Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Yesterday, Wednesday July 2, Fort Frances Mayor Andrew Hallikas and Mayor Drake Dill of International Falls came together to sign a declaration of friendship between the two municipalities. Following the ceremony Halikas noted that in conversation both mayors acknowledged that citizens of both towns were wary about crossing the border, […]
Ally Lewis joined the Town of Fort Frances as Communications Coordinator and Deputy Clerk in the spring and is learning the ropes of working for municipal government. Lewis comes to Fort Frances from the Kitchener-Waterloo (K-W) region, where she most recently worked in Elmira after growing up in Georgetown, closer […]
The Township of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls launched its expanded Red Pine mountain bike and hiking trails on Friday with a community barbecue and cake to celebrate. The trail expansion comes as the result of a financial partnership between the town and the federal and provincial governments. Both the Federal Economic […]
Near the end of a high school athletic career full of achievements, Grade 12 athlete Payton Dolyny was given a seldom distributed honour by being recognized with the Fort Frances High School Athletes Hall of Fame Award. At the school’s annual awards ceremony held on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, FFHS […]
In December 2024, council requested staff to research the possibility of creating a naming rights policy in an effort to increase Town revenue. That policy was brought to council at Monday night’s meeting and formally adopted. The report, which includes a draft policy, was brought to council by CAO Marcel […]
On May 21, girls from Robert Moore and J.W. Walker schools gathered at the Fort Frances sports fields to take part in a fun-filled day of baseball. Rebecca Tolen is the Youth Outreach Worker at Robert Moore School and helped run the program. “J.W. Walker and Robert Moore were both […]
Annalise “CC” Hayes is well known in the Fort Frances area, the former Muskie Girls captain who saw the team to multiple OFSAA appearances and medals and has now won a championship overseas and is bringing her hockey knowledge home to the Fort Frances area for a week of hockey […]
On Thursday, May 22, 2025, a number of community members gathered to speak out against the abuse of women and children as part of the Moose Hide Campaign. “The Moose Hide Campaign began as a BC-born Indigenous-led grassroots movement to engage men and boys in ending violence towards women and […]
After years of having Gerber farms eggs coming from elsewhere, egg production on a greater scale has been brought back to the farm. This spring, Micha Gerber and his wife Tina accepted delivery of a new state of the art “enriched colony” chicken housing system, as well as 1,344 Babcock […]
It was a search for a puppy that saw David Goodman Sr. end up with his 99-year-old Ford Model T. “I was actually on Kijiji looking for a Labrador pup, I think,” Goodman recalled. “I happened to come across this ad that caught my attention and it was for just […]
In an April 28 meeting of Fort Frances Town Council, a bylaw was enacted to sign an agreement with LiveBarn Inc. to provide online video streaming services for the Ice For Kids Arena and ‘52 Canadians arena. At the April 14 meeting of council, a report was presented by Human […]
On Saturday, May 24, Séan McCann, former singer and multi-instrumentalist in Newfoundland folk rock band Great Big Sea, will bring some of the band’s music to Fort Frances along with some of the music he’s created since the band dissolved. McCann announced he would be leaving Great Big Sea in […]
