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Chris Sharpe, the new cultural co-ordinator for the City of Thompson, has been bringing different musical acts into the city to perform at MacLean Park every Friday at noon during the summer as part of the city's Concerts in the Park initiative.

A truck splashes through a massive puddle on Thompson Drive near the City Centre Mall July 15, when 38.4 millimetres of rain fell in Thompson.

Skeletal remains that were found in a wooded area just off a hydro power line east of Thompson have been positively identified as 37-year-old Bernard Carlo Hart. Thompson RCMP received a report that Hart was missing from Oxford House on June 6.

Businesses throughout the City of Thompson are hiring students as young as 14 years old, but many of them are divided on whether or not these students make for good employees.

Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs (ANA) Local Government Development Division - Northern Region has hired on a number of new employees recently.

A break-in at Mystery Mountain Winter Park on June 22 caused an estimated $30,000 to $40,000 damage, says Thompson Ski Club past president Geoff Lamontagne. "It's just a mess," he said. "They used the quad they stole from the horseowners.

Churchill MP Niki Ashton was the most impassioned of more than a dozen speakers who outlined their objections to Greyhound's application to discontinue service on the Thompson-Flin Flon route and the Snow Lake-Ponton van service at a Motor Transport

Civilian searchers located the body of missing Gods River youth Christopher Justin James in the Burntwood River July 12. Thompson RCMP received a report at approximately 1:30 p.m.

The new cultural coordinator at the City of Thompson under the City's Department of Recreation, Parks and Culture is looking to draw on his experiences in places like California, Hawaii, England, New York and Jamaica and his background in digital mul

Last night's city council meeting featured a special presentation from Volker Beckmann of Design North and Mark Matiasek from Thompson Unlimited on Thompson becoming the wolf capital of Canada.