Local News

BY JASON THOMPSON [email protected] In the midst of wrapping up their adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Cambrian announced plans for the 2006-2007 production season, unveiling five new shows at a press conference Friday.

The "S" Days are back again as Greater Sudbury Police, along with a collection of community partners, are preaching snowmobile safety to area high-school students.

City officials say a job action planned by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4705 and Local 148 for Thursday, Feb. 23 will have an impact on local municipal government services.

BY ROBERT TAGLIALEGNE Ontario's college faculty staged a information picket at Cambrian College Monday to pressure college management into signing a new collective agreement and avert a looming strike.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] The city is encouraging citizens to go to greatersudbury.carpooltool.com and register themselves on an online carpool network.

Faculty from Ontario community colleges will hold an information picket today at a gala banquet for college administrators today at 4:30 pm to protest what organizers call management's stonewalling tactics in bargaining.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory questioned the Liberal government's intent to keep their promise to boost post-secondary funding while speaking in Sudbury Monday morning.

BY BILL BRADLEY [email protected] Music and Film in Motion will be celebrating with the finest music and film artists in Northern Ontario next September in Sudbury at their annual film awards ceremony.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] A mentally disabled Elliot Lake man will have to live with a painful stomach condition for a few more months because Sudbury Regional Hospital (SRH) has a limit on the surgery he needs.

The west end of Notre Dame St. (MR 21) in Azilda will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Montee Principale and Rayside Avenue from Monday, Feb. 20 to Friday, March 3. The lane closure will be in effect between 7 am and 7 pm, Monday to Friday.