DISTRICT (Staff/special) – The Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind motorists operating all types of vehicles that winter weather can change very quickly, placing extra demands on your vehicle and your driving skills.Powder snow is a sign that the true conditions are
“Roads not the best”Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI — The district’s section of Highway 11 has already claimed the life of one person this winter-driving season.Danniel Morreau, 56 of Haileybury, died Thursday morning, November 24 at approximately 9 a.m., as the result of a collision between two transport
Dear Editor:Your reminder about “snow tires” is a good one, but needs to be expanded to include the temperature variable so that people do not think that absence of snow is a sufficient reason to delay putting on “winter tires”.In brief, the rubber compounds used in summer
A grey vehicle turned on its side and landed in the ditch on Tuesday, November 22 along Highway 11 B just south of New Liskeard. Officers with the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police were on site assisting the driver. Road conditions were ice-covered at the time. (Staff
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COLEMAN TOWNSHIP — Federal funding has been announced to assist in creating a tourism information kiosk and rest stop with washrooms at the intersection of Highway 11B and Highway 11 in Coleman Township.A headframe at the site will be used to attract people off
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — A group of tourists from the United States and other parts of Canada will be an attraction themselves as they pass through the area.A group of people from the North American Rail Car Operators Association (NORCOA) will be
Lawyers preparing draft for airport authorityDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP — Lawyers George Kemp and Paul Crombeen are working to prepare a draft outline for the establishment of a new airport authority, according to Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd.Area municipalities have agreed to work together for
Preparing for airport authority liftoffDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP — One final pen-stroke was required at the time this issue of The Speaker went to press to give the go-ahead for a one-year phase-in period for an airport authority for the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport,
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP — Questions about the process of forming an airport authority dominated the meeting of the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport Municipal Services Board (MSB) Thursday, April 21.The airport is currently owned by Armstrong Township, but operated by a board of area municipalities who want
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter EARLTON — Area councils have generally raised cautionary flags in the past few weeks on an Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport recommendation from the airport’s Municipal Services Board (MSB) steering committee for the formation of an airport authority.The recommendation has generally caused area municipalities to balk
