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Men’s High Single – Dave Casavant ( 318 ) Women’s High Single – Mary Ellen Douchamie ( 283 ) Men’s High Triple – Dave Casavant ( 717 ) Women’s High Triple – Mary Ellen Douchamie ( 695 ) Team High Single ( Hdcp’d ) – Wilderness Helicopters Strike Force – ( 1412 ) Team High Triple ( Hdcp’d ) – ...

Weather – Clearing early this morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High minus 10. Wind chill minus 28 in the morning and minus 15 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 2 or low. Tonight – A few clouds. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h before morning. Low minus 18. Wind chill minus 19 in the evening and minus 28 ...

Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 9 11 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 7 11 BUCKELL, Chris 3 6 10 McCOY, Joe 3 6 10 SPENCER, Diane 5 5 11 KLOCKARS, Anna-Lise 6 4 10 HOFFMANN, Jim 6 4 11 BOYD, Katherine 8 3 10 HALL, Dave 8 3 10 Schedule for Thursday – February 14, 2019 Ice 1 Ice 2 ...

  The Lady Dunn Health Centre Foundation wishes to express a heartfelt thank you to the Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Command Branches and Ladies Auxiliaries’ Charitable Foundation for their donation of $5,000. These funds will be used to support the Digital Radiography Upgrade for the x-ray department.   This donation adds to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 429’s long history ...

In a quick email at 4:27 to media, a special meeting of council was announced for 7 p.m. in Council Chambers. All members of Council were present, and after approving the agenda, no declarations – council moved into an in-camera meeting. Mayor Rody informed the gallery that they would move into the back room in order to let the gallery ...

Sault Ste Marie Area – including Batchawana, Goulais River & areas Due to the sudden white out and weather issues and in the interest of safety, all school bus transportation is cancelled today in the Sault Ste. Marie areas for all Boards. Central Algoma Area – including Echo Bay, Bruce Mines, Desbarats, St. Joe Island,Thessalon & areas Due to the sudden white ...

There are no weather alerts this morning, and all buses are running. Highway 17 has been reopened. Weather – Periods of light snow. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this afternoon. High minus 16. Wind chill minus 30 in the morning and minus 24 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. Tonight Periods of light snow ending late ...

Feb 8, 2019 @ 07:01 At 3:25 OPP reopened the highway. Feb 7, 2019 @ 20:35 Hwy 17 is closed from White River to Terrace Bay due to poor weather conditions.

Feb 8, 2019 @ 06:58 At 5:05 this morning the highway was reopened. Feb 7, 2019 @ 19:31 Hwy 17 is closed from Batchawana to Wawa due to poor weather conditions.

You may wish to reconsider your travel plans for tomorrow. The winter storm warning that Environment Canada has made explains that the storm will bring a large area of snow to Northeastern Ontario and areas North of Superior tonight and Friday. Total snowfall amounts will reach 25 to 30 cm in most areas by Friday morning. Locally higher amounts near 40 cm ...

Mayor and Council of the Municipality of Wawa are pleased to announce that Ms. Maury O’Neill has been hired as the Chief Administrative Officer-Treasurer effective March 4, 2019. Ms. O’Neill brings 25 years of experience in economic development, municipal administration and planning. She has headed the EDC of Wawa for 15 years and prior to that was employed as the ...

Ontario’s Government for the People is supporting economic growth, job creation and resource development in northwestern Ontario by providing certainty around the construction of a new transmission line between Thunder Bay and Wawa. Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines and Minister of Indigenous Affairs visited Fort William First Nation today to announce that Ontario has directed the ...

Castor and Pollux are bright stars belonging to the constellation Gemini and are part of the dozen bright stars that light up the winter sky. They represent the heads of the twin which were actually half brothers as stated in mythology. Located 34 light years away, Pollux is a magnitude 1.14 orange coloured star, It has a diameter of 9 ...

The Superior East Community Futures Development Corporation (SECFDC) is a non-profit organization offering small business and regional community economic development services to the Superior East region.   During the 2018 year the Board approved loans totalling $961,200, which includes $736,200 in local loans. These loans maintained or created 67 jobs at a cost per job of $10,988.  They also served ...