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An almost two-month ordeal has ended for North Bay Olympian Alison Herst, and she will be home with her adopted daughter Zoe Wednesday. Herst has been in Port-au-Prince, Haiti since Oct.

Hec Lavigne says no, Al McDonald says maybe, possibly and, reading between the lines, likely. The ex-politicians have both been encouraged to seek the federal Liberal nomination for the Nipissing-Timiskaming riding, they tell baytoday.ca.

North Bay OPP want to warn people that the ice on area lakes and rivers is not safe yet. On Sunday Nov. 14, 2003 at approximately 2:00 p.m.

Ottawa, Ont.—Corbeil or Callander? Loeb or Steinberg? In the end we made the wrong choices, and the Pan Dimensional Beings left Ottawa without the $10,000 first prize in a hotshot trivia match.

Jane McMaster says her friend Kathy Sirrs inspires her. McMaster, above left, and Sirrs, above right, were in the Dreamcoat Fantasy Theatre’s production of The Music Man, which ended a four-day run Saturday.

The Ontario Natural Resources Ministry continues its Moose Watch anti-poaching program for a little while longer.

Nipissing MP Bob Wood says federal boundary changes have cut the Nipissing First Nation in half.

Hugh McLachlan wants democracy brought back to the grassroots level. McLachlan, a North Bay lawyer, has official announced he’ll be seeking the federal Liberal nomination for the Nipissing-Timiskaming riding.

As baytoday.ca first told you last week, North Bay lawyer Hugh McLachlan has become the latest entrant in the race to succeed Nipissing MP Bob Wood.

Smoke-free by-laws in North Bay, East Ferris and West Nipissing go into effect at the end of the year.