Local News

BY LAUREL MYERS The Greater Sudbury Police Service is continuing to pay tribute to fallen officers from their service by naming area bridges in their honour.

BY BILL BRADLEY Local artist and educator Will Morin is running for the First Peoples Party of Canada in the Sudbury riding in the federal election. They ran five candidates in 2006 in various places across the country.

BY JANET GIBSON George Middleton was chair of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board when the board held its last meeting of the 2007/2008 school year on June 17.

BY BILL BRADLEY Don St. George, owner of Tropical Breeze tanning salon, and Doug Hepworth, owner of The Computer Nook, find co-operating on expenses makes their business ventures more viable.

BY BILL BRADLEY Seniors who own their own homes are being hit hard by skyrocketing expenses. City staff and Ward 8 Coun. Ted Callaghan were told the bad news at a city council budget consultation Monday afternoon at the Parkside Centre.

School councils in Greater Sudbury can now apply for the 2008/09 "Parents Reaching Out" provincial grants to help local parents be more actively engaged in their children’s education.

The newly-released $8 billion draft agreement between the McGuinty government and the Ontario Medical Association is a missed opportunity for change, according to NDP health critic France Gélinas.

Children and caregivers can learn more about irreversible dementia and its most common form, Alzheimer's disease, during a talk at For Seniors Only on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

BY BILL BRADLEY City taxpayers are being asked this Wednesday evening at the priorities committee of city council to ante up $10 million for the proposed school of architecture being planned for the downtown.

Clean Air Sudbury, a local environmental group, is encouraging all city residents to walk, cycle or take public transit to work or school Sept. 22, on World Car Free Day.