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While he thinks people are generally in favour of a new arena for the city, one councillor says he would have liked to hear from more of the public.

Turnout was light on Monday night, but there were plenty of questions about the future of education in the city as public and Catholic school board trustee candidates had their first opportunity to dialogue with voters since the campaign began.

OPP divers have now recovered the body of a man who fell out of a canoe in a lake at Quetico Park last Thursday. The body of 65-year-old Darrell Cellars, of Duluth, Minn., was found on Saturday.

After a lazy summer, Andrew Wingfield was ready to get back to classes as another school year began Monday at Lakehead University.

Police have busted another marijuana grow-op in an area rural community. Police officers with the Joint Forces Drug Unit made the bust last Wednesday at a property just off of Highway 588.

The city finalized its list of candidates for the upcoming municipal election Monday, and outside city hall residents began mulling over the issues most important to them.

The public will get its first chance to interact with candidates for the upcoming municiapal election at a series of open forums being staged by the Thunder Bay District Labour Council this week.

A Cat Lake man died after being arrested Thursday, and officers with the OPP are now investigating.

Maria Bilyk is a good listener. The 83-year-old-grandmother spent a good portion of her life as a volunteer with the Auxiliary to St. Joseph’s Care Group. She joined the Auxiliary in 1949 but began volunteering a year later.

Police say they killed a bear that wandered into a residence backyard on Saturday. Thunder Bay Police Service received a call about a bear that wandered into a Ridgeway Street East residence around 7 p.m.