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BY CRAIG GILBERT [email protected] There will be no Festival of Trees this year. For the past several years, theatre production students from Cambrian College turned the science centre into a winter wonderland.

BY KEITH LACEY klacey@northernlife.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] Thanks to a new partnership agreement, mining students in Thunder Bay and Haileybury will soon be able to access education and training opportunities here in Greater Sudbury and vice versa.

Representatives of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4705 made a settlement proposal to Greater Sudbury Utilities negotiators yesterday.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Sudbury residents waiting for a long-term care bed won?t be sent out of the community for about 10 days surrounding the Christmas and New Year?s holidays.

Due to a watermain connection on Municipal Road 55 and Reserve Rd., Greater Sudbury officials are warning residents of Naughton and Whitefish that they should expect low pressure and discoloured water for 24 hours starting Oct. 25 at 9 pm.

Cambrian Students? Administrative Council President Tyler Charlebois is the 2005 recipient of the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO) Student Leadership Award.

The historic Bell Canada building at 93 Cedar St., has a new tenant. Canada Brokerlink is moving into the old Bell building, next to the old city hall on Cedar Street.

BY CRAIG GILBERT [email protected] Construction on what could be the most important downtown development in a generation is set to begin this month. REYNOLDS Salvadore Biasucci is building a $45-million, 153-lot subdivision off Mont Adam Street.

The following is the conclusion of a three-part series by Tracey Duguay on fire safety issues regarding wheelchair users.