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It will cost the average homeowner in Greater Sudbury the cost of a cup of coffee per week to pay their tax hike in 2012. The size of the cup depends on where you live.[...]

A Sudbury man has avoided going to jail by agreeing to move out of the family home. As a result, John Bellmore, 23, received a suspended sentence and 18 months probation for an attack on his parents last May.[...]

A Greater Sudbury man with a lengthy record dodged a jail term for a minor theft, thanks to a compassionate judge. “I met with a doctor and had some tests done,” Allan Beaucage, 54, told Ontario Court Justice Normand Glaude from the prisoner’s box.[...]

The summer concert season may be months away, but councillors are already fretting about the future of the newly rebuilt Grace Hartman Amphitheatre.[...]

Operations at a methadone clinic in Sudbury won’t be affected even though a doctor who helps run it has been accused of disgraceful and unprofessional conduct. Concerns have been mounting since the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario issued a notice of hearing against Dr.[...]

Challenging Greater Sudbury Police officers to a fight can result in a faceful of pepper spray, a young Greater Sudbury man found out one morning last month.[...]

Eric Dallaire will find out this spring if he is going to jail for breaking into several CP Rail shipping containers in the rail-w ay’s Cartier yard area last October.[...]

CHAMBER LIKES PLAN The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce is endorsing a recently released draft Downtown Master Plan and Action Strategy.[...]

TORONTO — After scoring eight points in three games with four goals and four assists, The Ontario Hockey League is recognizing Michael Sgarbossa as the OHL Player of the Week. The Sudbury Wolf began his week scoring a goal and two assists as second star of a 5-3 win over the Sault Ste.[...]

A Chelmsford woman who turned her life around after being arrested for her role in fencing jewelry stolen to pay for her drug habit won’t be spending time in jail.[...]

The Cambrian Golden Shield women’s volleyball team is hoping their seasons’ similarities will come to an end. The Shield have identical records in two straight seasons, 19-1, and have two back-to- back East Division titles.[...]

The ongoing issue of slush funds given to city councillors has compelled me to write to you about my observations in Ward 1, where I live. A number of years ago, before the city created 12 wards, I thought I should observe a budget meeting to witness its protocols so I could be better informed.[...]

FATAL ACCIDENT VICTIM IDENTIFIED A Sudbury woman killed in a Highway 400 accident has been identified. On Monday, 75-year-old Judith McColeman and her husband, also 75, were in a single-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of Highway 400, near Muskoka Road 38.[...]

Only in the odd, upside-down, un-reality world in which government bureaucrats live could the idea flourish that they are doing a better job by not doing their job at all.[...]