Local News from Across the Rainy River District
SASKATOON – Late misses helped decide a wild, entertaining and rather shocking women’s final at Canada’s Olympic curling trials on Sunday. Jennifer Jones stunningly blew a golden opportunity to win the game in the 10th end. The timing of Tracy Fleury’s error in the extra end proved even more costly. […]
There is an opportunity to brighten the Christmas of the residents of the Rainycrest Long Term Care Centre. This is the third year for the Tree of Christmas Giving at the centre. The initiative has gone over well the last few years, Kathryn Pierroz, communications coordinator with Riverside Healthcare, said. […]
Employees of the Fort Frances Power Corp. were busy decorating for Christmas on Scott St. Wednesday, making sure the snowflakes were all lit up, and baskets hung. The makeover has been made just in time for the Fort Frances Christmas parade, which will run down Scott St. on Saturday starting […]
TORONTO – Modelling suggests Ontario intensive care units could be treating around 200 COVID-19 patients by January, but the head of the agency overseeing the health system says a provincewide reduction in services is less likely to happen during this wave of the pandemic. Dr. Chris Simpson, medical vice-president of […]
IQALUIT – The Canadian military says it has temporarily stopped its water treatment operations in Iqaluit after high winds knocked down one of its tents. The tent, covering holding tanks filled with purified water from a nearby river, was knocked down Monday night. Iqaluit residents haven’t been able to consume […]
Santa is coming! The Fort Frances Santa Claus parade will take place this Saturday, November 27 at 5:30 p.m. It will run down Scott Street from Reid to Mowatt. Masks recommended, and social distancing will be encouraged. Brought to you by the Kiwanis Club of Fort Frances. Christmas Hamper applications […]
The Fort Frances Kraft Mill will be demolished through an explosive detonation on Saturday, Nonmember 27, between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. A 300-metre radius will be closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic until the blast is complete. Road closures will include Sinclair and Elizabeth, Church and Victoria, Scott and […]
(FORT FRANCES, ON) – On November 14, 2021, at approximately 1:00 a.m., members of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were conducting general patrols in the Town of Fort Frances when they observed a motor vehicle stopped in the middle of the intersection of Portage […]
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. abortions appear to be inching up after a long decline, though officials are cautious about calling it an upward trend because a government report issued Wednesday is incomplete. National abortion figures in 2017 reached their lowest level since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that […]
SOCHI, Russia (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow would continue providing natural gas to Serbia on terms favorable to its ally. Putin voiced confidence that a new contract for gas supplies to Serbia would be signed quickly to replace the current one that expires at year-end. […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Crimped by the coronavirus pandemic last year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returned Thursday in full, though with precautions. Balloons, floats, marching bands, clowns and performers – and, of course, Santa Claus – once again wended though 2 1/2 miles (4 kilometers) of Manhattan streets, instead […]
