Posts Tagged ‘Marathon News’
Written by Tyler Davis on 27 January 2015
WEEKLY REVIEW Is it just me, or is there a serious shortage of quality war movies these days? War movies typically offer viewers loads of action, as well as historical lessons that are relevant even in today’s society as many brave men and women continue to fight for our freedom. Not [Read more]
Written by Tyler Davis on 20 January 2015
WEEKLY WRAP It has been said that the average human being only uses ten percent of their brain. What would happen if someone, somehow figured out a way to use more. In this week’s headline new release, this premise is explored when a woman unlocks the ability to use significantly more of her [Read more]
Written by Town of Marathon on 20 January 2015
MARATHON, ON – The Marathon Fire Department is pleased to announce the graduation of Jaedyn Senden from their first Fire Cadet Program. In January of 2014 four local teenagers joined the Cadet Program. Two of the cadets began college in the fall of 2014 and moved to Thunder Bay and one left [Read more]
Written by Reader Submission on 16 January 2015
MARATHON, ON – Marathon Sno-Kickers lent their groomer to the Longlac Snow Club as their machine is needing a costly repair for which no funding was available from the OFSC. Thanks to the collaboration between Northwestern Ontario clubs Longlac will now have a groomed snowmobile trail for [Read more]
Written by Tyler Davis on 13 January 2015
WEEKLY WRAP-UP One of the downsides of the holiday season in the movie industry is often a lack of new releases. Now that we are well into January, the uptick of new releases will be fast and furious leading right through to February when a number of award nominated movies will debut. There will a [Read more]
Written by Tyler Davis on 06 January 2015
RESOLVE TO WATCH It’s 2015 and the Crossover Insider is back! Here’s hoping that everyone had a very enjoyable and fulfilling holiday season! 2015 is shaping up to be an exciting one in the movie world as a number of highly anticipated big blockbuster hits will be debuting in theatres, DVD and [Read more]
Written by Superior-Greenstone District School Board on 05 January 2015
Submitted by Stacey Wallwin, E-Learning Contact SGDSB TERRACE BAY, ON – During the week of December 8-14, Superior-Greenstone District School Board participated in the global Hour of Code event. 25 teachers and over 600 students participated in this global event. To date over 80 152 842 [Read more]
Written by Superior East OPP on 16 December 2014
WAWA, ON – On the 06 December 2014, at approximately 2:00 am members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East Wawa Detachment were on general patrol in the Town of Wawa when they observed a very intoxicated female staggering on the street. OPP officers stopped and interviewed the [Read more]
Written by Confederation College on 07 December 2014
Confederation College is pleased to announce the appointment of Nicole Richmond to the position of Director of the Greenstone (Geraldton), Northshore (Marathon) and Wawa Campuses as of December 1, 2014. Originally from Marathon, Nicole is a member of the Pic River First Nation. She has been [Read more]
Written by Superior-Greenstone District School Board on 05 December 2014
MARATHON, ON – The Superior-Greenstone District School Board held its Inaugural Board Meeting on Friday, December 5 where several new Board members were welcomed. The municipal elections held last October, resulted in the three new Board members including Tara Pitre representing [Read more]
Written by Conseil Scolaire Publique Grand Nord Ontario on 05 December 2014
SUDBURY, ON – Students of École secondaire Cité-Supérieure in Marathon won two medals at the regional Cardboard Boat Races held recently in Thunder Bay. The school’s two teams will move on to the provincial competition to be held on March 5th in Kitchener, Ontario. Known for their speed, [Read more]
Written by admin on 03 December 2014
NORTHWESTERN, ON – Highway 17 East of Terrace Bay to Marathon (and at times through to White River) was closed repeatedly this past weekend due to freezing rain and packed ice. Travelers who made it through the portion of highway between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning were [Read more]
Written by admin on 02 December 2014
TYLER’s INSIDE REVIEW December has arrived and the countdown to Christmas can officially begin! Santa is not the only one known to bring lots of “gifts” during the month, as the fine folks at the movie studios always deliver plenty of big blockbuster hits right in time for the holidays. This [Read more]
Written by Thunder Bay District CrimeStoppers on 01 December 2014
MARATHON, ON – December 16th 2014 Crime Stoppers, the OPP and Macs convenience stores will be joining together for Operation HEAT. The OPP will be handing out hot beverage coupons to sober drivers (Coupons provided by TBay District Crime Stoppers). A RIDE program will be set up in front of [Read more]
Written by admin on 28 November 2014
MARATHON, ON – The video below, provided by Environment Canada to InfoSuperior, shows divers collecting cores from the Peninsula Harbour sediment cap for further analysis. The video was taken during monitoring activities of the thin-layer cap. [Read more]