As of Monday, the full stretch of Algonquin Blvd. that’s undergoing reconstruction this summer will be shut down. The city’s manager of engineering, Scott Collin, says the pavement between Brunette Rd. and Balsam St. will be ground up and removed. Digging will begin once the railway overpass is gone. “Removing the...

The shelves are pretty bare lately, and the Timmins Food Bank has issued a top ten list of the things most needed. President Rick Young says there are certain items the food bank’s running out of currently. “Cereal, canned pasta, pasta sauce, jam and peanut butter are the main things that...

The next looming deadline for Safe Health Site Timmins – the supervised injection site on Cedar Street North – is June 30th, when its permission to allow drug consumption expires. Operation is transitioning from the district hospital to the Canadian Mental Health Association. CMHA executive director Paul Jalbert says several...

The South Porcupine Arena Association has picked up $630,000 in grants for new ice making equipment and dressing room renovations at the Carlo Cattarello Arena. Presenting $330,000 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, Timmins MPP George Pirie reminisced about growing up on the Dome mine property and at Dome Ex. ...

Workers are chipping away at the concrete underpass on Algonquin Blvd. at Spruce St., sending the century-old railroad underpass into history.  In this week’s local history feature, museum director-curator Karen Bachmann points out it wasn’t always concrete. “It was wooden bracing,” she states. It was like any other rail bridge...

A Timmins optometrist is urging us not to look at Monday afternoon’s solar eclipse. Dr. Thierry Guindon says you could burn the retina at the back of your eyeball. On a normal day, the brightness of the sun prevents you from looking at it before the light can cause damage. “What happens...