TORONTO (Staff/Special) – Homegrown flour, honey and cheese from Temiskaming will treat a Royal audience.Temiskaming products will be among those from more than 50 Northern Ontario enterprises at a regional pavilion at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.More than 320,000 visitors are expected to take in the 95th edition

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – A proposal to amalgamate Ontario’s 36 public health units into 14 regional entities isn’t the right prescription, says the chair of the Timiskaming Board of Health.Carman Kidd, who is also mayor of Temiskaming Shores, doesn’t consider amalgamation a practical model.Kidd said it’s difficult now to

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – It’s official: both sides of the Lake Temiskaming-Ottawa River system now have heritage status.It’s been a long time coming – a committee seeking formal designation under the Canadian Heritage Rivers System was formed in 2003.A little over a year ago, the provincial and federal governments

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Almost 6,000 passports to museums, galleries and attractions were distributed in a new ’round-the-lake tourism initiative this summer.The new promotional tool listed 18 stops from Mattawa and North Bay through Marten River, Temagami, Latchford, Cobalt and Temiskaming Shores and on the Quebec side of Lake

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES/COBALT -- The Temiskaming Transit Committee is considering input received from the public regarding its bus service which runs through Temiskaming Shores and Cobalt.The Transit Committee has put forward a proposal which will help the committee have an ongoing plan for maintaining the service.At meetings October 11

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate the theft of three new John Deere lawn tractors from an Armstrong Township dealership.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say the three lawn tractors were stolen from the Green Tractors Earlton property between October 4 and October 6.All

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – During an enforcement blitz on Thanksgiving weekend, Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police laid a total of 129 charges.Police noted that two drivers were charged with speeding at 141 kilometres/hour and 140 km/h respectively in a 90 km/h zone.A driver and passenger were charged with possession of a

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter LATCHFORD - Latchford Mayor George Lefebvre says the goal of having the town take over the operation of the Latchford control dam is an "open topic" being discussed by the town and Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC).In a telephone interview Tuesday, October 3, he said the town

TEMAGAMI (Staff/Special) – After pleading guilty to possessing too many walleye, two people from the Peterborough area have been prohibited from fishing in the Temagami area for two years.The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said that a conservation officer and two OPP officers conducted a joint marine patrol on

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Cobalt council is recommending that the City of Temiskaming Shores can send its plow trucks down to the Golden Age Club area on Argentite Street and loop back to Silver Street before heading northeast again back to Highway 11B. They will not be plowing, but will