SHEGUIANDAH FIRST NATION—Today, Wednesday, August 22, marks day 30 of the protest on the Sheguiandah First Nation which has the community at odds over the protestors’ main goal—to see the resignation of Chief Orville Aguonie. The protestors first began their campaign one month ago to bring to light alleged issues of nepotism, criminal charges against the chief and what Councillors Derek Assiniwe and Kevin M ...

The community divisions at Sheguiandah First Nation, characterized publicly by a protest vigil on Highway 6 in the community’s centre, have been going on long enough that it’s fairly safe to assume that reflections and observations on this unfortunate issue penned on Monday will still be valid on Wednesday’s publishing day, coincidentally the one-month anniversary of the around-the-clock protest. The electe ...

ESPANOLA--The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have released the names of the two people who perished in a motor vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon. Ricky Leduc, age 57, and Cecile Leduc, age 49, both of Hanmer, died after being involved in a collision with a dump truck on Highway 6, just south of Espanola. Three more people were taken to hospital in Sudbury yesterday. Two have since been released, with the ...

SHEGUIANDAH FIRST NATION—Monday was day 14 of the Sheguiandah First Nation protest, but in those 14 days, the protestors and Chief Orville Aguonie had still not met.The Expositor stopped by the protest encampment on Highway 6 on Monday and talked to Sheguiandah First Nation councillors Derek Assiniwe and Kevin Mishibinijima. The councillors, two of four elected officials comprising the band council, are cal ...

  UPDATE - Horrific Hwy 6 crash A dump truck and 2 passenger vehicles were in a collision on Hwy 6, south of Espanola, resulting in two fatalities. Three other injured individuals have been sent to Sudbury Health Sciences North. One lane is now open following the crash which has left two people dead and others injured on Hwy 6 south of Espanola. The OPP expect the road to be fully open after 11pm tonig ...

by Alicia McCutcheon SHEGUIANDAH FIRST NATION—The Sheguiandah First Nation has often been a community divided with decades-long rifts among families splitting the community apart over various issues. Over the past week, motorists driving along Highway 6 will have noticed an ongoing protest encampment directly across from the Manitoulin Trading Post, indicating that the community is once again divided with s ...

by Alicia McCutcheon LITTLE CURRENT—A painted turtle seemingly asking for help after having its shell chewed by a dog in Little Current was whisked to the safety of the Island Animal Hospital last week, the first step on its road to recovery. Dr. Mary Yett, proprietor of the Island Animal Hospital, contacted The Expositor last week, sharing the news of the rescued female, discovered pregnant with 10 eggs af ...

by Alicia McCutcheon LITTLE CURRENT—The funeral was to be held Tuesday for 45-year-old Shelly Eadie of Little Current, a mother of three, whose lifeless body was discovered by family members last Thursday, March 15 in her Hayward Street home. She died from an apparent drug overdose. This sad story comes fresh on the heels of the tragic case of eight-year-old Tori Stafford, the little girl whose name was spl ...

by Robin Burridge TORONTO—Though no representatives from the municipality of Assiginack attended last month’s annual Ontario Good Roads Association and Rural Ontario Municipal Association joint conference last month, clerk Alton Hobbs did travel to Toronto to meet with the honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, in between her engagements at the conference, receiving hopeful news about th ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder MELDRUM BAY—The Dawson Citizens Improvement Association (DCIA) will be lobbying to get cell service in their area, as part of the current NetCentral enhanced cell program for much of the Island, which is to be completed later this year or early in 2013. “On the cell phone service plans they have when we talked previously, we thought they would also be looking at the towers we have h ...