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The Ontario government has invested $2,250,000 towards filming two seasons of a Francophone comedy in Greater Sudbury. Ramville is a comedy about a hockey fan club in a small, fictitious mill town.

Sudbury photographer Stanley Koren took this picture of “the old General Hospital” recently. “The old General had just been closed up and I just thought the light looked just right for a formal portrait,” he wrote in an e-mail to Northern Life.

Rough economic times mean good times for comedians, according to two comics who will perform this week at the Sudbury Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival in Greater Sudbury. The festival began May 26 and ends with a show by Howie Mandel, May 28, at 7 p.m.

Music will be blasting, bodies will be shimmying and the strobe lights will be out in full force. The only thing that separates this dance from the rest is what’s being served at the bar. Ardiss Fenske’s first husband was an alcoholic.

OPP Const. Jeannine Grassie, North Bay Unit Highway Safety Division, northeast region, checks for outdated, stolen and unauthorized plates in the automated license plate recognition car.

Greater Sudbury entertainment listings for the week of May 27. To post your listing, e-mail [email protected] , phone 673-5667 ext. 373, fax 673-4352. Include high-resolution images, minimum 500 kb. Post your listing online .

With its rugged coastlines, exquisite cuisine and value to Canadian travellers, travel expert Ron Lonsdale from Collette Vacations said there has probably never been a better time to go to Portugal.

Shopping at local businesses has never been easier, or cheaper, thanks to Northern Life's new online store. Starting May 29 at 9 a.m., ShopSudbury.ca will sell gift cards for 30 per cent less than their value.

Four comedians from across Canada will be fighting for the Crown of Comedy at the Laugh out Loud Sudbury Comedy festival, and Greater Sudbury's own Josh Charette will be one of them.

Summer sales aren't the only attraction coming to the New Sudbury Centre. CORPUS, a Toronto-based dance and theatre company has partnered with Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, to perform three of its shows at the mall on June 4 and 5.