Local News

The Minister of Labour for the province is urging Vale and the United Steelworkers to resume talks immediately, after meeting with the company and Locals 6200 and 6500 July 2.

Striking Local 6500 member Bernie Arseneau traces another striker, Jamie West, with sidewalk chalk outside Tom Davies Square on July 2.

When children attend Catholic schools, they get the benefit of not only learning the provincial curriculum, but also about their own spirituality, according to a Sudbury woman who was recently elected president of the Canadian Catholic School Trustee

École Ste-Marie in Azilda was recently awarded the Schools on the Move designation by the Ontario Ministry of Education.

It has been 18 months since Nickel Belt New Democrat MPP France Gélinas had her first private member's bill, which called for a ban of the sale of flavoured and individually wrapped cigarillos, passed into law. The law went into effect July 1.

For New Sudbury resident Richard Pancel, visiting family members in Hanmer requires him to go through "brutal" traffic at the Lasalle Boulevard and Notre Dame Avenue intersections.

Vale has issued a statement on its website, www.valeinconegotiations.

UPDATED — July 1, 7:15 p.m. Intersections along Paris Street went silent as the body of fallen Sudbury soldier Private Andrew Miller made its way through the city around 6 p.m. July 1.

UPDATED July 2 at 8:40 a.m. Vale says an incident involving a spill of oleum (fuming sulphuric acid) due to the overfilling of a rail car July 1 is currently under investigation.

Members of the two English-language school boards in the Sudbury area are planning to dip into reserves to balance their budgets for the 2010-11 school year.