City buying new sanders
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – As spring arrives, the city has winter ‘16 in mind.Temiskaming Shores council has approved the purchase of two single-axle sanders from Freightliner-North Bay at a cost of $395,450.It was the lowest of three bids, with the others tallying $433,300 and $463,800.In a
Let the sun shine
TDSS unveils powerful projectDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter [caption id="attachment_7934" align="alignleft" width="500"] A monitor will let passersby check the progress of power
Shannen’s Dream to be remembered in city
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A monument in memory of a Timiskaming District Secondary School student and advocate for First Nations education may be constructed on the New Liskeard waterfront.Shannen Koostachin, a member of Attawapiskat First Nation, was graduating from elementary school when she began pressing the federal government
Lake Temiskaming ice free on May 5
DISTRICT (Staff) — The ice is now gone from the largest body of water in this region -- Lake Temiskaming -- and two local lake watchers concur with the day it left the lake.The Temiskaming Speaker contacted Haileybury lakeside residents, Paul Gordon and Jeff Laferriere, for their take
Wheels of war
Young mechanic in Sicily and Italy invasionsDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART -- It’s been 70 years since World War II, and for Jim Stephen, now 93 and living in Englehart, it is a dim memory.Mr. Stephen enlisted in 1942, and embarked on a journey that would take
Traffic stop results in charges
TEMAGAMI (Staff) – A Powassan man faces charges after police stopped a vehicle they said was driving erratically near Temagami.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police report stopping a vehicle April 29 shortly before noon on Highway 11.Police charged a 37-year-old Powassan man with possession of marijuana for the purpose
MTO Digging out
Auditor general agrees - winter road maintenance declinedDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TORONTO -- The Ontario Minister of Transportation has promised a better winter highway maintenance plan, to be delivered within the next two months.The promise came after the Ontario auditor general reported that the provincial government’s
A dam site better
Latchford reconstruction project beginningDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter [caption id="attachment_7809" align="alignleft" width="500"] The Latchford dam will be reconstructed in two phases during 2015 and 2016. (Staff photo by Darlene Wroe)[/caption]LATCHFORD
Former Timmins trustee rejoins board
TIMMINS (Staff/Special) – The region’s French Catholic school board has appointed former Timmins trustee Langis Dion to fill a vacant seat.The Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grandes Rivières selected the Timmins man as its new trustee last week.The vacancy was created when new trustee Marcel Pelchat
From the Editor’s Desk
Winter Highway MaintenanceA report by the Ontario Auditor General confirmed last week what many of us have long thought: winter highway maintenance has deteriorated since the provincial government began contracting out the work.“Over the past five years, winter highway maintenance service levels have declined