Press Release The Northwestern Health Unit and Healthy Kids Community Challenge are challenging you to “Turn Off The Screens” next week (April 30-May 6). Print off or pick up our log sheet at your local health unit office and join us in celebrating “Turn Off The Screens” 2018 by trying […]
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Jamie Mountain It was a solid showing overall for the Muskie track-and-field contingent at the Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet held Tuesday at Falls High School. Sekina Scheibler claimed top spot in boys’ discus with a throw of 137′,08.25″ while Aaron Scheibler was right behind at 105′,50″. […]
The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO–Washington manager Dave Martinez insisted Trea Turner and the Nationals would snap from their scoring slump soon–even as the losses piled up and the runs didn’t. Behind three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, Washington didn’t need much but got plenty. Turner got five hits, and […]
The Canadian PressJoshua Clipperton BOSTON–The Toronto Maple Leafs had been here before–up a goal heading into the third period of a Game 7 at TD Garden. Last night’s collapse won’t rewrite any record books but it hurts just the same. Jake DeBrusk scored his second of the night on a […]
Duane Hicks Allison Cox, left, the new director of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care, joined Riverside Foundation Special Events committee members Natalie DeGagne, Lynne Savage, and Livia Lundon in showing off some of the fabulous silent auction items donated for the annual spring luncheon slated for this Sunday (April […]
Sam Odrowski St. Michael’s School welcomed Gilbert Parent, founder of Les Bûcherons, for a presentation about French language and culture this morning. Parent did several French-related activites with the early-learning students, who participated in singing French songs, doing a circle dance, and line dancing. Other Catholic schools in the district […]
Sam Odrowski Casey Egan was among the many youngsters who had a chance to meet “Smokey the Bear” during J.W Walker’s Family Math and Arts Night held yesterday evening in the school gym. The Ministry of Natural Resources was at the event with “Smokey” to provide fire safety information to […]
The Canadian Press McBRIDE, B.C.–Two mountaineers from Poland unintentionally sparked an international rescue effort after being caught in an avalanche in eastern British Columbia. The men were climbing Whitehorn Mountain in the Canadian Rockies on Monday when they were hit by a major avalanche that tumbled them “quite a distance,” […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Doug Ford says that if elected premier of Ontario this spring, he’ll call a commission of inquiry into government spending on top of the full audit he’s already promised. The Progressive Conservative leader made the announcement a day after Ontario’s auditor general reported the Liberal government had […]
By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING — Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University […]
By Elias Meseret The Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The hair of a long-dead emperor and an intricate golden crown are among the artifacts Ethiopia’s government is demanding to be returned from British government institutions and private collections, as more countries seek to reclaim heritage they say was taken […]
The Associated Press BERLIN — Two people are under investigation in Germany after being caught in possession of some 60 kilograms (130 pounds) of stolen chocolate. Braunschweig police said Thursday a 35-year-old woman was nabbed by an alert cashier at a supermarket on Tuesday as she checked out only a […]
