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BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] The Sudbury Regional Palliative Care Association (SRPCA) and their volunteers helps people with terminal illnesses and their families cope through extremely difficult and trying times.

Greater Sudbury is the only city in Ontario where residents can?t buy booze at LCBO stores on Civic Holiday.

The average residential price for a home in Sudbury during the month of September 2002 was $109,697 as compared to $104,391 during the same month last year.

BY MICHAEL JAMES In a little more than three months, the phenomenon known as the double cohort will become a reality and Cambrian College is doing its utmost to make sure it?s ready.

Workers hit the picket line early Sunday morning after contract negotiations between Falconbridge Limited and the Sudbury Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union Local 598 (CAW) reached an impasse.

BY CRAIG GILBERT [email protected] Hoping they bought a better level of service, Sudbury city council opted to double their spending on the operation of the downtown transit centreÂ?s customer service kiosk to almost $100,000.

Members of the public are invited to respond to a plan regarding the Northern Ontario Medical School (NOMS). Judith Woodsworth The NOMS board of directors has developed its vision of Canada's first 21st century medical school.

Following in the footsteps of her heroes like Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, a 43-year-old woman suffering from Multiple Sclerosis will stop in Sudbury as part of her eight-month journey walking across Canada.

The annual Vimy Ridge church parade will take place on Sunday, April 18. The parade, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 76 in Minnow Lake, memorializes the victorious battle of Vimy Ridge when Canada became a nation.

Asian Long Horn Beetles are a huge problem in Toronto, Chicago and New York, but according to a Science North expert, they aren?t yet a problem in Greater Sudbury.