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George Saarinen sat in an armchair last week. It wasn’t until about ten minutes into the meeting he was attending that Saarinen realized what he’d done. “Usually I had to stuff myself into the chair,” he said.

Roy Coran passed away to the sounds of his big band. The 83-year-old local music legend died peacefully Friday evening in hospital with his family by his side and a recording of the Roy Coran Big Band in his ears.

Local competitors were dodging, ducking, dipping, diving and of course dodging again for charity on Saturday.

Confederation College technology students had the chance to catch a glimpse of their potential futures Friday. The engineering and environmental technician students held Design the Future, the third annual technology symposium Friday at the college.

Reports of its death were exaggerated, because the Slovak Legion is open for business. The Royal Canadian Legion Slovak Branch 129 on Atlantic Avenue has been fielding calls daily for about a month about the organization’s closure.

As debate begins about the banning of antibiotics in agricultural feed, some local farmers appear to be ahead of the discussion. The Ontario Medical Association released a report calling for a ban on antibiotics in agricultural feed.

Get ready to turn off the lights this weekend. Earth Hour will be held Saturday in 7,000 cities around the world in an effort to raise awareness about conserving energy and fighting climate change.

A representative of the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community welcomes the decision to make it illegal to discriminate against someone’s gender identity.

COCHRANE, Ont. -- A Quebec man is dead following a head on crash just outside of this Northeastern Ontario town. Cochrane detachment OPP officers responded to reports of the head-on crash just after 5:20 p.m. Thursday.

A missing Geraldton man has been found dead. OPP say the body of 32-year-old Erik Legarde, who had not been seen since Sunday morning, was located at about 11 a.m. on Thursday on a bush trail by their emergency response team.