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Council resignation leaves one seat open

Lisa Dumontier The Municipality of Red Lake will spend the next sixty days working to fill a vacancy on Council after the March 30th, 2012 resignation of Councillor Jason Baker. On leave since January, Baker’s seat [...]

Local ratepayers to foot the bill for Centennial Park damage

Local ratepayers to foot the bill for Centennial Park damage

Lisa Dumontier Area taxpayers will be reaching a little deeper into their pockets to cover the costs associated with rectifying damaged property at Red Lake’s Centennial Park. Assumed to have happened during the evening of April [...]

Municipal reps meet with ministries

By Lisa Dumontier Local concerns were raised with the Government of Ontario last week as Mayor Phil Vinet, Councillors Debra Shushack and Anne Billard, and Municipal CAO Brian Anderson took to the sky to attend the [...]

Municipality continues to lobby against high policing costs

Lisa Dumontier Municipal Mayor Phil Vinet has not given up on the plight to lessen the impact of policing costs for local taxpayers. Continually frustrated by the fact that Red Lake’s policing costs rank amongst the [...]

Red Lake Gold Rush: boom or burden?

On CBC’s The National last week, the Red Lake area was featured as part of a 6 minute news brief on the high price of gold and the effect it has on small gold mining communties. [...]