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By JUDI KOSKI Serving piping hot, freshly roasted coffee is nothing new at the Old Rock Roastery on Minto Street. But serving it in their new biodegradable cup called the “ecotainer” is.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Hospital officials are asking the region’s health-care funding agency for more money to implement medium-term solutions to a crisis which they say is “crippling Sudbury Regional Hospital’s ability to admit and treat patients.

BY BILL BRADLEY Liberal MP Diane Marleau made a pitch to the media this week for one of the federal Liberal party's key election planks - the Green Shift Plan.

Staff and students in Rainbow Schools will wear pink on Thursday, September 11th, 2008, as Rainbow District School Board marks its first ever “Stand Up Against Bullying Day.

BY BILL BRADLEY In all but name, Glenn Thibeault is the nominee for the New Democrats in the Sudbury riding.

Two Rainbow Schools are among the top 25 schools in Canada. Valley View Public School and Jessie Hamilton Public School are featured in the annual survey of Canada’s stellar schools in the September 2008 issue of Today’s Parent magazine.

The Sudbury and District Chamber of Commerce will host all candidates' events for both the Sudbury and Nickel Belt ridings.

BY JANET GIBSON Some Sudbury tenants who’ve been given 60 days notice by their landlord to move out won’t have to go if they haven’t found replacement accommodation.

BY JANET GIBSON For six months they met two days a week and in the year that followed, a half-day a week to discuss the intricacies of a new building on the campus of Laurentian University. Last week, Dr. John Lundy, Dr.

BY BILL BRADLEY All federal candidates are out on the hustings for the votes of city residents in Sudbury and Nickel Belt ridings. The election, scheduled for Tuesday Oct.