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Forty students from Lockerby Composite School will participate in a 30-hour famine on April 26-27.

A Markstay man received two years of probation and a $2,500 fine after he was sentenced on March 30 for failing to provide care, necessary for the general welfare of a horse.

New Democrat MPPs say the fight to keep Ontario Northland is just beginning. “Overall we have made an unfair Liberal budget a little more fair, but there’s more work to do,” Timmins-James Bay NDP MPP Gilles Bisson said in a press release.

Sometimes laughter is the best medicine. It's a theory a group of second-year public relations students from Cambrian College put to the test — and watched soar with flying colours — when they hosted Comedy for A Cause at the end of March.

Residents are being encouraged by the City of Greater Sudbury to show their community pride by participating in a two-hour Cleanup Blitz from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, May 5.

NDP health critic France Gélinas, MPP for Nickel Belt, said she is cautiously optimistic about additional funding secured by her party for small, rural and Northern hospitals.

Do you have old computers, telephones or televisions at home or work? If so, mark your calendar and plan to drop them off for recycling. Rainbow District School Board is teaming up with eCycle Solutions to help citizens recycle their e-waste.

On the outside, Stephanie Hurst looks like a normal 29-year-old woman. However, given the health problems she's been dealing with recently, she said she actually feels like someone much older.

A celebration of former NHL player Jerry Toppazzini's life will be held from 2-7 p.m. April 29 at the Beef n' Bird Restaurant on Lorne Street. Toppazzini, 81, was born in Copper Cliff. His hockey career started in St. Catharine's in 1948.

The mighty Thor loves attention. With four legs, a slobbery tongue, black and brown fur and a friendly nature, it wasn't long before Thor found a good home.