By Chris Marchand ‘Don’t stop there’ was the main message offered by over 40 members of the public who spilled out from city council chambers into the corridors, Monday, Jan. 14. The throng of [...]

By Chris Marchand Dryden City Councillors looked favourably upon a plan to move the city’s landline telephone services to a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system. City of Dryden IT Manager Roger Nesbitt presented [...]

Elementary school teachers went to work Friday morning after the Ontario Labour Board ruled that provincewide plans for a political protest involving a one-day walkout constituted an illegal job action. The ruling came in [...]

Dryden’s City Council is looking for significant spending reductions in the next draft of the 2013 budget, even if that means fewer employees on the payroll, says mayor Craig Nuttall. Residents are invited to [...]

Sioux Lookout’s Garnet Angeconeb was made a member of The Order Of Canada — the Government of Canada’s highest civilian honour, Dec. 31. It’s not Angeconeb’s first brush with prestigious honours over the past [...]

By Chris Marchand Dryden Mayor Craig Nuttall says city council is looking for a way to move forward with a plan to refurbish the lobby area of Dryden Memorial Arena. The project came before [...]

Dryden volunteer firefighter Jason Hatch is being commended for his quick and professional actions at the scene of a motor vehicle rollover on Hwy. 17, Dec. 27. Hatch was returning home from work in [...]

A 27 year-old Lethbridge, Alberta resident was apprehended by Kenora OPP, Dec. 30, a few hours after the man allegedly pepper-sprayed an employee of a Dryden gas station and made off with a tank [...]

A motor vehicle collision claimed the life of a former Dryden resident over the holidays. On Dec. 23, 32 year-old Blake Cheslock, who most recently lived in Thunder Bay, was killed in a collision [...]

By Lindsey Enns A small group of community members concerned with how the closure of the Experimental Lakes Area could affect freshwater research and water quality across the region toadvantage of the opportunity to [...]