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BY JASON THOMPSON City staff is proposing cuts to municipal snow removal service to keep this year’s property tax increase as low as possible. The cuts are designed to save the city about $3 million.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Moving the Laurentian Association of Mature and Part-Time Students (LAMPS) association office from the “bowling alley” area in the school’s classroom building to the second floor of the Parker Building would be bad for students, sa

BY MAREK KRASUSKI On Feb. 1, the international hotel chain Marriott opened its doors at the newly built facility on Palm Dairy Rd. near The Kingsway and Barrydowne.

Northern Life reporter Heidi Ulrichsen spoke with social activist Gary Kinsman recently.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN A young man from Capreol returned home safely last week after completing a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. Pte. B.J.

The government of Ontario is investing $3,724,000 toward the transfer of mental health programs from the Northeast Mental Health Centre (NEMHC) to Sudbury Regional Hospital to help mental health patients get the care they need closer to home.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN John Filo seemed genuinely amazed by the attention Saturday night as 100 community members gathered in Sudbury's Steelworkers' Hall to honour his contribution to the city. “I'm not sure I'm really being honoured.

People can support the Ontario March of Dimes tomorrow at Rocky's on Lake Wahnapitae by attending the second annual Edith Casaletto Memorial Pond Hockey tournament. Rocky's all season tourism lodge is located on Loonway Rd.

Three College Boreal students are the winners of a National Film Board of Canada contest. Julie Ferron, Micheline Schiller and Lydia Ferron won the Anime ton univers francophone 2007 contest.

BY KEITH LACEY The local business community has rallied to restore a non-profit agency that worked with some of this community's poorest and most downtrodden members.