Although an event next Thursday night at the Timmins Museum is being called Members’ Night, director-curator Kaitlyn Dubeau says anyone is welcome. The 50th anniversary celebration is drop-in style between 4:30 and 8:00pm. Dubeau says there will be refreshments; reduced prices on new merchandise in the gift shop and various presentations...

A new clock and scoreboard going in at the McIntyre Arena will be state of the art. City council has approved spending $195,870 plus HST for the four-sided device that features a video screen.. Mayor Michelle Boileau is looking forward to it. “Sounds like we’d be getting something quite nice with some...

A 33-year-old man from Bradford, 40 km south of Barrie, is up on drug and driving charges, after being stopped by police on Hwy. 144 on Monday afternoon. South Porcupine OPP say when they stopped a vehicle just north of Gogama, they found suspected crystal meth, fentanyl and cocaine with...

As of today (Wednesday, April 30th), the Cochrane Temiskaming Children’s Treatment Centre is called The Inspire Centre. Executive director Marie Rouleau says since 1995, it’s been serving children and youth from birth to 21 with diverse development needs. “We offer services in physiotherapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy, social work and we...

Ward 5 Timmins councillor Cory Robin has had his pay suspended for 60 days and been removed from the district social services board, over an email exchange with two members of the Voices of Timmins Facebook group. The city’s integrity commissioner recommended a 30-day pay suspension, but Coun. Bill Gvozdanovic...

Synthetic oil products that were dumped on Malette Road in the west end of Timmins got into a roadside creek, and the natural resources ministry wants to know who did it. Last week, conservation officers were told about several five-gallon containers that had been dumped.  They were all open. Anyone with...