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Grade 10 students at St. Patrick High School spent the past week sanding and sawing, building 10 baby cradles to donate to a worthy cause.

Stacks of sausages are piled high on the counter of Commissary Variety, a seemingly insignificant sight for a corner store deli. But this stack of meat that dwarfs a foot-tall pig statue at the deli counter is significant for co-owner Marie Penko.

Although they have a clown’s nose on, students at Hyde Park Public School are taking bullying seriously.

Coun. Paul Pugh says hate crimes are preventing Thunder Bay from building a city. Andy Hay, the deputy chief of police, says silence equals acceptance. Across the city, others said enough is enough.

City police say the victim of Wednesday's homicide was stabbed. Police were called to the scene at about 5:30 p.m., where they found an injured man on the sidewalk at the corner of May and Violet streets.

Tbaytel’s annual dividend cheque to the city will remain at $17 million. But a pair of municipal reserve funds won’t be topped up as they’ve been in years past. In 2011 the city-owned utility provided a combined $3.

The plan to turn a portion of Bay Street into an active living corridor has some area residents upset.

Some victims of last year’s flood are starting to receive money from the disaster relief committee. The cheques headed out this week to more than 450 residents who filed claims with the city following the May 28th floods.

It’s been said youth is wasted on the young. Not in the case of Andrew Faulkner and his classmates at Thunder Bay’s Pope John Paul II Elementary School.

With an oncologist for a mother, Jenna Simpson is always hearing about the dangers of tanning.