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BY SCOTT HADDOW The City of Greater Sudbury announced this morning Donald Donaldson has resumed his post as the city's fire chief. Donaldson had been on a paid leave of absence since May 2006.

Conservative Senator Hugh Segal will speak in Sudbury Thursday evening at a fundraiser for the Sudbury & Nickel Belt riding associations. Segal finished second to Joe Clark in the 1998 Progressive Conservative leadership election.

Laurentian University and Cambrian College have signed an articulation agreement to increase mining-related training and education possibilities in Northern Ontario.

The construction costs for phase two of the one-site hospital will likely ring in at around $95 million.

BY GIANNI UBRIACO It may have been a nice, sunny day in Sudbury this past Wednesday, but it turned out to be a disastrous day for The Trailsmen Rod and Gun Club when it was discovered vandals had trashed the clubhouse.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Former Sudbury East MPP Elie Martel is proud of his granddaughter, Sarah Hampton. She will work as a page in the legislature for the next five weeks alongside her parents, MPPs Shelley Martel and Howard Hampton.

BY STAN SUDOL The price of this strategic, silvery-white metal seems to be going as high as the nickel-containing ballistic missiles that defend North American air space.

Ron Arnold admits he didn’t know much about building houses in 1969 when he and his father, Oscar, built the first Dalron home in Hanmer. “Thank God I didn’t know much about it, I wouldn’t have got into it,” the reserved company president says.

After several days of beautiful, warm weather, Mother Nature struck back with bitterly cold winds once again Thursday, resulting in the City of Greater Sudbury issuing another extreme cold weather alert.

EllisDon, one of the province's larges construction firms, will start preliminary construction work on Greater Sudbury Hospital's one-site completion project starting Monday.