MANITOULIN-- This years Labour Day holiday weekend kept officers busy from Friday, August 31 to Monday, September 3. During the weekend, Manitoulin Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were out in full force on the Island highways and waterways making sure everyone had a safe weekend. Eight RIDE initiatives were conducted highways, waterways and trails across Manitoulin with a total of 558 vehicles, ves ...

MANITOULIN—News of bears coming within close proximity of Island communities has been coming in over the past week, with sightings being reported most recently in both Little Current and Wikwemikong. Officers with both the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service and United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin Anishnaabe Police all say that with the dry summer conditions leading to a ...

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 ...

  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 ...

Tom Sasvari The Recorder MANITOULIN––The communities of Assiginack and Wikwemikong are in a state of shock after two young Island children died in separate drowning accidents while at family gatherings. On Monday, July 23 at 7:30 pm, a young couple, Victor Reckman and Karen James Reckman, along with their six children, were attending a family picnic to celebrate the couple’s anniversary. The picnic was loca ...

MANITOULIN—Manitoulin Island has been shocked and saddened by the news of two child drownings within a two-day period: a six-year-old boy on Sunday at Wikwemikong and a 20-month-old boy on Monday on South Bay in Assiginack. The Wikwemikong incident took place at the King’s Bay beach (located at the end of Rabbit Island Road in the community) and although Wikwemikong Tribal Police could release few details f ...

by Robin Burridge LITTLE CURRENT—Earlier this month, Northeast Town council passed a motion supporting the dedication of the Graham Creek Bridge in Honora in memory of Constable Lloyd C. Lackey. Constable Lackey, who was posted to the Little Current detachment, was killed in a motor vehicle collision in 1972. Constable Lackey was on duty returning from a call in M’Chigeeng (then West Bay) First Nation on Su ...

by Alicia McCutcheon GORE BAY—Staff of the Gore Bay courthouse are once again working from different premises as more mould has been discovered. When a leak was discovered in a public washroom on the main floor of the courthouse during the weekend of March 31, mould was also revealed during the subsequent repair work. According to Brendan Crawley, a media spokesperson with the Ministry of the Attorney Gener ...

MANITOULIN--The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will use all available resources this Victoria Day weekend to ensure that Ontario's highways, trails and waterways remain among the safest in the world. This weekend traditionally kicks off the summer driving season and the OPP expects to see a significant increase in traffic. The OPP is reminding the public that they will not tolerate any unsafe driving habit ...

Jason Forrest The Recorder EVANSVILLE—Statistics provided by the Manitoulin Ontario Provincial Police show that in 2011, the township of Burpee and Mills had zero criminal offences, six property crimes, two of which were solved, three solved criminal code infractions and five out of nine crime calls cleared, (a 55.6 percent clearance rate), which is more than double the provincial average. Manitoulin OPP St ...