Downtown fire pushes losses to $2.5 million in ’14
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Fire losses in the city last year tallied more than $2.5 million – more than ten times that of 2013, and the highest in recent memory.But the bulk of the financial loss is related to a single event.On November 29,
Snowmobile patrols net charges
ELK LAKE (Staff) – As they travelled more than 200 kilometres of trails, police charged four out-of-town sledders in the Elk Lake area with a variety of offences.Members of the Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police conducted motorized snow vehicle patrols on March 10.Police say they observed a group
Downtown construction raises sidewalk concerns
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Concerns about sidewalk accessibility have been raised in light of construction at a building in downtown New Liskeard.A temporary wall and a barricade have narrowed a stretch of sidewalk in front of the former Number One Pet Centre on Whitewood Avenue.
Search to begin for new detachment commander
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – The Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police detachment will be looking for another commander.Inspector Dan Dawson has officially announced that he’ll be retiring at the end of June, said Doug Jelly, a Temiskaming Shores councillor and chair of the Temiskaming Shores Police Services Board.A selection
CNIB eye van tests, treats and educates in Englehart
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) mobile eye van visited Englehart last week as it makes its way across Northern Ontario screening, testing and educating people about eye care.The CNIB eye van, also known as the
Predicting the lake breakup?
DISTRICT (Staff) – It’s been a long, cold, clingy winter and this may be the year we set a new lake breakup record for Lake Temiskaming.Anglers on Lake Temiskaming have reported a buildup of at least four to six feet of ice on the lake this year which
End of March is end of huts of Lake Temiskaming
DISTRICT (Staff) – Spring is indeed here and that means ice hut removal season is also here.Tuesday, March 31, is the deadline to get your winter home-away-from-home off of Lake Temiskaming.That also goes for all waters of Fisheries Management Zones (FMZ) 12 (Temiskaming above the dam), and
Back to the future
Last Wednesday’s spring-like weather had many people optimistic the long winter was finally over. But by Friday, Temiskaming fell under a heavy snowfall alert for March 13 and 14 that warned winter would be back in full force. Traffic along Highway 11 had to be patient while crews worked
Local lawyer/judge Ian Gordon passes away
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Long-time Haileybury lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice, Ian (McDougall) Gordon, passed away at his home on Lake Temiskaming on Thursday,
The Spirit of the Library
While living in Parry Sound between 2006 and 2010, one of my favourite jobs was working at the library there.I was fascinated by the Dewey Decimal System and the concept that all the knowledge in the world can be categorized under a number and alphabet system.The system