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Rainbow District School Board is currently accepting registrations for summer school. To enroll in summer school, students must be repeating a credit and must have achieved a minimum mark of 35 per cent.

By rounding up their purchases to the a higher dollar amount, Sears customers helped support the Pre-Teen After School Program at O'Connor Park for two months.

Greater Sudbury and its contractors are preparing for a busy 2012 road construction season. This year’s capital budget for road and drainage improvements is close to $37 million, including an $8-million investment through the Federal Gas Tax Fund.

Do you have a child’s bike in safe working condition stored away in a shed or basement? Rainbow Routes Association is seeking donations of bicycles to be provided to children in need.

A ban on open-air burning has been declared for the City of Greater Sudbury. Greater Sudbury Fire Services has declared a ban effective immediately.

It may be more symbolic than anything, but Greater Sudbury Mayor Marianne Matichuk is freezing her salary for the duration of her term as mayor. City employees, including the mayor and council, receive an automatic wage increase each year.

Rikki Harper already has a good idea of what her future profession might be — she'd like to become a marine biologist.

Sudbury lags behind the rest of the province when it comes to literacy, Sudbury city councillors heard this week.

Due to high to extreme fire hazard and increased forest fire activity, a restricted fire zone order will be in effect for the Northeast Fire Region, including Sudbury, until such time as the order is revoked, according to the Ministry of Natural Reso

Eleven-year-old Ryan Patterson didn't have much to say about meeting five NHL stars May 15, but the grin on his face seemed to say it all. “It's cool,” the boy, who survived a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing's sarcoma, said.