HIGHWAY 6--The Ontario Provincial Police is reminding all drivers to practice safe driving habits as the winter weather approaches. Members of the Espanola OPP detachment have responded to many aggressive driving complaints along Highway 6 between Espanola and Little Current. Many of the complaints have been about tractor trailers travelling too fast or aggressively on the roadway. Speeding and aggressive d ...

NORTH BAY—A spokesperson for the Northern Ontario-based environmental group Northwatch calls a Swedish review that has found major shortcomings in Sweden’s nuclear waste repository plan a ‘huge setback’ (for a nuclear waste burial plan) being proposed by Nuclear Waste Management Ontario (NWMO). “I don’t think this report will be enough to sway communities from taking this waste, as it is not conclusive, but ...

GORE BAY—As is the case in many areas of the province and along the Great Lakes, the Town of Gore Bay will need to do something to alleviate the problem with decreasing levels of water in its harbour-marina. “With the water levels being so low, we are going to have to look at whatever options we can to compensate for this, due to the problems the low levels have caused,” said Gore Bay Mayor Ron Lane in an i ...

MANITOULIN—A representative for a financial institution that is in possession of, and holds the mortgage, on the Carter Bay property confirmed Wednesday an offer has been made and accepted on the property from a well-known Ontario company. Sean McKay, a representative for an Ontario financial institution, told the Recorder, “I hold the mortgage on the property and am handling the sale of the Carter Bay and ...

MICHIGAN—By the end of next summer, Steve Libert and his Great Lakes Exploration Group will know if a discovery he made many years ago in northern Lake Michigan is the shipwreck of the Griffon. “We did exploration work the first week of October, including 15 of us in (a northern Lake Michigan) area,” stated Mr. Libert in an interview with the Recorder on Monday. He explained, “we did sub-bottom profiler wor ...