City plow can loop into Cobalt
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Cobalt council is recommending that the City of Temiskaming Shores can send its plow trucks down to the Golden Age Club area on Argentite Street and loop back to Silver Street before heading northeast again back to Highway 11B. They will not be plowing, but will
Englehart has “excellent financial health”
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART - The Town of Englehart has received its official audit statement for 2016, and the summary is that the town "continues to enjoy excellent financial health."One of the recommendations that has been made to the town by Kemp Elliott and Blair, the town's auditor, is that "the
Med school expanding roles
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Over the past 12 years, Northern Ontario’s medical school has a catalogue of good news stories.Ninety-four per cent of its graduates who went on to do post-graduate residencies in Northern Ontario are practising in the North.One-third of those are in smaller communities like Temiskaming Shores.But
New Liskeard pipeline replacement underway
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Construction is expected to wrap up early next month on a pipeline replacement project in and around New Liskeard.Union Gas is replacing a four-inch diameter pipeline that brings natural gas into New Liskeard, said Andrea Stass, the company’s manager of external communications and media relations, in
Crown land campers fined
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Too long a stay on Crown land cost five campers $5,000 in fines in two separate incidents.Over the past summer, conservation officers investigated complaints that people had been camping for extended periods of time on Crown land in the Lake Temagami area.Under the Public Lands Act,
One injured in Hwy. 11 crash
TEMAGAMI (Staff) – One driver was injured in a collision between two tractor-trailers near Temagami last week.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police responded to the collision September 19 shortly after 6:35 a.m.Police say a northbound tractor-trailer collided with a southbound unit, sending both on to the southbound shoulder and into the ditch.Police
EMS limiting non-urgent transfers
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART - The Temiskaming ambulance service, along with the District of Timiskaming Social Services Administration Board (DTSSAB) which administers it, are taking a stand against excessive non-urgent patient transfer calls from the hospitals.The number of non-urgent patient transfers out of the district that the ambulance service is being
Hot end to September in South Temiskaming
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT —South Temiskaming was enveloped in a heat wave not typically seen in the first few days of fall.After a cool, wet spring and summer, summertime temperatures arrived, albeit late.Environment Canada says it has so far been a dry, hot September with little rainfall and, according to Environment
Cobalt discusses growing complaints backlog
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Cobalt council recently discussed its need to be able to better respond to complaints from residents and its need for a bylaw enforcement officer.Chief administrative officer Michelle Larose and Cobalt Mayor Tina Sartoretto expressed hope that employing a bylaw officer will help the town resolve a
Federal funding for northern beef research
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT - Federal funding of over $300,000 has been announced to assist the Northern Ontario farm industry.Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota was at the opening of the 115th New Liskeard Fall Fair Thursday, September 14, and made the announcement at that time.The FedNor funding (Federal Economic Development Initiative for