McGuinty Government Growing Forestry Sector, Creating Jobs Ontario has established the province’s first Local Forest Management Corporation, the Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, to re-energize the forestry sector, create jobs and boost the economy. This government agency will [Read more]
Ontario’s Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth has helped to make Ontario one of the most attractive places in the industrialized world to invest. Ontario follows only California and New York as the world’s favourite destination for foreign direct investment in North America. Benefits [Read more]
McGuinty Government Co-ordinating Specialized Resources to Support Rescue Efforts in Mall Collapse Ontario is co-ordinating the deployment of additional resources to help in the rescue operations at the collapsed Algo Centre Mall in Northern Ontario’s Elliot Lake. More resources are arriving [Read more]
LACHINE, QC ̶ Canoe-Kayak Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee presented the team of paddlers nominated to represent Canada at the Olympic Games. Seven sprint paddlers and two slalom paddlers will take to the water in London in the pursuit of medals. [Read more]
Special Meetings of Council: Tuesday, June 26th @ 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers – Management will provide a departmental overview of their respective budgets for the benefit of the public (click for agenda) Wednesday, June 27th @ 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers Manitouwadge Municipal Housing [Read more]
Photos will be added shortly, please check back again soon (see link below for school track & field day links where 100’s of photos are available) MANITOUWADGE, ON – June 19th, Our Lady of Lourdes School held it’s annual Invitational Track & Field meet. Though this [Read more]
Photography courtesy of Linda Osiecki MANITOUWADGE, ON – June 13th Grade 3-8 students from Our Lady of Lourdes school competed in their annual Track & Field Day under sunny skies after originally being rescheduled due to rain the day prior. The students competed with great sportsmanship [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – June 23, 2012 at approximately 8:10 a.m. Nipigon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call of an overdue boater on Lake Nipigon. Officers of the Nipigon OPP with the assistance of the North West Region Emergency Response Team (ERT), OPP air services, and Civil Air [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Chad Shostal, a Thunder Bay construction supervisor, was fined $10,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. On July 12, 2011, Mr. Shostal, who was working for an independent contractor, was supervising workers shingling the [Read more]
ALGOMA-MANITOULIN-KAPUSKASING – Sometimes it can be difficult to see that parliament can work in a non-partisan way. Scandals heat up, rhetoric becomes entrenched, and significant differences in viewpoints often lead to heated sittings that make for great news broadcasts, but isn’t really [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Manitouwadge High School announced to parents and guardians of students today that the Superior-Greenstone District School Board has increased teaching staff to bring the number of teachers on staff up to 12.67. The Superior Greenstone DSB had promised this increase at [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Wednesday June 13, 2012, at 7:00 pm, Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers received information of a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 east of Marathon ON. A Jeep Cherokee pulling a U-Haul trailer exited a gas station heading eastbound. A tractor trailer unit also [Read more]
Break/Enter and Theft Crime Stoppers and the Greenstone OPP are asking for your help in solving a Break, Enter & Theft into three cabins at Paint Lake Cabins located on Road 801 in Greenstone. These crimes occurred sometime between May 7th and May 9th 2012. The suspects gained entry by [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – 9 students from the Confederation College Northshore campus in Marathon, crossed the stage today at the 2012 Convocation Ceremony, to signify and celebrate the completion of their academic programs. The nine students graduated from Concurrent Disorders, Social Service Worker, [Read more]
OPP INVESTIGATE MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION NIPIGON, ON – Saturday June 2, 2012 at 6:00 am, Schreiber Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a call of a single vehicle collision on Hwy 17, Township of Wiggins, west of Pays Plat First Nation. The driver of an east bound car left the [Read more]
