By Darlene Wroe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter DISTRICT – Members of the area’s historical community are working at forming a new umbrella organization to support local heritage museums and groups. Maggie Wilson, president of the Cobalt Historical Society, Felicity Buckell of the Cobalt Mining Museum, and Sarah Johnston of the Haileybury Heritage Museum (and also the Cobalt Historical Society) are seeking to create a district-wide organization with the common objective of preserving local history. Wilson related in an email interview that the group met in the spring to discuss current projects, including the digitization of the Haileyburian newspaper that had been printed locally in the first half of the twentieth century. Wilson said that the group “discussed formal alliances between the two Cobalt heritage agencies, and how we could improve information…
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