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If you pay the piper, do you get to pick the tunes? That was the question debated, sometimes loudly, Wednesday at a public information session on the work the Sudbury Soils Study is doing. Inco Ltd. and Falconbridge Ltd. are funding the $4.

This past weekend, the Greater Sudbury Police Service continued its Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) spot checks on roadways across the City of Greater Sudbury.

Big Sisters of Sudbury will hold a dunk tank event to raise funds for the United Way/Centraide campaign this Saturday (Aug. 10).

Margaret (Peg) Roberts died last week in Toronto. Although she spent her final few years in Toronto, she was a long-time resident of Sudbury, and a pioneer in the development of theatre in the city.

Enrolment numbers are up sharply at SudburyÂ?s three post-secondary institutes. Enrolment has increased dramatically at Laurentian University and Cambrian College and is up only very slightly at College Boreal.

Snowmobiler, 28, killed in accident Jason Bellefeuille, 28, a father of two, was killed Sunday while snowmobiling on Onwatin Lake in Hanmer.

Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci has launched a bumper sticker campaign to spread his message about the need to widen Highway 69. The bumper sticker looks like a licence plate and reads 4-Lane 69.

Installation of the Paris Street trunk water main between Walford Road and Regent Street at Long Lake Road will take place throughout the summer, starting Monday, June 16. The joke is there are two seasons in Sudbury: winter and road construction.

City residents may be counting drilling noises instead of sheep to get to sleep in the next few weeks.

While the Norwalk Virus continues to cause havoc in the southern part of the province, the Greater City of Sudbury hasn?t had any outbreaks yet.