Photo by Aaron Bell/CHL Images(Photo by Aaron Bell/CHL Images) Earlier this month we asked you to vote for the Top Local Newsmaker of 2015 and the results are in.

Just over 290 votes were cast in our informal, online survey.

North Bay’s Ken Appleby who backstopped the Oshawa Generals to the Memorial Cup and signed an entry level deal with the New Jersey Devils was tops in the poll, earning 18 percent of the vote.

Next at 16 percent was North Bay Fire Fighters, followed by up and coming Country star Cory Marquardt with 13 percent.

Fourth goes to newly elected MP Anthony Rota. 

Porter Airlines, which landed in North Bay this year, rounds out the top 5 in our survey.