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Several community organizations are gathering to find “light in dark times” and to “welcome the return of the sun” with a winter solstice celebration starting at 6 p.m. Dec. 18.

Since an expansion nine months ago, the Amberwood Suites retirement home has been plagued with problems with its second elevator. The elevator, which was installed during the expansion, has been out of commission since then.

It was 1963, just a few weeks before Christmas. It promised to be a lean one for the Faulkner family.

Jeff Lafortune, a professor with the program, said Boréal decided to create the program after a series of committee meetings in 2007 and 2008.

Using a swirling design, 13-year-old Ivy Ireland draws a dress. Inside she writes a stylized version of the words school, achieve, study and socializing. The Grade 8 student at R.L.

As world oil prices continue to tumble, consumers in Sudbury are seeing the benefit at the pump. Prices went under $1.00 a litre in Greater Sudbury -- reaching as low as $0.989 at some locations in the city – after soaring as high as $1.479 in June.

Residents are invited to an introduction of Mayor Brian Bigger's From the Ground Up–2025 10-year economic development strategic plan. An information session takes place Dec. 18 at 11 a.m. in committee room C-11 at Tom Davies Square.

According to Canada's Elections Act, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not obliged to call a byelection to replace outgoing MP Glenn Thibeault before the Oct. 19 federal election.

Stack Brewing will unveil Dec. 18 its replacement for Angry Moose and Friendly Moose.

Greater Sudbury will soon have a new LCBO store. The store, located at 1099 Marcus Dr., in the Silver Hills development, is set to open at 10 a.m. Dec. 19.