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More than a year after two murders and a firebombing that nearly took the life of a community elder, residents of Eabametoong First Nation have something positive to be proud about.

The mayor says the crowd was small but mainly positive at an afternoon pre-budget meeting.

Simon Frogg raised his family by hunting, trapping and fishing. Historically Wawakapewin First Nation, where Frogg is the band manager, served up to 300 people in the region north east of Pickle Lake with fish and game.

The Shelter House and the Dew Drop Inn are receiving a big boost in their supplies.

Whether or not Horizon Wind Inc. has submitted an application to build their proposed turbine farm in Thunder Bay is irrelevant, said an area MPP. On Monday, tbnewswatch.com obtained a letter from MPP Bill Mauro (Lib.

A joint review panel outlining plans for a proposed mine in the Marathon area kicked off a series of public open houses Monday evening.

A robbery of a Mac’s convenience store early Tuesday morning turned violent. Thunder Bay Police say at about 4 a.m. a man entered a Mac’s store on Syndicate Avenue, walked behind the counter and punched the lone employee in the store.

Mayor Keith Hobbs put the city’s top cop under the microscope after the police budget went more than $1 million in the red.

City council has decided to keep property tax ratios status quo. Councilors voted to revisit the report outlining a realignment of property tax ratios and tax rates in order to achieve fairer and better competition later.

Join us at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 for a live stream of the City of Thunder Bay’s 2011 budget public meetings. The meetings will broadcast live from the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium.