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A private contractor will be hooking up to the storm sewer and will close the north bound curb lane on Regent Street, south of Hyland Drive to just in front of the former école St-Denis, March 21 to March 24. Work will be done between 9 a.m. and 3 p.

The Lively ski hill is now closed for the season. Adanac will continue to operate, weather permitting, until Thursday, March 24 when the night ski from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. will be your last chance to get some runs in before the end of season.

During the next six months, the Sudbury & District Health Unit will assume administrative control of the city's needle exchange program.

The Homelessness Network of Sudbury has announced an extreme cold weather alert that will be in place for the next 24 hours.

Nickel Belt MP Marc Serré announced funding Friday for two landfill improvement projects for Killarney and French River.

Although it got off to a bit of a late start, this year's snowmobile season was almost on par with previous years, said the president of the Sudbury Trail Plan Association. “We're slowly drawing to a close,” Chuck Breathat told NorthernLife.

John Baird, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Harper government, will be presented with an honourary doctorate of sacred letters at Huntington University next week. The convocation ceremony will be held on March 23 at 7 p.m.

Laurentian Hospital's first ever female board chair, Maureen Lacroix, was presented with an honourary doctorate of Sacred Letters from the University of Sudbury March 17.

Gas prices in Sudbury have dipped about two cents per litre over the past day after a spike earlier this week. Most gas stations in the city are now charging 97.6, according to GasBuddy.com . The cheapest gas in town is 95.

It's not going to feel like Spring is two days away out there today. Mainly sunny throughout the day but the high will only get up to -3. Partly cloudy in the evening with temperatures falling to a low of -18.