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30 Years Ago Norstar's Sassi Lady Neika, a seven-month-old Samoyed owned by Don and Gay Brown of Thompson, won the Best Puppy in Show award at the Thompson Dog Club all-breed show, marking the first time a Thompson-bred dog had won that award.

It's been 50 years since the Thompson General Hospital came into being in 1960, a milestone which was celebrated with a free community barbeque at the hospital on July 31.

Manitoba Hydro last week completed diversion of the Burntwood River through the spillway gates at Wuskwatim Generating Station at Taskinigup Fall in the last big construction milestone before three fixed-blade propeller vertical shaft generating turb

Do you think Tim Johnston is doing a good job as Mayor of Thompson? Why or why not? Nanette Estabrooks (Aug11Streeter1.jpg): Yes, he had to repair a lot of problems. Mary Carroll (Aug11Streeter2.jpg): I think he's doing a good job.

Self-service checkouts introduced at Safeway a few months ago have proved popular with customers, the company says, but other Thompson stores aren't necessarily planning to move to self-service, currently also available at Wal-Mart.

Flags flew high over the firefighters memorial along the Spirit Way on July 30, but nearby City Hall was obscured as a thick fog rolled into the city.

Limos at the airport; restricted use of front passenger seat

Manitoba Hydro expects power to be fully restored within two hours

The soccer field behind the community centre was invaded by a train as part of Thompson's Homecoming 2010 festivities.

Pilot Ron Johnston, 57, chief executive officer of Expander Energy Inc. in Calgary, was flying Cessna when it vanished from radar in bad weather