With the beautiful lake you can walk around or across in the middle of Cochrane, it’s pretty easy to get some physical activity.  And this month, it could mean prize money to support Hillcrest Park. Again this year, the Cochrane Park Pals are participating in the Participaction Community Challenge to...

Open houses early next month will discuss the plan to build a 500-kilovolt electrical transmission line from Timmins to Chapleau and Wawa. Hydro One vice-president of strategic projects and partnerships, Sonny Karunakaran says you can meet the project team and find out what point they’re at, and what’s to come. He...

Cochrane Mayor Peter Politis says there’s one obstacle to recruiting primary care doctors for his town, and it’s coming from the organization that runs Lady Minto Hospital. The mayor says the town puts together impressive incentives to have doctors locate in town. But MICs Health Services isn’t offering them shifts...

Last September, it was Cochrane.  Now, at end of business on August 10th, Iroquois Falls loses its Beer Store. It’s one of ten locations across Ontario to close that day, in what a company news release calls “a difficult decision”. It offers no explanation. The release also says that effective January...

A petition campaign has begun against a plan to erect between 18 and 21 wind turbines on rural land in Iroquois Falls. Town council has been asked for support for the plan by the privately owned Invenergy, which would generate electricity with the turbines and money for the town. Lisa Mousseau...

Our local history feature this week looks at the front page of the Cochrane Times from June 3rd, 1995. It features a story about local resident Michael Palangio drilling town council on why it hadn’t put the airport manager position out to tender.  It had been held since 1980 by...