Around the North

The Sharpe Group of Stratton has been awarded a $3-million Ontario government contract to replace a Highway 11 bridge near Atikokan. Work begins this spring with completion later in the year. In a Dec.

The Sudbury Community Foundation has received $50,000 in FedNor money to fund a study into developing a convention centre in Sudbury ’s downtown.

The City of Dryden announced that the sale of its landline and Internet assets of Dryden Municipal Telephone System (DMTS) to Bell Aliant is now complete.

Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is playing Kris Kringle in the Timmins-James Bay area with money for nine companies. Villeneuve Construction gets $1 million for construction of a new head office in Hearst.

Four small businesses in northwestern Ontario are receiving Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) money to create 16 jobs. Funding of $125,000 has them sizzling with excitement at the Bijou Steakhouse, a 55-seat restaurant in Kenora .

The Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH) in Sudbury is the recipient of $1 million in funding from the province, which will go towards establishing a research chair.

The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) is disappointed that the province's Liberal leadership candidates will not attend a second debate in Northern Ontario.

One million dollars from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) will get the pellets popping out of a new mill at KD Logging near New Liskeard and the creation of 15 jobs.

Prominent Sudbury businessman and philanthropist Gerry Lougheed Sr. has died at the age of 83. Lougheed, who established Lougheed’s Funeral Home and Flower Shop with his wife Marguerite in 1952, died at home on Dec. 16 surrounded by family.

The lack of a coherent plan to develop transportation infrastructure in the Ring of Fire is hurting the exploration financing scene in Ontario, says a leading business law firm. Fasken Martineau issued a Dec.