Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Council Approves Additional Cash for the Library

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The Kenora Public Library will receive an extra 98 thousand dollars this year to help cover off a projected deficit. But city council isn...

Hampton Touts NDP Platform

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The MPP for Kenora-Rainy River says its time to put an end to damaging McGuinty policies. Howard Hampton is about to embark on a tour of th...

KDSB to lease new Defibrilators

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The Kenora District Services Board has agreed to enter into a lease agreement to purchase 23-defibrillators for ambulances across the Distri...

Village Corner Site in Vermillion Bay being Cleaned up

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The clean-up of the Village Corner fire site in Vermillion Bay is underway. Crews started demolition of the structure yesterday morning. A...

Kenora BIZ ready to Celebrate Summer

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A busy long weekend in Kenora. Canada Day festivities will be book-ended by a couple of special events under the big tent on the Kenora har...

OPP Summer Camp Taking place this week

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Ontario Provincial Police have kicked off their annual youth summer camp in northwestern Ontario. Forty young people aged 11 and 12 from ac...

Residents Evacuated from New Osnaburgh prepare to return home

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About 500 residents of the New Osnaburgh First Nation could return home as early as Friday, if the air quality continues to improve. They w...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

KMTS Warns of Internet Scam

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KMTS is warning of a scam that has been going around to some of its clients. An e-mail notification has been sent out telling account holde...

Children's Aid Merge to Proceed on July 1st

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The long talked about merger between two child care agencies in northwestern Ontario should be complete later this week. Kenora-Patricia Ch...

Province Cuts Funding for Forest Access Roads

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The provincial government is cutting the amount of money available to build and maintain forest access roads in northern Ontario. The Ontar...

Council holds special meeting this afternoon

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Kenora City Council will be meeting once more before Canada Day. A special meeting is scheduled to take place this afternoon in council cha...

Union Gas Rates Going Up

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Its going to cost a bit more to heat your home with natural gas. Union Gas says the Ontario Energy Board has approved a 5 percent rate incr...

Funding for local child care groups announced

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The Kenora District Services Board has approved funding under the National Child Benefit program. A number of groups in the region will be ...

Rain temporarily Halts Growth of Pickle Lake Wildfire

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Some 278 firefighters continue to battle a large forest fire burning outside New Osnaburgh First Nation. The fire is now nearly 66-thousand...
Monday, June 27, 2011

A record year for the Community Foundation

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Its been a good year for the Kenora and Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation. The Foundation held its annual spring granting cer...

25 Local Groups receive funding from Community Foundation

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Triple Play, the Kenora Public Library and the Town of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls were some of the big winners in the annual granting ceremo...

Mail expected to begin moving again this week

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The head of the postal workers' union says its members will obey a back-to-work order to end the lockout at Canada Post. CUPW's Den...

Cancer Care Northwest Releases new plan

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Cancer Care Northwest is embarking on a four year cancer plan for the region. Vice President Michael Power says it will include a new integ...

Pickle Lake Fire Continues to Grow

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Fire crews are working round-the-clock to stop a raging wildfire from reaching New Osnaburgh First Nation. The fire is blazing out-of-contr...

Con. College Gets More Funding

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The Provincial Government is stoking Confederation College's fires with a 4.2 million dollar funding announcement. The money is going t...