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In preparation for the coming winter, the City of Greater Sudbury is reminding motorists there is no parking on any roadway, highway, laneway or side street between the hours of midnight and 7 am, starting Saturday, Dec. 1.

BY TRACEY DUGUAY The city’s draft 2008 budget is translating into a 4.7 percent tax increase, which means about an extra $93 on the property tax bill of a ratepayer with a home assessed at $120,000. The increase in city taxes in 2007 was 4.2 percent.

BY LAUREL MYERS Three mothers on the maternity ward at the Sudbury Regional Hospital claimed to have been visited by Brenda Batisse Nov.

BY WENDY BIRD It was a bit of a surprise to the publisher, but no one at Malcolm Lester Books expected the 1999 book about Judy Feld Carr, a former Sudburian who risked her life to save thousands of Syrian Jews, to sell out.

BY LAUREL MYERS Cambrian College's Sustainable Energy Centre's received a big boost from a community partner Tuesday morning as Xstrata Nickel announced it would be investing $2 million into the project.

Update - The eastbound lanes on Elm St. are now open to traffic. The eastbound lanes of Elm St. between Lisgar and Paris Streets are temporarily closed in order to facilitate repairs to a hydro pole. The pole was struck by a vehicle this morning.

Meagan McGrath, the 30 year old Sudbury native and mountain climber who successfully completed one version of the Seven Summits, is set to climb the Carstensz Pyramid located in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Theatre Cambrian has received a $12,700 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) to assist with the purchase of theatrical lighting equipment for their ever-popular dinner-theatre series.

The Honourable James Bartleman will be visiting Laurentian University on Nov. 27 to be officially welcomed as the university's first visiting fellow in native leadership.

BY LAUREL MYERS The 29-year-old Kirkland Lake woman charged with abducting a baby from the Sudbury Regional Hospital earlier this month was released from police custody following a review of her bail hearing last week.