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My Job Board is a place where employers and job seekers can connect! My Job Board is a free online service provided by mysudbury.ca, where employers can post job vacancies and review resumés, while job seekers can post their resumés and respond to opportunities. Register today! It's easy and completely free of charge!

Outdoor Burning Bylaws
Learn all you need to know about open air burning bylaws in the City of Greater Sudbury! Find plenty of information on burn permits, brush fires, campfires, barrel fires, chiminea fires, and much more.

Municipal Elections 2010
The Municipal Elections 2010 website will provide you with all the information you need on the upcoming October 25 election. Find details on municipal and trustee candidates, previous results, frequently asked questions and more!

Outdoor Watering
Watering restrictions are in effect until the end of September. If your address ends in an odd number, you are permitted to water on odd dates of the month. If your address ends in an even number, you are permitted to water on even dates of the month.

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Capreol Days
Capreol Days 2010 takes place from July 30 to August 2 at various locations in Capreol. This exciting festival offers something for everyone! The event features Guitar Fest, hovercraft rides, a Hawaiian luau, airplane and railroad museum displays, and much more!

Freedom Rally
The annual Freedom rally in support of various children’s charities will be held July 30th to August 2 at the Mine Mill Campground on Highway 69 South. The event features three nights of camping, motorcycle rides, dances and much more.

Music on the Grass
2010 Music on the Grass, presented by the Estaire-Wanup Fire Department, is August 14 at 300 Elbow Lake Rd. in Estaire. The event runs from noon until dark and features many performers including Bend of Elbow, Cynthia Forster and Elizabeth Hall, and Dan Lalonde. Tickets are $20 and children under 10 enter free of charge.

Submissions for 2010 Card Campaign
The Art of Dessert is calling for submissions from local artists for the 2010 Christmas/Holiday Card Campaign. All submissions must be unique works of art and must be festive or seasonal in nature. Only 13 pieces will be selected. Deadline for entries is September 1.

Four people face charges after a drug bust in New Sudbury Wednesday turned up a variety of drugs, two firearms and a large amount of cash. Greater Sudbury Police say members of the Joint Forces Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant at an Emily Street residence about 9:55 p.m.[...]

Man facing numerous charges after two utility poles struck Wednesday night

A 47-year-old man is headed to an appearance in bail court Thursday after two utility poles were struck on Leslie Street Wednesday night.[...]

Super hacker makes ATMs spit cash

LAS VEGAS - A security expert showed off techniques for breaking into ATMs, causing machines to spit out cash to a cheering crowd at an annual gathering of hackers.[...]

Canadians, food industry urged to cut back on salt

OTTAWA - A government-backed group is recommending restaurants and food companies cut the salt in their recipes, but won't make the industry meet their suggested targets.[...]

Police find outdoor marijuana grow-op worth $3.5-M

Ontario Provincial Police say they seized $3.5-million worth of marijuana at an outdoor grow-op in Englehart. Members of the OPP drug enforcement unit, emergency response team and canine unit executed a warrant last week at a Savard Township property.[...]

North Bay area faced 7 forest fires this week

North Bay faced seven forest fires Tuesday in the Lake Temagami and Lady Evelyn Smoothwater Provincial Park areas. This brought the total of fires in the East Fire Region to 11, says the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.[...]

Two headstones found partly submerged in pond

Pieces of two large headstones were retrieved today from a pond near Pinewood Park Drive. The date of death on one is 1968 and the other is 1956. The headstones have been taken to city yards.[...]

Suspected Nazi charged in over 430,000 deaths

BERLIN - Prosecutors in Germany have charged a suspected Nazi camp guard with helping to kill 430,000 Jews in the Holocaust and personally shooting 10 others.[...]

French mother confesses to killing eight babies

LILLE, France - A 47-year-old woman has confessed to suffocating her eight new-born children and hiding their bodies in a village in northern France, the public prosecutor said on Thursday.[...]

Cuban nightmare ending for teen

CAMAGUEY, Cuba — Cody LeCompte's tropical island nightmare is finally coming to an end. The Simcoe teen - who is set to attend Sault College in Sault Ste.[...]

No one should die alone: hospice

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Hot Wheels tour at Dynamic Earth

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Child pornographer released

A former Schumacher man now living in Greater Sudbury has a history of making and possessing child pornography and remains a high risk to repeat "violent and sexual" crimes against children, according to the National Parole Board.[...]

No more layoffs on the horizon

The 18 Greater Sudbury operations employees laid off by Vale on Monday is all that's coming, not part of 150 in total layoffs coming down the pipe, says the manager of corporate affairs of Vale's Ontario operations.[...]

