Local News

Mattawa town council meets tonight, and one of the items on the agenda is expected to be the agreement with TransCanada Pipeline to accept $30,000 toward the purchase of a rescue truck for the fire department.

For the public’s safety please be advised that Marathon Beach Playground, by King's Landing, will be closed to the public for use Monday July 14th and Tuesday July 15th during the take-down of the beach volleyball courts.

There is now a bounty of the heads of illegal gill-netters prowling the waters of Lake Nipissing. It comes from a Nipissing First Nation member Bob Goulais.

Watersun is the "Garden of the Week". From left to right Dick & Rhea ONeill, Jo Hill, Geri Openshaw, Lynda Moore, Sue Beauchamp, Robert Whitford. Submitted photos . See Gallery below.

Early yesterday, around 3:50 a.m., a sharp-eyed witness called police about a man who had been seen breaking into a home on First Avenue West. The thief was seen escaping with a TV and an XBox.

Randy McLaren, Mayor of Bonfield and Chairman of the Canadian Ecology Centre, MP Jay Aspin, CEC GM Bill Steer. Submitted photo. Well, at least they'll be easier to see in Mattawa! A regional observato ry will be built in the Town of Mattawa .

View of centre court action at the North Bay waterfront on Saturday. PHOTO by: Jazz Mathon Canada’s first ever NORCECA beach volleyball stop was undoubtedly a “smash” with the competitors.

A competitor negotiates her second turn during a barrel riding heat in Bonfield on Saturday. PHOTO by: Jazz Mathon It’s a short race with fast turns and no room for error. Barrel racing is back in Bonfield for the second time in three years.

Ghost gill nets in the back of a Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry truck. Photo by Trevor Thomas. The MNRF, under intense public pressure, now appears ready to act against illegal gill netters on Lake Nipissing.

Sales of wristbands for Mattawa Voyageur Days are going "a little slower" this year according to organizer Jacques Begin, but he adds they are selling steadily and he is "quite pleased with the sales and the lineup".