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The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce (GSCC) has elected four new members to its board of directors. The new chair of the board is André Dumais, manager of corporate services at Bestech.

UPDATED — June 22, 10:51 a.m. Repairs to city roads, police services, public transit and fire services are but four of the many services paid for by the city residents through the annual payment of city taxes.

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have made two arrests June 18 in the former town of Haileybury in relation to the remains of Perry Reaume, 26, of Martin River, an OPP release said. His skull was found in the village of Thornloe in June 2008.

The most important thing for working men and women is to return safely home after a day's work.

Members from the the sixth annual Ramsey Lake Cycle Tour stopped by Tom Davies Square June 19 for a bite to eat after a 26 km ride around the lake. “I did it in about two hours,” Brent Byers said.

Prostate cancer afflicts one in six Canadian men. It is the leading cause of cancer related death in men, a release from the Northern Cancer Research Foundation said. “This form of cancer is not well known,” Anna Sampson said.

Despite a letter from Bonnie MacLellan, general superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph, stating the city was aware of the sale of the decommissioned hospital, at least three city councillors were in the dark about the deal.

Vale's vice-president of sustainability, Jennifer Hooper, has responded to Linda Diebel's June 6 Toronto Star article “Inside Sudbury's bitter Vale strike.” Hooper sent a letter to the editor to the newspaper, but it has not yet been published.

When the new harmonized sales tax (HST) replaces the goods and services tax and provincial sales tax on July 1, Ontario's First Nations will continue to be exempt.

UPDATED — June 18, 1:43 p.m. John Rodriguez, Mayor of the City of Greater Sudbury, has released a statement regarding the sale of the former St. Joseph's Health Centre. You can read it here in .pdf form . Original Story The Sisters of St.