$60 million value
Third Temiskaming Shores solar farms sold to TransCanadaDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES -- TransCanada Corporation of Calgary, Alberta, acquired the Liskeard 1 solar farm facility on December 29, 2014.The site is one of three which has generated controversy in the Temiskaming Shores area as a
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Story of 2014
Murder charge laid in death of Chris ParsonsGordon Brock Speaker Editor DISTRICT – From the time in June of 2013 when the police called his death a homicide and right through to year’s end, the questions have remained the same concerning the death
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Baby Janessa still facing serious health problems
Growing financial deficit
Earlton airport future to be discussedDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter EARLTON -- Municipal, provincial and federal representatives are being asked to attend an information session in Earlton January 24 to discuss the possible restructuring of the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport.The City of Temiskaming Shores has issued the invitation,
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Outpouring of support
Community rallies to help victimsDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – One week after fire levelled two businesses and six apartments in downtown New Liskeard, help is pouring in for the people who lost their homes.The response has been “amazing,” said Janet Spencer of the Temiskaming
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ARSON TO BLAME IN FIRE
Two businesses, six apartments lost, people left homelessGordon Brock Speaker Editor Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter NEW LISKEARD — A 35-year-old New Liskeard man has been charged in connection with Saturday’s downtown New Liskeard fire which saw more than a half dozen people left homeless, two businesses burnt to
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Drive resumes to four-lane Hwy. 11
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – A renewed drive to four-lane Highway 11 north of North Bay has gained traction.Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin says he’ll be “a political champion” for the initiative.Four-laning is key to both economic development and safety, the Conservative MP told political, business
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Honouring heroism
Rescuers’ courageous efforts recognizedDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – “You had our backs.”So wrote Tracy Burck of the neighbours and first responders who rescued her and her daughter from the fire that destroyed their home in New Liskeard last summer.Five neighbours and first responders were recognized for
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Showing up
Large crowds ignore obstacles to rememberDISTRICT (Staff) — Despite school cancellations and an Environment Canada freezing rain warning, larger than expected crowds still turned up in minus four degrees Celsius weather at snow-covered cenotaphs to participate in Remembrance Day services held throughout the area.The following from
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Protesting the move
Safety concerns raised over Grade 7-8 move to TDSSDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter “It was served to us on a garbage can lid."TEMISKAMING SHORES – Plans to transfer grades 7 and 8 to Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS) were unveiled to parents last week.But the reason for the
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