Florent Héroux has just completed his latest book titled Recollections of Old Temiskaming.While other books produced by Héroux have been in French, or bilingual, this book has been presented in English, with the possibility of translating it into French at a later

There will be lots of happy children going back to school in South Temiskaming thanks to the annual Packs for Kids program. From the left on August 24 at the New Liskeard Salvation Army Church were Major Warrick Pilgrim, Nancy Gilmour and Major Lucy Pilgrim handing out the Packs for

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART - It was a pretty good turnout, said organizer Candace Pritchard of the first annual Englehart Bark in the Park event.The weather was perfect Saturday, August 26, and Sunday, August 27."We got really lucky," said Pritchard.The first day drew out a good crowd of 60 to 65

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- Wisdom, love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth: these are the Seven Grandfather Teachings which are part of a traditional legend shared by indigenous elders.Long Point Algonquin First Nations artist Frank Polson says that the legend states that "the creator saw our people were not living

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Sky, lake and water combine to inspire Haileybury artist Julia Van Dine.She says that she tries to capture the brilliant colours that can appear in nature."It never lasts long," she says of the shifting scenes. "It only stays for seconds and then it changes."Van Dine is