The route to better healthcare
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]Recently I travelled over to Sudbury to be checked over to try to decipher a weird symptom I keep experiencing.The doctor I met there
Bat populations endangered
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT -- Three species of Ontario bats are now at approximately five to ten per cent of their original populations, and other hibernating bats are being impacted, although to a lesser degree, by a deadly disease known as white-nose syndrome.Bat populations are known to
Advisory lifted
Cold snap takes toll on water linesDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Cold temperatures are being blamed for water woes that left Haileybury and North Cobalt residents under a boil-water advisory.A major rupture in a watermain occurred at about 3:15 p.m. January 15, affecting properties serviced by the
Flu prompts visitor ban at long-term care unit
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Special/Staff) – Temiskaming Hospital has closed its long-term care unit to visitors because of a flu outbreak.In a news release, the hospital said Don Davies, the physician who chairs infection control, has confirmed that influenza A has been confirmed in one patient, and two others have flu-like
TDSS student a calculating contestant
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – As a youngster, Tim Willard would do math problems for fun while on hockey trips.Now, the Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS) student has placed in the top quarter of all contestants in the University of Waterloo’s prestigious Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest.
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