A prom when you graduate from high school is a major milestone. For the third consecutive year, an Iroquois Falls woman is spearheading a project to make sure every grad has a dress or suit for the occasion. Heather Wollan says her basement is full with over 180 donated dresses, about...

Take a high school drama class,add a murder mystery along the lines of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”,  make it into a dinner theatre, and you have the latest production at Iroquois Falls Secondary School. Drama teacher Barb Cornthwaite says it’s the first dinner theatre at IFSS since...

The latest promotion with Tim Hortons Smile cookies is coming up in a couple weeks. This time in Cochrane, says Community Living supervisor Tanya Beauchamp-Bernard, her group gets all the proceeds from cookie sales. “The event starts April 29th to May 5th, “ she says, “and we are responsible for...

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...

On the same day the federal NDP announced that Charlie Angus of Timmins-James Bay would not run in the next election, it also announced Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing’s Carol Hughes is calling it a day. The 16-year MP says she’ll spend more time with her retired husband and their family, which includes five...

Next Wednesday, the organization that operates the hospitals and long-term facilities in Cochrane, Iroquois Falls and Matheson is planning a career day. MICs Health Care Group CEO Paul Chatelain says it’s in the upstairs hall at the Jus Jordan Arena in Iroquois Falls. It offers high school students a look at...