COBALT (Staff) — The Cobalt Mining Museum’s first Great Cobalt Silver Nugget Race took place Saturday, August 23.Museum manager Anne Fraboni says the museum board hopes to make the event an annual one.There were 347 tickets sold at $10 each for this first event which saw silver
Dear Editor:We the common sense public are very disappointed in the Catholic Cemetery Board in Cobalt for their decision to take down all lightstands, flowers on plots, stone, foundations, etc.I’m very sorry that we the public have no say anymore.Joe TresidderCobalt
COBALT — The potential cost of the new curbside waste management program in Cobalt was brought up at Cobalt council at its regular meeting Tuesday, August 19.In response to a concern expressed that the program will be more costly, Mayor Tina Sartoretto stated the true cost of the
The Cobalt and Coleman Lions Club Mining Competition was held on Saturday, August 16 outside the Father Les Costello Memorial Arena. Pictured during the Jack Leg drilling portion of the competition is Mileage 104 resident/experienced miner Gordon Fillion, behind him is volunteer Gino Chitaroni. Mr. Fillion came in third
COBALT (Staff) – Mervyn Lavigne of Haileybury was recently inducted into the Cobalt Mining Museum’s Founders and Mining Partners Hall of Fame.Mr. Lavigne was honoured for his work in preserving the museum and the Cobalt mining camp, said museum manager Ann Fraboni.Born in Ottawa on June 9,
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — It’s always easy to escape into the past in Cobalt. A tour of the Colonial Mine Adit will take visitors deep into the past of damp rock walls, and dimly lit passages where miners searched for silver.Visitors
Cobalt’s new waste management program explainedDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — An enhanced curbside recycling program is coming to Cobalt, beginning on October 2.The bins that will be used for the new program are arriving in Cobalt this week in readiness for the new garbage and curbside recycling
Getting to make a mess was more fun for some young hunters than actually finding the quarters hidden in the straw. Dozens of youngsters came out for games and races at the fifth annual SMC/North Cobalt Flea Market Fun Day held at Teck Prospect Park in Cobalt on Saturday,
Cobalt project extended over 2014 and 2015Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter Let us say thatis a big project”, — Cobalt Mayor Tina SartorettoCOBALT — The Lang Street project running through the Town of Cobalt is not expected to be completed this year, although it is expected
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT — The doors of the Cobalt town office will be closed in the mornings until 10 a.m. as the town staff deals with a number of large projects that are currently taking place.Mayor Tina Sartoretto supported the town staff
