Archive for February 2010

Green’s Olympic debut Friday

Feb 24th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Top News

See Brendan Green on the big screen

Hay Riverites are being reminded to wear green this Friday to show their support for local Olympian Brendan Green.

The 23 year-old Green is competing in his first Olympic Games and is coming off a first place finish in the IBU cup 10 km sprint race in Martel, Italy on [...]



Fishermen vote to leave Freshwater

Feb 24th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Local Stories

In a historic move members of the Northwest Territories Fishermen’s Federation voted last week to leave the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation (FFMC).



Firefighters take second at territorials

Feb 24th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Sports

Sometimes second best is just good enough.



Hay River takes three banners at NWT champs

Feb 17th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Sports

School teams gathered on Hay River ice over the weekend to compete in the 2010 NWT School Curling Championships, the tenth event of its kind.



Town takes aim at ‘immoral’ businesses with bylaw review

Feb 17th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Local Stories

The Town of Hay River is examining whether it can lawfully regulate what can be sold within the town limits.



Deh Cho Bridge over budget

Feb 17th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Top News

Already one year behind schedule, the Government of the Northwest Territories announced Friday that the Deh Cho Bridge is now officially over budget.

Government officials stated that the bridge, which will span the Mackenzie River near Fort Providence and replace both the Merv Hardie ferry and Mackenzie River ice crossing when completed, is now projected [...]



Justice group questions cost of MGP

Feb 10th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Top News

The requirement came after Yellowknife-based social justice group Alternatives North filed a notice of motion on Thursday with the NEB regarding the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).
In the notice, which is signed by Alternatives North co-chair Suzette Montreuil, the group asks that the pipeline proponents provide up-to-date information, arguing that the numbers currently being used are at least three years old.



From Hub paperboy to Comedy Central

Feb 10th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Local Stories

Levi MacDougall has played many roles in life, from a man who repeatedly loses his cell phone signal at the most inopportune times to Christian saviour Jesus Christ. But there’s one role you probably never knew he played: paperboy.



Oldtimers take over for weekend

Feb 10th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Sports

Team Blue thumps Team Black 7 – 2 to take ‘B’ title at the annual Oldtimer’s tourney over the weekend.



Recycle? Watch this.

Feb 10th, 2010 | By admin | Category: World News

NEWS COURTESY ENGADGET © 2010 / www.engadget.com
MOVIE VIA diginfo.tv © 2010
We would love to have these printers here. There’s next to nothing in regard to paper recycling, at least for home users. Take a trip to the town’s dump, you will understand. And with this, enter Japan, the place where all good things come from.
ENGADGET: [...]