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Five local youth—Avery Barnes, Kristen Bowerman, Silva Verboom, Benjamin Willis, and Amara Wilson-Zegil—are vying for the Providence Bay Fair Ambassador title on August 21.

Manitoulin East Airport signed a 30-year lease for a 110-acre solar farm by Compass Greenfield. Generating 19 MW annually, it will fund airport operations and reduce taxes.

The MNR explained that recent Lake Manitou flooding was caused by a combination of drought, an aging, leaking dam, and heavy winter ice that prevented controlled water release.

Little Current native Mark Varey’s three-year-old filly, Hawberry, won her maiden race at Woodbine on May 23. Despite 18-1 odds, she surged to victory, marking a successful win for her first-time owner.

MANITOULIN—Manitoulin Streams Island-wide cleanup is underway and with it something new—the Bridge-to-Boat Cleanup. Highway 6 from the swing bridge south to South Baymouth has been nicely divided into one-kilometre chunks and Manitoulin Streams is hoping the community will step up and get this portion

MANITOULIN—As waterways across Manitoulin continue to flood, Manitoulin Streams is keeping a close eye on the state of the tributaries, hopeful that the restoration work they have done over the years is hanging on despite the torrents of water. Seija Deschenes, Manitoulin Streams project coordinator, believes their work will

LITTLE CURRENT—Following a meeting with Little Current’s business community on concerns with recycling and Ontario’s new “producer responsibility” system that shifts the costs of recycling away from the municipality, Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Bill Rosenberg made a number of significant funding announcements at the Town of Northeastern Manitoulin