Shannen’s Dream to have boardwalk home

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A monument recognizing a teenaged advocate for First Nations education will be built in New Liskeard.The site for the memorial tribute to Shannen Koostachin – near the south end of Algonquin Regiment Memorial Beach Park – was appoved by Temiskaming Shores council earlier this

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 27, 2015News

Missing Person in Spring Lake

MISSING PERSON IN SPRING LAKEDISTRICT – On Wednesday May 20, at approximately 8:15 p.m. members of the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call to Spring Lake due to a vessel that had capsized. The Temiskaming OPP, the OPP Marine Unit, Ministry of Natural Resources

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Editorial Staff editorial@northernontario.caMay 21, 2015News

TFN, TAA close Shiningwood Bay road

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI – The Temagami First Nation and Teme-Augama Anishnabai have closed a side road leading to Shiningwood Bay.The road, located about 14 kilometres down the Lake Temagami Access Road, is providing unauthorized access to Lake Temagami, said Temagami First Nation (TFN) Chief Arnold Paul.

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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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 20, 2015Newsinfrastructure

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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 13, 2015News

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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 13, 2015NewsTDSS

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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 13, 2015Newslake temiskaming

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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 13, 2015Newsveterans, World War II

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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 6, 2015Newsdrugs, OPP

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

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMay 6, 2015Newshighway maintenance, MTO, transportation