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A Grade 10 student at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School has won a first-place prize in the Braille Creative Writing Contest sponsored by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

Advocates on either side of Greater Sudbury’s store hours debate are already sparring, with the chamber accusing one city councillor of “fear mongering.

Students at Copper Cliff Public School recently presented a cheque for a little more than $1,000 to the Pennies For Pediatrics campaign at Health Sciences North.

Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle chided the Conservatives Oct. 29 for what he says is the “toothless enforcement” of the Westray Bill.

It’s time to punish municipal councils who hold illegal closed-door meetings, Ontario Ombudsman André Marin said during a province-wide press conference Oct. 30.

A school bus struck a house near the Madeleine Avenue and Lasalle Boulevard intersection shortly before 4 p.m. today.

A school bus struck a house near the Madeleine Avenue and Lasalle Boulevard intersection shortly before 4 p.m. today.

Hurricane Sandy's impact on Sudbury was more bark than bite, it would seem, as the city emerged relatively unscathed from the intense winds, rain and snow.

When Marguerite and Gerry Lougheed moved to Sudbury in 1952, they had very little, save a dream. Sixty years later, the funeral home and flower shop they started has been transformed into one of the city's most successful enterprises.