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

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART - The Town of Englehart has received its official audit statement for 2016, and the summary is that the town "continues to enjoy excellent financial health."One of the recommendations that has been made to the town by Kemp Elliott and Blair, the town's auditor, is that "the

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Construction is expected to wrap up early next month on a pipeline replacement project in and around New Liskeard.Union Gas is replacing a four-inch diameter pipeline that brings natural gas into New Liskeard, said Andrea Stass, the company’s manager of external communications and media relations, in

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Too long a stay on Crown land cost five campers $5,000 in fines in two separate incidents.Over the past summer, conservation officers investigated complaints that people had been camping for extended periods of time on Crown land in the Lake Temagami area.Under the Public Lands Act,

TEMAGAMI (Staff) – One driver was injured in a collision between two tractor-trailers near Temagami last week.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police responded to the collision September 19 shortly after 6:35 a.m.Police say a northbound tractor-trailer collided with a southbound unit, sending both on to the southbound shoulder and into the ditch.Police