Hydro One is warning customers of potential damage and outages ahead of a weekend windstorm. The utility’s Tiziana Baccega-Rosa says damaging gusts are expected in most parts of the province, but some areas will be harder hit. “Very much around the lake shores will see the highest wind gusts that may...

The Alzheimer’s Committee for Cochrane is organizing a health care service and provider event on Saturday, May 11th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at the Commando Pavilion. Committee president Yvette Larabee says it’s primarily aimed at dementia patients and their caregivers. “Dementia of course is part of it,” she acknowledges, “but there...

Newcomers to Canada living in and around Cochrane have a free resource to help them navigate the immigration process. On the third Wednesday on every month – so this coming Wednesday – the outreach coordinator from the Timmins Multicultural Centre is at the Cochrane Public Library between 10:00am and 3:00pm.. Jaspreet...

The medical community in Kapuskasing says it’s at a breaking point and not in a position to host forest fire and flood evacuees from the far north. This, as the town is expecting evacuees within the coming weeks. Sensenbrenner Hospital CEO France Dallaire says she doesn’t want to create panic...

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...