Local News

Morry Brown has been named general manager of NetCentral.

Franco Mariotti, a Science North biologist, was part of the first crew to go to the African tropical forest of Gombe National Park to scout locations for the Imax film, Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees .

Laurentian University president Hermann Falter, and Paul Colilli, director of the school of graduate studies and research, hosted a reception Monday to honour students who were recently awarded 2002 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council o

By Rick Pusiak A manager at Cecil Facer youth detention facility fraternized with OPSEU pickets last week after he had been drinking.

By Ben Rowe The national broadcast of tonight's Juno Awards, honouring the best in Canadian music, will have a local twist. Two members of Canadian rockers Sloan appeared at Northeastern Secondary School in Garson March 21.

Seven Sudbury representatives are participating in a trade mission to Atlanta, Georgia. Brown?s Concrete, Cambrian College, Grandmother?s Pie Shoppe Inc., Knowledge Control Corp., Lumière International Corp., Neureka Research Corp.

?Sisters Step Up? in a show of support on the OPSEU picket line. Irene Harris, executive vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, will join striking workers in Sudbury on Thursday.

Lockery Composite School is getting a visit from Secretary of State, Andy Mitchell. Mitchell is expected to make an annoucment concerning federal funds to support the Laptop Learning Program at Lockerby.

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum?s (CIM) annual general membership meeting will take place Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 pm in the Science North Cavern.

By Keith Lacey Two Norwegian union leaders received a hero's welcome Monday for their support of the workers on strike last year at Falconbridge Ltd.