Not fine in CobaltDear Editor:This is an open letter to Cobalt Mayor Tina Sartoretto:Dear Mayor Sartoretto,This letter is in response to your post-municipal election letter which was printed in the Weekender/Speaker in the month of November 2014 and a column which was printed with
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Council drawing up contract for Fraser tenants
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — It’s back to the drawing board for a new contract the Town of Cobalt is attempting to draw up for potential tenants in the Cobalt portion of apartment units in the Fraser Hotel.A potential rental contract was put before Cobalt council
Bigger, better, brighter
Cobalt’s Christmas lighting of the cenotaph park was a team effort Saturday, November 15, as it is every year, but this year the result is even bigger and better. The Cobalt fire department, town council members and staff, and Nipissing Power joined forces to get the job done. Pictured
Cobalt solar sites entering construction phase
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — Strathcona Solar Initiatives chief executive officer Karl Hollett was present with Cobalt town staff and council members recently to announce the official beginning of construction of three solar power sites.Two of the sites are being built on the town’s decommissioned landfill sites,
Cobalt gets tanker truck donation from Coleman
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — Coleman Township has donated a tanker truck to the Town of Cobalt.The donation was acknowledged at a recent Cobalt regular council meeting.Councillor Gary Bigelow, who chairs the town’s public works committee, explained that while the tanker truck is being donated for
Cobalt elects four incumbents, two newcomers
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — Election night started off quietly in Cobalt.While the results were not yet known at about 7 p.m., Perry Wuest, who would be found successful in his bid, and Janette Minderlein were the only candidates at the designated meeting place upstairs in the
Cobalt connected to historic maritime disaster
COBALT (Staff) – The Town of Cobalt’s venerable historic roots were recently traced back to this nation’s most costly peacetime maritime sinking and a new museum exhibit vividly shows that connection.The Empress of Ireland was a ship that carried cargo and passengers between Canada and England beginning in
Building on the past for the benefit of the future the goal in Cobalt
NOTE: Throughout the October 27 municipal election campaign The Speaker will be profiling the various municipal races throughout our district. This is another in our series.Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — There is a race in the Town of Cobalt among 14 candidates for
Catholic cemetery controversy
Board states flowers and items to be removed from gravesDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES/COLEMAN TOWNSHIP — The Cobalt-Coleman Catholic Cemetery, formerly the St. Theresa Roman Catholic Cemetery, is readying to enact a new bylaw which will require the removal of all items around the headstones, legally effective
New art studio in Cobalt
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — Area people interested in learning more about painting with watercolours, drawing, using mixed media, or creating collages, can now do so at a local studio which has just opened up for that purpose.Joe-Ann Cleroux has now opened Joe-Ann’s Creative Painting and Art