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Hearst man running 1,000 km for cancer  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 1 day ago
About every three minutes, someone in Canada dies of cancer. Michel Haché of Hearst wants to help change that. [more]
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Crashed chopper was bound for Lumberjack Fest  Share Comments 
Posted 1 day ago
There were no flight data recorders on a helicopter that crashed near Elk Lake Friday, although National Transportation Safety Board investigators believe they can retrieve information from other components on the ill-fated flight. [more]
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Cochrane’s still small town despite ‘Big League’ success  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 1 day ago
What is perhaps most surprising about Tom Cochrane is that the man likes to talk. Ask him question and off he goes. Feed him a topic and he'll chat your ear off. [more]
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Reader recalls Hearst Public School’s first principal  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 1 day ago
Ernest Louis Tivy began teaching at the Hearst Public School in 1928 and was appointed the first principal in 1930, with a second teacher on staff, Florence Nancekieville. He served as principal for 2 more years, leaving in 1933. [more]
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Art Exhibition Celebrates late Fauquier Artist  Share Comments 
Posted 1 day ago
Fauquier region residents will soon rediscover Maurice Gaudreault's work, as the municipality of Fauquier-Strickland will pay tribute to the late sculptor during a memorial art gallery exhibition from August 7 to August 11. [more]
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Timmins Hospital to become joint replacement satellite  Share Comments 
Posted 1 day ago
In its ongoing effort to reduce wait times for joint replacement surgery, the Northeast Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is, over the course of this year, creating assessment centres in the region's largest communities, including Timmins. [more]
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Author Skrypuch researches latest book in Kap  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 1 day ago
Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch was in Kapuskasing recently, researching her latest project – a young-adult book about the internment of Turks in the camps located in Kapuskasing during the first World War. [more]
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Cochrane’s still small town despite ‘Big League’ success  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 4 days ago
What is perhaps most surprising about Tom Cochrane is that the man likes to talk. Ask him question and off he goes. Feed him a topic and he'll chat your ear off. [more]
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Chopper crash victims were bound for Kapuskasing  Share Comments 
Updated 5 days ago
Two people are dead after a helicopter crashed in what the OPP is describing as a heavily wooded between area between Elk Lake and Gowganda. The Temiskaming OPP where contacted shortly after 2:00 p.m. [more]
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Lumberjack Heritage Festival road closures  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
The following road closures will take effect as of July 22 at 7 a.m. due to the Lumberjack Heritage Festival. a) McPherson Avenue from Highway 11 (just beyond to the Bay view Apartments) to Riverside Drive. [more]
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Honourary lumberjack  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
Seventy-nine-year-old Marcel Barriault now spends his summers relaxing in his trailer at Twin Lakes, but 50 years ago he would have spent his summer in the bush, a place he knows well, having spent his entire working life in the forests around Kapuskasing. [more]
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Kap’s ready for lumberjack festival party  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
Sharpen those axes and pull on those work boots...the 11th annual Lumberjack Heritage Festival des bûcherons. With free admission to the park being offered once again, Riverside Park will be the place to be during day on Saturday and Sunday. [more]
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Highway to Kap  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 7 days ago
Tom Cochrane is a Canadian music legend, no question. Canada loves him because he sings about Canada; Canada loves him because he's had U.S. success, but still calls Canada home; Canada loves him because the guy can put on a show. [more]
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Eco Fees not a tax grab, just bad public relations  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
Headlines, newscasts and newspaper letters pages have been a-buzz in the last couple of weeks as consumers raise a hew and cry over the introduction of an environmental, or 'eco', fee when purchasing certain products, like anti-freeze, for instance. [more]
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Regional 2010 Senior Games results  Share 
Posted 7 days ago
Bowling Gold: Géraldine Lozier +339 Silver: Yvain Noël +236 Bronze: Thérèse Hamann (no score available) Women: Armande Dumais +146 Men: Ed Karpa +94 Euchre Gold: Ernest et Suzanne Desgroseilliers Silver: Diane et Marcel Girouard Bronze: Monique Shoppoff et Diane Boutin Darts Gold: Gérard Brisson [more]
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Clarification  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
An article that ran in the July 7 edition of The Northern Times contained an error. In the story about the validation of a carbon credit tree plantation on Clear Lake Road in Kapuskasing, the company Trees For Clean Air was mistakenly named as the owner of the project. [more]
