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North Bay Police News Release ******************** On the 17th of May at approximately 10:45 PM a 14-year-old girl was walking through the schoolyard of Silver Birches on Marshall Av. At this time she noticed someone following her.

North Bay Police News Release ******************** On the 18th of May shortly after 9 PM Csts. Peter Brunette and Larry Asselin of the North Bay Police Service attended an apartment in the 400 block of Chippewa St. W.

Rita Patry, President of the 422 Wing The management committee of the 2006 Cogeco North Bay Heritage Festival announced the Saturday night headline act today During the festival information update at Cementation on Graham Drive.

Media Release ***************************** Please be advised that we are taking the Birches Road Reservoir out of service for about two weeks for needed repairs.

A planned sod turning ceremony for the new North Bay Water Treatment Plant is scheduled for Friday to officially kick-off the construction of the city’s new Water Treatment Plant.

Please be advised that the city has extended the closure of Main Street West at Nipissing Street to Friday afternoon May 19th, 2006. The closure is due to replacing the watermain on Nipissing Street that is currently out of service.

OPP are reminding motorists that they will be enforcing the rules of the road this coming May long weekend.

Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre has received $11,381 dollars in funding from the McGuinty Government to help women in Nipissing who are survivors of sexual assault.

The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit will receive funding from the province to support enforcement on the new Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy.

On Friday May 12, 2006 a boiler exploded in this house on Quae Quae Road in Corbeil blowing the roof clear off the house and subsequently fire gutted the house. We thank Beth a loyal BayToday reader for the story.