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The Burntwood Regional Health Authority (BRHA) recently released its regional pandemic preparedness health services plan to city council. The plan includes a message from CEO Gloria King, Dr.

Wapanohk Community School students went home for lunch on May 14 with letters from the principal informing them of a "general threat" on a bathroom wall, but classes continued as scheduled in the afternoon.

A gardener from Grassmasters rakes up lawn clippings from in front of Rotary Place on Westwood Drive May 7.

The second phase of the Spirit Way rockface sculpture along Mystery Lake Road below Highland Towers has been moved to the backburner as the organization concentrates on getting its wolf park and aboriginal art centre started, says Spirit Way voluntee

A representative of Dolly Parton Foundation's Imagination Library was in Thompson on the week of May 10 to spread the word about the initiative that looks to increase literacy and a love of reading in pre-school children.

A worker installs a "Community Pride" flag on a light standard near the Thompson Public Library May 12.

Twenty years from now, Thompson's population may have grown enough that the people who live here today wouldn't recognize the city, says Shaun Klassen, a planner with AECOM, the company providing technical and management support to the City of Thomps

A colour guard made up of members of Thompson Fire and Emergency Services (EMS), accompanied by bagpiper and fire Capt. Blair Buchanan, stood at attention outside of St. John's United Church on Caribou Road in Thompson May 13 for the funeral of Coun.

Charged with criminal negligence causing death

Not everyone will see that; some will see less, others even more before Oct. 27 municipal election