North and Fort Mac share problems
by Wayne GreenCanada’s news media have, understandably, been awash with stories about the wildfires in Alberta as the country watches the people of Fort McMurray battle against the forces of nature to preserve the community they carved from the Northern forest.The images of levelled residential neighbourhoods and
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Freedom of the City
The Algonquin Regiment was in Haileybury on May 7 for two important military ceremonies. There was a symbolic Freedom of the City ceremony at 11:30 a.m. in which the military unit is honoured by a municipality. Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd, left, and city manager Chris Oslund inspected the
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House fire in Tomstown
TOMSTOWN (Staff) -- The Englehart Volunteer Fire Department was on the scene of a house fire which occurred in Tomstown on Tuesday, May 3. Tomstown is located on Highway 569 in the unincorporated township of Ingram.Fire Chief Tom Henderson said the fire department responds to fires in the
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Announcing transit info
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Transit riders will no longer have to wonder, “what’s the next bus stop?”An automated audio announcement system is coming to Temiskaming Transit’s four buses.Temiskaming Shores council has approved the installation of the $86,600 system.It will be of assistance to anyone unfamiliar with the
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Seeing the devastation
Temiskaming residents describe horror of Fort McMurray wildfireSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — All eyes across the country are on Fort McMurray, Alberta as that community continues to deal with a raging wildfire that has devastated the community of 80,000 people.Since it began over a week ago,
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Lake Temiskaming ice free on May 3
DISTRICT (Staff) — The ice is now gone from the largest body of water in this region -- Lake Temiskaming -- and our local lake watcher concurs with the day it left the lake.The Temiskaming Speaker contacted Haileybury lakeside resident Paul Gordon for his take on when the
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Historic regiment’s Colours to rest permanently at Bunker Military Museum
Gordon Brock Speaker Editor [gallery ids="12461,12463,12465"]COBALT – In a ceremony that was part militaristic, part spiritual, and part historic, the First World War Colours of the Algonquin Regiment were placed and consecrated at the Bunker Military Museum on Saturday, May 7.In an earlier previously published interview with
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TDSS student reaches entrepreneurial finals
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – In an era of take-out and microwave dinners, a young entrepreneur says kids need to learn how to feed themselves.Sally Potter, a Grade 10 student at Timiskaming District Secondary School, envisions a series of weekly camps – covering such topics as gardening, grocery shopping
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Questionnaire for Charlton-Dack residents
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter CHARLTON-DACK -- The Municipality of Charlton and Dack is preparing to send a survey out to all its residents asking how they would rank municipal services.Chief administrative officer Dan Thibeault said the results would provide council with an opportunity “to take the information and
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Trespass charges laid at skatepark
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A Haileybury man was charged with trespass-related offences at the skatepark in New Liskeard on the weekend.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police report receiving two complaints about the trespassing at the fenced-off facility Sunday April 24.At about 1:30 p.m., police said they found several people
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