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The first order of business for the Alva City Council meeting Monday was the appointment of Wanda Gail Swallow to fill the vacant Ward 2 seat.

Dell Technologies To overcome a pandemic like COVID-19, even the smartest scientists won’t win the battle alone. We need a global village of scientists working in parallel and sharing their learnings to uncover the mysteries of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, which causes the disease, and to help discover treatments or cures to help end the pandemic. This same spirit of shared purpose underlies the Folding@home distributed computing project. This project brings together a global village of computer users who lend their idle processing power to scientists who require massive amounts of ...

Algoma District School Board will offer a virtual workshop series for parents this spring. The series, organized by the board’s Parent Involvement Committee, will present four workshops on a variety of topics. It will kick off on Tuesday, April 27 with an overview of Edsby, the parent communication tool used by ADSB. Marty Stilin, ADSB’s officer of privacy, planning and data management, and Michael Poluk, the board’s technology and data co-ordinator, will present the session, meant to help parents understand how to navigate Edsby and its features. The second session, on Wednesday, Ma...

SHARE ON: Noah Dugas' player card in EA Sports' NHL 21. (Photo supplied by Jason Sullivan) Noah Dugas, a North Bay Trapper who passed away in the fall, is now playable in the NHL 21 video game.  A handful of “Hockey Ultimate Team” cards have been made available to friends and family of Dugas, allowing the 13-year-old to play alongside the NHL stars he looked up to.  “I thought it was a great idea, especially with all his teammates and cousins, they play all those games,” said Glen Gravelle, Dugas’ uncle.  Gravelle and friend Jason Sullivan brought the idea of honouring Dugas to ...

Local snowmobilers frustrated and worried with “inconsistencies” from Health Unit SHARE ON: Photo credit: www.pexels.com Parry Sound snowmobilers are frustrated and worried about the local Health Unit’s closure of the region’s trails. Barrie Wilkinson, President of Parry Sound Snowmobile District 10, tells MyParrySoundNow; “It is frustrating because we have so few cases, and case numbers are looking good compared to provincial ones,”  “We see ourselves (Snowmobilers) as a fairly outdoor activity, and we are definitely frustrated by the fact that we are not able to get out ther...