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Leonard (Len) Favelle – December 6, 1938 – May 2, 2012
It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of Leonard Walter Favelle, age 73, at Princess Court in Dryden, ON, on May 2, 2012. Leonard was born December 6, 1938 at Dryden Hospital to [...]
Military tribute mural a moving spectacle
A powerful mixture of loss, pride and patriotic sentiment flowed through like electricity through crowd of over 200 as artist Dave Sopha and Machin Mayor Gord Dingman dropped the curtain. Area legion members came to [...]
Pilot lands plane on McIntosh Rd.
Ontario Provincial Police Press Release (DRYDEN, ON) –On October 2, 2011 members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Dryden Detachment officers received a report of a 1975 Cessna 152M, 8 miles North of Vermilion Bay in [...]
Fallen soldiers immortalized in Kin Canada project
Vermilion Bay’s Fort Vermilion will play host to a poignant tribute to Canada’s fallen soldiers in the Afghanistan conflict, Thursday, Sept. 29. For just two hours — from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. — area residents [...]
A look under the hood of ‘The Batmobile’
In the old days, they called it ‘cabin fever’. A certain spark of genius, bordering on insanity that spurs men to expand the realm of what is possible in the dead of winter. Gripped tightly in [...]
Vermilion Bay’s Village Corner lost to blaze
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a large structure fire that destroyed a thriving Vermilion Bay business Sept. 6. Machin Fire Service was dispatched shortly after a 911 call alerted officials to a [...]
Lillian Berg student serves as Legislative Page
By Sarah Madussi Grade 8 student Zachery Lang got the experience of a lifetime, serving as a Legislative Page at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Toronto for three weeks in April. One of his teachers [...]
Busters BBQ expanding into western Canada
Busters Barbeque made a very special announcement on June 2. The Vermilion Bay business has signed a contract with distributing company Mariner Neptune to start distributing their famous barbeque sauce from Thunder Bay to Canada’s west [...]
Hwy 17 closed between Vermilion Bay and Kenora
West bound traffic from Dryden heading to Kenora is being re-routed down Hwy 502 due to an accident near Dixie Lake involving a transport and a passenger vehicle. Police will advise when the highway is expected [...]
"Science to the government is just an expensive luxary." Putting my final touches on my story regarding the closure of ELA @DrydenObserver4 days ago from web
RT @LindseyEnns: Heading over to the Dryden Police Station on King Street to celebrate OPP week! See you there! @DrydenObserver6 days ago from Twitter for iPhone
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