Gerald ‘Gerry’ Pilon passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday March 27, 2014 at the age of 70 years. Loving father of Danny and Jerry (Melissa). Step-grandfather of Tricia. Dear brother of the late Marcel Pilon, the late Leo Pilon (Angela) and Susan Gadory. Gerry will be [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – March 26th was designated as World Wide Epilepsy Awareness Day and certainly the students and staff at Manitouwadge Public School had more than one reason for jumping in with all they had. We have one little trooper in our school – Miah Wheadon – who has a very [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – The Manitouwadge Cancer Assistance Group has announced Saturday, May 10th as the date of their annual Share the Care fundraising walk. The walk, and BBQ, have become a tradition for many, a wonderful way to celebrate the arrival of Spring and see the friends and neighbours [Read more]
Ski Season Concludes on March 30th MANITOUWADGE, ON – The Township of Manitouwadge, Community Services Department would like to thank the public for their patronage at Kiwissa Ski Centre during the 2013-2014 season. Sunday, March 30th will mark the last day of the 2013/14 season, which [Read more]
TYLER’s INSIDE REVIEW At the age of 26, Jordan Belfort had more money than he knew what to do with. With a cool, crisp 49 million dollars rolling in per year, the only thing that he was upset about was the fact it wasn’t 52- you know, to make it an even million per week, [Read more]
This week in Queen’s Park the NDP announced their plan to create jobs for families in Ontario through a targeted tax credit that rewards job creators for new hires. This tax credit will help small businesses that are creating jobs here Algoma-Manitoulin and northern Ontario not the ones [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – This week our Manitouwadge Public School Student Council planned a ‘Tie Day’ at the school. Again it was so great to see so many students and all the staff members showing off a tie – albeit some of them were a little more elaborate than others. The [Read more]
The 2013 Dirty Girls Thunder Bay Mud Run was a huge success, the open registration held at the Intercity Mall, sold out within 3hrs and attendance at the full day event far surpassed the expectations of organizers. For 2014 organizers, by popular request, chose to change things up, inviting [Read more]
TYLER’S INSIDE REVIEW The month of March continues to bring about a whole slew of great new movies- including several Academy Award winners and nominees. This week is no different. The winner of the Best Animated Feature Award, Frozen, debuts this week to much excitement and anticipation. [Read more]
This week marked another constituency week where I had the opportunity to tour the riding and offer clinics. I visited several communities in the northwestern part of the riding and heard many of your concerns. Unfortunately things are not improving for many families. Affordability continues [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Manitouwadge Town Council will gather tonight for the regular meeting and the agenda is certainly a long one including a late addition to the agenda; a request from the NFMC to harvest near the cemetery. It is likely that Councillor Connie Hunter, will declare a conflict [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – As long as kids have been going to school, students have welcomed the opportunity to have a ‘Spring Break’. This week Manitouwadge Public School students will enjoy their much deserved rest and they are well prepared, in all aspects, for the interaction [Read more]
FROM THE EDITOR: Thank you to MPP Michael Mantha’s office for sharing the correspondence below with OntarioNewsNorth.com that we may keep the public informed as to the ongoing efforts, by the Algoma-Manitoulin MPP, to keep the issue of repairs to Industrial Road (a.k.a. Hwy 625) moving [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Founded by Devin Cornell in January 2000, Celtic Fury Irish Dance Company is the foremost Irish dance company in Canada. Celtic Fury’s production of the show Irish Fire has left in its wake crowds of people in awe of the talented performers that make the show come [Read more]
Thanks to @DavidJaremy from Hornepayne whose tweet “Great night of singles action in Manitouwadge! Doubles tomorrow! #manitouwadge @ONTNewsNorth” led OntarioNewsNorth.com to cover the tournament Saturday. Tweet @ONTNewsNorth with your story, photos or video and you could see them [Read more]
