Submitted photos Students across the District have been returning to school through staggered re-entry since last Thursday. The boards and province have implemented a wide variety of safety measures, including masks and self-screening. High School students have two classes per day, with four semesters, while younger students are co-horted to […]

With broken hearts we announce that our loving mother and grandmother left us on September 4, 2020. She passed away peacefully at home with her loving son by her side, just as she would have wished. Marvel was born September 15, 1937 and spent her whole life in the Emo […]

Submitted photos Students across the District have been returning to school through staggered re-entry since last Thursday. The boards and province have implemented a wide variety of safety measures, including masks and self-screening. High School students have two classes per day, with four semesters, while younger students are co-horted to […]

Submitted photos Students across the District have been returning to school through staggered re-entry since last Thursday. The boards and province have implemented a wide variety of safety measures, including masks and self-screening. High School students have two classes per day, with four semesters, while younger students are co-horted to […]

Submitted photos Students across the District have been returning to school through staggered re-entry since last Thursday. The boards and province have implemented a wide variety of safety measures, including masks and self-screening. High School students have two classes per day, with four semesters, while younger students are co-horted to […]

John Christopher Esselink went home to be with his Lord on August 31, 2020. John was born November 24, 1924 in Barchem, Gelderland, Netherlands to Gerrit and Elisabeth (Lisa) Esselink; the third child of six, with two brothers and three sisters. During WWII, John hid from the Germans at his […]

Marcella Louise Desrosiers, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away after a battle with cancer Monday, August 31, 2020 at the age of 73. Marcella was born on March 31, 1947 to Augustine and Isabelle Desrosiers. She spent most of her life in Fort Frances and spent many happy years with […]

Submitted photo Dentists at the Fort Frances Dental Centre are wearing enhanced protective personal equipment to limit a possible spread of COVID-19. Most dental clinics now have an extra PPE charge applied to all aerosol-generating procedures. -Submitted Photo

Today’s marketplace is saturated with almost every type of bottled, enveloped or canned sauce imaginable. Homemade sauces, in many households, have taken a “back-seat” to the readymade and quick varieties that seem to fit into our hectic lifestyles. When we think of making sauces from scratch, many people conjure up […]

It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of David Ross Chapman, 69, on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at Downey Retirement Centre, L.A. Calif. where he died peacefully. He was predeceased by his parents Ross and Lorraine Chapman. He was born August 15, 1951 at La Verendrye Hospital […]

It is with great sadness that the family of Sharlene Beninger announces her passing on September 6, 2020 at the age of 69. Sharlene was born on February 28, 1951 in Fort Frances, Ontario. Sharlene is survived by her son Murray Jr. and grandchildren; Trey, Mya, Paul and Gage; sister […]

Sadly the family announces the passing of Geraldine Archie, 78, of Big Grassy River First Nation on August 31, 2020 at the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital. Geraldine is survived by her four children Glenn (Yvonne), Daryl (Mary), Tim, (Lisa), Deana (Gerry); her two brothers Robert, Sam; her sister Bridgette (Carl); […]