[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]For the better part of the past 30 years, I have been attending small-town council meetings and, also sometimes attending meetings of the rural municipalities.
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TIMMINS – The Northeastern Catholic District School Board and its teachers have a new three-year collective agreement.The previous year was a challenging one, said board chair Rick Brassard, an Englehart trustee, in a news release announcing ratification of a new contract.But with provincial
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter EARLTON – Drivers may one day be able to take a break from the highway in the Marten River area.The Ontario Ministry of Transportation is considering building a year-round rest stop near the Highway 64 turnoff north of Marten River.The ministry has begun an
COBALT (Staff) – Police are searching for the culprit or culprits who broke into a storage unit in Cobalt sometime between late December and January 24.They’re warning that the items may have been posted for sale on a local Facebook buy-and-sell site by a false seller named “Tyler.”
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Cost ended up trumping data collection when the city went shopping for new light-duty trucks.The vehicle purchases were prompted when an annual inspection found four of Temiskaming Shores’ trucks were suffering from structural fatigue and were considered unsafe to drive.Council
NORTH BAY (Staff/Special) – The region’s health care planner wants to know what the public thinks of proposed changes to Ontario’s health care system.The North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is seeking feedback on the discussion paper Patients First: A Proposal to Strengthen Patient-Centred Care in Ontario.
SUDBURY (Special/Staff) – A proposal to realign some health care delivery is now on the table.Among the recommendations in Patients First – A Proposal to Strengthen Patient-Centred Health Care in Ontario is the takeover of community care access centre (CCAC) services by local health integration networks.
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]The study of genealogy raises interesting questions about our culture, our inherited traits, and even our way of thinking.About six years ago I began
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT -- Complaints have been reported regarding a marked difference in the condition of Highway 11 after a storm on the highway south of Temagami.Ontario Ministry of Transportation Northeast Region spokesperson Gordan Rennie told The Speaker that Highway 11 between North Bay and Cochrane
DISTRICT (Special) — The Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have been informed there was a snowmobile operating on the Wabi Bridge located on Armstrong Street North in New Liskeard. Police say this is a safety concern and this type of action is against the law.They
