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LYONS — At 5:15 p.m. Tuesday church bells will ring downtown, not for the upcoming Christmas holiday but for a more somber reason — the 100th anniversary of the Lyons Union School fire that killed two young girls and destroyed the school. It will be exactly 100 years to the time when a fast-moving blaze tore through the William Street building, trapping and killing 12-year-old Helen Baltzel and 13-year-old Elizabeth Burns. The fire ravaged the school building, causing $300,000 in dama...

Article content Working from home when your job is 3,000 kilometres away takes some ingenuity, but two scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada found a way to make it work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stephen Wolfe and Peter Morse are permafrost researchers who normally spend summers helicoptering around the Northwest Territories, collecting data from test sites scattered across the north. The duo, who both live in Chelsea, drill bore holes that measure soil temperatures 15 metres or mo...