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Kapuskasing Council news  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
New power projects — With really no discussion, Kapuskasing Council passed a motion supporting Xeneca Power's plan to construct four run-of-river power dams on the Kapuskasing River, well up river from the Hydroméga dams nearer to this community. [more]
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Baseball field sign honours 50-year-old championship  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 7 days ago
Nearly 50 years after they became the first Northern Ontario team to win an all-Ontario fastball championship, the Val Albert Braves' amazing achievement has finally been memorialized. [more]
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Fifth straight win for Quebec knight at Medieval Festival  Share 
Posted 7 days ago
Mattice-Val Côté hosted what is possibly the most unique summer festival in the region. The brainchild of Gérard Chalifoux, the administrator at St-François-Xavier Church and a lover of all things medieval, the festival began five years ago. [more]
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News briefs  Share Comments 
Posted 7 days ago
Fighting solar power price change The Ontario Solar Network is arguing the Ontario Power Authority's plan to reduce the microFIT contract rates for ground-mounted solar projects will hurt an industry that is in its infancy. [more]
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From Kap to the Pentagon  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 16 days ago
Not many people can turn their passion into their job. Ms Theriault Theriault is not one of those people. The wildlife artist and portrait painter has been able to do just that. Originally from Kapuskasing, Ms Theriault now calls Great Sudbury home. [more]
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A Canadian first  Share Comments 
Posted 15 days ago
A Kapuskasing company in the new carbon offset credit sales market has become the first in the country to receive a third-party thumbs up for its business practices. [more]
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Kap man drowns at summer party  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
On Tuesday July 13th, 2010 at approx 7:00pm James Bay OPP Detachments - Kapuskasing were called to a drowning incident on Freddy Flat Rd. Several persons had been gathered at a gravel pit for a day of summer activities. [more]
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Chess champion  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 16 days ago
Samantha Powell is the second best chess player in Canada under the age of 17. Not only that, but also this is the second year in a row that the Cité des Jeunes student can claim that distinction. [more]
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Idol finalist Bixby coming to Kap  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 16 days ago
The Kap Outdoors Club is once again bringing entertainment to the Model Town, as Canadian country musician and Canadian Idol runner-up Jaydee Bixby takes the stage in the Civic Centre Auditorium on Aug. [more]
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HST: hard on the wallet, but maybe good for planet  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
Complaints about Ontario's new Harmonized Sales Tax abound since it came into effect, for most goods and services (some took effect beforehand), on July 1. [more]
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News briefs  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
Slight change coming for TV guide Thanks very much to readers who contacted The Times with some suggestions for changes to the new format of the TV guide. It was asked that we include weekend daytime listings to the guide, and we have looked into it and we will be able to modify the guide for that. [more]
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In the thick of the G20  Share Comments Photos 
Posted 16 days ago
The crowds. The smoke. The people. The action. Former Kapuskasing resident Mike Wood was part of all this last week during the G20 summit in Toronto. Although a roofer by trade, photography is a hobby for Mr. [more]
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Local 2995 and Thunder Bay local now merged  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
Steelworkers Local 2995 in Kapuskasing is no more. And it is 1,200 members stronger. Effective June 17, 1,800-member strong Local 2995 and dwindling Local 1-2693 in Thunder Bay have joined forces to form a new local, Local 1-2010. [more]
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No dollar amount released in Hearst bank fraud  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
Officers from the Crime Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police, James Bay Detachments have charged a former long time employee of the Caisse Populaire de Hearst Limitee, following a lengthy investigation into allegations of theft and fraud. [more]
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Work resumes at Smoky, no burial site found  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
Work has resumed out at Smoky Falls after it was stopped last week so that officials could investigate a report that a burial site was located in the area of ongoing construction. [more]
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Sensenbrenner Hospital 2009-2010 annual meeting  Share Comments 
Posted 16 days ago
Sensenbrenner Hospital annual general meeting report It was talk of recruitment, education and financial challenges at Sensenbrenner Hospital's annual general meeting this month. [more]
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