Dangerous Highway 69 curve realigned

Sudbury residents are safe when they travel now that a murderous stretch of road near Killarney has been realigned. The treacherous S bend has claimed the lives of many. After the brutal accident that killed Kelly Ann Henderson and her 12 year-old sons, Corbin and Jordin Sauve, on Aug.[...]

Science North renewal continues

Science North this week introduced two new attractions -- Legends of the Great Lakes and Between the Stars. The new object theatres will explore the Great Lakes and dark matter, and are among the many projects that are part of the ongoing renewal of the science centre.[...]

Mayoral hopeful appeals to youth, arts

Calling the race for the mayoralty "wide open," rookie candidate Derek Young launched himself into municipal politics yesterday.[...]

Busy day for area firefighters

A section of Highway 144 was closed for a short time on Wednesday because of a forest fire. The area 51 kilometres south of Highway 560 was shut down, Ontario Provincial Police said in a release. The blaze was one of four wildfires in the Sudbury district Tuesday.[...]

Local News Briefs

SAVE WATER TODAY Upgrades to municipal groundwater wells serving Garson may result in discoloured water and/or low water pressure from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday. Two of three Garson wells will be taken offline during construction, the City of Greater Sudbury said in a release.[...]

Local Police Briefs

BUSINESS SLAPPED WITH $160,000 FINE A Sudbury-area business couple that declared a half-million dollars worth of personal purchases such as a Sea-doo, home renovations and a party barge as a business expense, were slapped a $160,000 fine in Sudbury court Wednesday for tax evasion.[...]

Essar Steel expects Steelworkers to strike

The Essar Steel Algoma contract expiration countdown clock with United Steelworkers Local 2724 is at three days, the current deal expiring at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, and the two parties appear on a collision course.[...]

Man stole from dad, then threatened him

Ryan Carlson was sent to jail for 32 days Wednesday for stealing from, and assaulting, his father. Whether he remains in jail at the end of that time will depend on what Ontario Court Justice Randall Lalande decides will be Carlson's sentence on the charges.[...]

Beware the perils of Facebook pages

Like many other people, I got on the Facebook train. Signed up, added photos and ways to get ahold of me. I soon started looking and adding people that I knew in my life, and people found me and started to add me to their account.[...]

Mayor hasn't spent money wisely

Re: Mayor hasn't changed position, letter by Mayor John Rodriguez -- July 23.[...]

Mills masterful in Jays debut

Few pitchers have been handed a better opportunity to notch their first Major League win than Brad Mills and he did not waste it, delivering a masterful two-hit effort in the Toronto Blue Jays' 5-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.[...]

Another force to investigate officer shoving woman

The Vancouver Police Department has called in an outside force to investigate after one of its members pushed a disabled woman to the ground in the city's impoverished downtown east side.[...]

Six-week-old baby dies after baptism in Romania

A six-week-old baby died in Romania last week after he was dunked underwater in a baptism. The boy's relatives told the United Kingdom Press Association he was drowned during the ceremony July 22 near Moldova, located in the northeast corner of Romania.[...]

All passengers dead in crash

A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, officials said, in the worst aviation accident in Pakistan's history.[...]

Rogers launches Chatr

Rogers Communications formally launched its no-frills Chatr brand on Wednesday, seeking to take the steam out of new entrants to the market and setting in motion a potential legal challenge from rival Mobilicity.[...]

Wamsley the new goalie coach for Senators

Rick Wamsley isn't ready to anoint Pascal Leclaire the Senators' No. 1 goalie heading into training camp. "I haven't been there long enough," the club's new goalie coach said with a laugh during a conference call on Wednesday.[...]

Argos and Als to clash tonight

After winning only three games last season, few people predicted that the Toronto Argonauts would find themselves on an even playing field with the Montreal Alouettes a month into this season. Tonight, the two teams will battle it out for top spot in the CFL's eastern division.[...]

Here's why WikiLeaks is wikiweak

The most damaging thing about the leaking of some 92,000 documents on the Afghanistan war, seems not to be the content so much as who did the leaking.[...]

Independent oversight important for RCMP

Cops can police civilians, but can civilians police the cops? That's a hot question around Ottawa these days as complaints about William Elliott, the man who oversees the RCMP, surface.[...]

Photographer dies in photo-shoot shooting

An Italian wedding photographer died Saturday after he asked a bride and groom to pose with guns in a photo shoot before their wedding and a .22 calibre rifle accidentally fired a shot into his head, the Telegraphnewspaper reported.[...]

Hann's on approach

Norm Hann has had a busy summer since The Star caught up with him after his 385-kilometre stand-up paddleboard journey in late spring.[...]

Timmins athlete commits to Laurentian swim team

Laurentian Voyageurs swim team head coach Phil Parker and the Swimming program at Laurentian University announced Timmins native Nicholas Lapointe will join the Blue and Gold for the 2010-11 season. Lapointe has been swimming competitively since the age of six.[...]

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