Local & Area News

Mar 4, 2018 @ 20:51     This is the 16th or 17th Annual Michipicoten Volunteer Firefighters Association Cash Draw. This year by 1 p.m. the firefighters had sold out their tickets. They will be back later this year with tickets for the 2017/18 Cash Draw. Proceeds from this go to the firefighters Equipment Fund.  

March 4th Happy 11th birthday Auston Love Mom, Dad, Elizabeth, pineapple, and Storm      

Mar 4, 2018 @ 12:30 Canadian Orebodies Inc. is pleased to announce results from the Company’s fall 2017 Black Raven prospecting program and the discovery of multiple high-grade gold bearing vein structures that represent a significant new discovery in the Hemlo camp. Initial prospecting and sampling carried out on the Black Raven Project uncovered new gold-bearing veins either in outcrop ...

Mar 4, 2018 @ 11:50   This year’s winner of the $30,000 Registration Prize at the Wawa Ice Fishing Derby was no stranger standing beside the ticket barrel. Kurt (Maysen) Geldart is the winner of the cash prize.   In 2014, Kurt (Jake) Geldart won the Registration Prize of a truck, a 2014 Dodge RAM 1500 4×4 SXT Quad Cab. ...

Mar 4, 2018 @ 11:42 The family of Agnes McDougall Stevens (nee Robertson) sadly announces her passing at the age of 93, on February 25, 2018. Agnes was born in Dundee, Scotland on March 5, 1924. Agnes will be missed by her son Andy (Sharon) and her daughter Anne (Selly Pajamaki ), as well as her grandchildren Ryan (Jocelynn), Glenn ...

Mar 4, 2018 @ 11:41 Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 13 15 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 10 15 HOFFMANN, Jim 3 9 15 SPENCER, Reg 4 7 15 SZEKELY, Marc 4 7 15 BOYD, Katherine 6 6 15 HALL, Jennifer 7 4 14 McCOY, Joe 8 3 14 Schedule for Thursday – March 8,  2018 Ice 1 Ice 2 ...

Mar 4, 2018 @ 11:29     The Michipicoten Volunteer Firefighters Association made a donation yesterday. Rob Sanderson and  Sam Rowe presented Maryanne Pearson and Albert Nichols with a cheque for $2,000 that will help the Legion in their ‘Lift for the Legion’ accessibility fundraising campaign.

Mar 4, 2018 @ 11:17   Rob Sanderson and  Sam Rowe presented Maryanne Pearson and Albert Nichols with a cheque representing the funds that were raised during the Annual Wawa Emergency Services Hockey Game. $1,850 was raised and will help the Legion in their ‘Lift for the Legion’ accessibility fundraising campaign.

Mar 4, 2018 @ 8:50   This is your last chance to purchase your tickets for the $10,000 and three $1,000 cash draws that will be made today. Come down to the MMCC and get your ticket!

  This year the Wawa Ice Fishing Derby Early Bird Draw Winners took home prizes of $500 CASH! Ten names were drawn: David Crack, SSM Danielle Stewart, Wawa Don Maguire, SSM Christie Reid, Wawa Jason Pelletier, Wikwemikong Marie Andre Boivir, Wawa Dennis McCoy, SSM Gilbert Legace, Wawa Steve Farkas, SSM and John Newport of Wawa. In order to be eligible for the ...



Mar 2, 2018 @ 11:58 Rector Machine Works Ltd is pleased to announce that they have received the CWB certification for aluminum fabrication (W47.2). “This is a big step for us, since we’re the only shop in the Algoma Area  that is certified,” said Walter Barbon, Welding/Fabricating Supervisor. “Aluminum work can now come to us and is completed onsite.” “The ...

Mar 2, 2018 @ 10:46     February may have come and gone but it certainly was a very busy month for the staff and students of Sir James Dunn.  The Grade 8 Game Changers were busy organizing a few things at the school.  At the beginning of January, each classroom was approached to make some Valentine Cards for the ...

Mar 2, 2018 @ 10:43 On March 2, 2018, at approximately 2:00 a.m., members of the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested the male responsible for causing a disturbance and damaging property at a Dunn Road apartment in Elliot Lake, Ontario.   On March 1, 2018, at approximately 7:55 a.m. the OPP received numerous complaints of a male knocking ...

  This snowmobiler is one of two that passed by the Goose as I was wondering if there would be a sunset to photograph. The sun disappeared behind the clouds and what appeared to be fog, just as the snowmobiles went by.