Press Release As of Jan. 5, Ontario students can apply to get 30 percent off the cost of their tuition. To help keep the cost of post-secondary education affordable, the provincial government is taking 30 percent off the average tuition for families—that means $800 for undergraduate university or college degree […]
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Alanna Gerula The first meeting of the “A Sporting Chance” 4-H club was held at the Williams’ residence. After the meeting was called to order, Kim Desserre put us into groups of three. Then we had to think of games that have balls in them. After that, we compared what […]
Press Release This is Alzheimer Awareness Month. . . . Let’s face it! Get the facts. Know for sure. Canadians still are dismissing symptoms of dementia as “just old age” based on survey results released last week by the Alzheimer Society. Close to 50 percent of Canadians lived a year […]
Press Release Rooksana Randeree, RD, clinical dietitian for Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., is offering a “Healthy You” weight management program for free at La Verendrye hospital here. The program is a group weight management approach that focuses on lifestyle changes that may help you reach—and maintain—a healthier body weight […]
Robin McCormick The day care centre here in Devlin is hoping the eight toboggans that were stolen from there will be returned. If you have any information about this matter, call 486-1264. Or if you have the toboggans, and enjoyed them over the holidays, perhaps you can find it in […]
Courtesy of the Valeda Larocque of Atikokan is celebrating her 100th birthday today (Jan. 11). She was born and raised on a farm in Pinewood, then raised her own family (with her late husband, Leonide Larocque, a railroad worker) on a farm in that community. She lived there until a […]
Dave Ogilvie The next meeting of the Donald Young School pupil accommodation review committee will take place there tomorrow (Jan. 12) from 7-9 p.m. If you have something to add to the discussion, or just would like to receive an update on what may happen to our local school, plan […]
the NDP Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson and Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha charged last week that the Northern Growth Plan has failed to address the real needs of Northern Ontario. The plan calls for the creation of “hubs” to promote development, but Sudbury and Thunder Bay are the only cities […]
the OPP The OPP would like to remind the public to be careful when venturing out on area lakes and rivers. With the mild temperatures the region has been experiencing lately, ice thickness may not be the same as in years past when we usually have had a stretch of […]
Lucas Punkari With students returning to the halls of Fort High on Monday following the Christmas break, the players and coaches of the four Muskie court teams were forced to kick themselves into overdrive for a busy week of competition. All four squads resumed NorWOSSA action yesterday afternoon in Dryden […]
Press Release Four Manitoba men have been fined a total of $5,000, and are suspended from angling in Ontario for one year, after pleading guilty to fishing violations on Shoal Lake, which has a protected walleye population. Rheal Vermette and Garry Chaput of St. Jean Baptiste, Donald Hildebrandt of Morris, […]
the MNR A Marathon woman has been fined $1,500 for deer-hunting violations. Trisha Brackett pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000 for discharging a firearm from and across a road and $500 for shooting a doe without a permit. Court heard that on Oct. 29, a member of the public reported […]
