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SUDBURY—While the Sudbury and District Health Unit budget has increased for 2013, it will not mean an increase in the overall municipal levy for the budgeted year. At a meeting last week, the Sudbury and District Board of Health passed a motion accepting the proposed 2013 health...

GORE BAY—Gore Bay water users will be provided with a water meter information package this week after council agreed on information to be included in the proposal at a meeting last week. “This is based on our last committee meeting of the whole, the next steps to get input from...

OTTAWA—While Carol Hughes, MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing (AMK), has an Adjournment Debate scheduled for this week focussing on the need for a new roof to be put on the Mississagi Lighthouse, a member of the LaCloche Manitoulin Lighthouse Association is perplexed as to why...

A very nice video of a lynx captured on a trail cam and sent in by one of our reader.

BIRCH ISLAND––The Whitefish River First Nation Seven Fires Youth and Elders’ Centre grand opening attracted a significant crowd of well-wishers recently as the ribbon was cut for the building located on the grounds of the former band office. Master of ceremonies Dennis McGregor...

It has been especially ironic in Canada and other Commonwealth countries that pay homage to the wartime efforts of their military personnel, past and present, on November 11 that this special week just passed, Veterans’ Week, has been bracketed by the escalation of hostilities in...

LITTLE CURRENT—The Manitoulin Coalition for Safe Energy Alternatives (MCSEA) has announced it has filed an appeal against the Ministry of Environment’s (MOE) Renewable Energy Approval that was granted last month to Northland Power’s (NPI) McLean’s Mountain wind farm project,...

MINDEMOYA––Manitoulin Family Resources’ (MFR) annual Christmas campaign is underway––the fundraising effort aimed at pumping up supplies for the annual food hamper program. Like many food banks across the North, the Manitoulin effort is volunteer-driven and largely dependant on...

To the Expositor: I have read stories in your paper about wind turbines and hospital cutbacks. I wonder if your readers are aware there is an interesting financial connection between these two stories? In the name of reducing the deficit, the Ontario government has seen fit to...

MANITOULIN—All is quiet on the Monday of rifle season. After the hustle and bustle of the weekend—trucks and trailers streaming onto Manitoulin’s highways—the downtown cores of the Island’s communities are still and hushed, not unlike a holiday Monday. In fact, the first day of...