Borderland Pride has filed a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal, against the Township of Emo, and three councillors who defeated the group’s Pride resolution. Borderland Pride is joined in its complaint by the Northern Ontario Pride Network, which is an umbrella organization for Pride groups across Ontario’s north, as […]
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Former mill assets will be further dismantled at what’s being advertised as a “mayor four-day multi-million dollar paper mill event.” On the website for Corporate Assets Inc, which specializes in industrial plant auctions, appraisals and asset management, an auction has been scheduled for Monday, August 31 to Thursday, September 3, […]
Lyz Schonauer The rainy River District was treated to a brief but spectacular storm cloud formation yesterday. This was the view from the Point. We’re fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. Keep your camera handy to capture it all, and send us your photos, so we can share […]
Robin McCormick
Devlin correspondent
Devlin correspondent
The timber wolves are causing extreme havoc, killing many young beef cattle in La Vallee. A large number of new born calves and yearlings are being reported frequently to Jim Belluz. Belluz is the Live Stock Evaluator for wolf kills – a job he shares with Tom Morrish. Belluz has […]
I’ve got your number – several of them, in fact. In recognition of the provincial government rolling out a brand-new math curriculum yesterday, this occasional teacher and current daily walker decided to sift through the numbers of this mission I am on with Step Forward and pass along the most […]
So, the plan was to start cutting hay at EARS last week and then the weather changed. The plan is on for this week. It doesn’t take us all that long to cut our research portion of the forages, but we still must clean off the rest of it. I […]
It happened “Along about knee deep in June” a few summers back. It was a beautiful summer morning as the usual crew pulled up to the debating table at the Bakery in Rainy River. I prompted Val for an order of toast and a half-dozen other voices chirped in, “Me […]
Over the last 60 years, multiple plans have been developed to move traffic quickly from both the east and west to the international bridge connecting Fort Frances and International Falls. Traffic movements were studied. With the mill in full operation, much of the traffic arriving in Fort Frances terminated on […]
Marlee Bliss
4-H correspondent
4-H correspondent
The second meeting of the 4-H Devlin Beef Club was called to order at 7:30 pm June 15, at Louis and Aaron Bujold’s garage. We started the meeting by reviewing the agenda and handing out papers that go towards the books. We recited the 4-H pledge at the start of […]
Jack Elliott
Rainy River correspondent
Rainy River correspondent
There is nothing quite like the smell of hot asphalt in the morning. That’s what there was Monday morning in Rainy River as truckloads of asphalt rolled into town and the Pioneer Paving crew fired up their paving train and rollers. Imagine fresh smooth pavement and voila the potholes are […]
I am missing Fort Frances. Maybe not so much the “now” of Fort Frances as the “was” of Fort Frances, not that “was” is better, but simply more familiar to me. When I take a mental snapshot of the Fort Frances I know in my memory, images flash left, right […]
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Kelli Saunders
Kelli Saunders
Rusty crayfish, spiny waterflea, zebra mussels, purple loosestrife, rainbow smelt, narrow-leaved cattail. . . just a few of the more than 15 aquatic/riparian species here in the Lake of the Woods and Rainy River area that have come from somewhere else. They are not native to this part of the […]
