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It may not have had an impressive fireworks show, or a tab for more than $50 billion, but the opening ceremony for the Red Oak Villa Olympics went without a hitch Friday morning.

On January 28, students from Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) schools won the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the North-Eastern Ontario Regional Elementary Cardboard Boat Race competition for elementary schools.

It was a smaller affair than last year, but according to organizers, the sixth annual Pond Hockey Festival on the Rocks, which happened over the weekend, was a great success.

Nominations are now open for the 14th Annual Champions for Children Awards Luncheon hosted by Our Children, Our Future.

Eric Caetano, a teacher and hockey referee in Greater Sudbury, launched the “Blowing the Whistle for Kid’s Care” campaign this past December that raised $1,000 for children’s care at Health Sciences North.

When the Guimond family went to the SilverCity Sudbury Cinemas Saturday they just expected to watch the new Lego Movie. When the movie ended, Make-A-Wish Canada surprised the family with a fully funded Disney Cruise.

She was a community leader, but most of all, she was a mother, wife, sister and grandmother. Family was more important than anything for Jean Hanson, and Saturday morning, her many friends and family gathered at St.

It's never too early to make end-of-life plans. That was the message at Sudbury's second end-of-life public forum at the Steelworkers Hall on Feb. 6.

If a group of local Stompin' Tom Connors fans has its way, downtown Sudbury will soon be home to a life-sized bronze statue of the famed Canadian country-folk singer, who passed away last March.

The North East Cancer Centre's Under/Never Screened pilot project has helped increase the number of screenings for breast and colorectal cancer in 21 Aboriginal communities, announced Health Sciences North on Thursday.