By Bernard Condon The Associated Press NEW YORK — It’s a glittering jewel in Donald Trump’s hotel empire. Securing the rights to use the government-owned building where it is housed took him more than a year of negotiating. The resulting lease itself runs hundreds of pages, complicated and dreadfully dull. […]
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The Associated Press NEW YORK — It took two hours of sifting through more than 200 bags of garbage at a New Jersey trash-transfer station before a New York City woman was reunited with three rings she mistakenly discarded. The New York Daily News reports (http://nydn.us/2gHQkH6 ) the 34-year-old woman […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Sweet potato slices are the latest rage in the avocado toast trend. If you are at all involved with Pinterest, you know this already. Pop slices of unpeeled sweet potato in a regular old toaster and then top it with healthy goodies like the […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s government struck a deal with a minor party on Thursday on a tax rate aimed at encouraging foreign travellers to pick fruit on the nation’s farms. The conservative government and the left-wing Greens party reached a compromise on how much […]
By Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW — In a conciliatory state-of-the-nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday voiced hope for mending a rift with the U.S. and pooling efforts in fighting terrorism. The speech reflected Moscow’s hope that President-elect Donald Trump could help repair ties with Washington that […]
The Ontario government must believe that we all have better bladders in winter than in the summer. I make this comment having travelled numerous times to Thunder Bay and noticed all the pull-off rest stops are now blocked and marked as closed. The gates are across the entrances and even […]
Do you know Yo-Yo Ma? He doesn’t call me at home to ask advice, nor do we meet for coffee to exchange stories, but I do consider Yo-Yo Ma my friend. I’m not sure he is aware of that fact but I don’t think he would mind me saying so. […]
There is that frozen moment in time between this second and the next when all possible scenarios play out as a movie in which I’m in a long, long hallway and being sucked toward an inevitable fate. . . . I was on a reconnaissance mission of sorts in my […]
Over the past weekend, I was invited out to Shoal Lake #39 to participate in its second-annual fisheries conference. Headed by band councillor Karen Kejick, there’s a push being made by Shoal Lake #39 to open the walleye fishery on Shoal Lake for both sport-fishing and commercial fishing activities to […]
Joey Payeur Darryl McLeod followed in his father’s footsteps—and the path wound up lasting more than three-and-a-half decades. Last month marked the end of McLeod’s 37-year career with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, 34 of which were spent here in Fort Frances. The Red Lake native knew early […]
Joey Payeur Jenna Walsh had one of her best friends prove last week the size of the town one is from doesn’t matter when it comes to achieving curling greatness. The former Devlin resident was overjoyed when Stratton native Trevor Bonot, along with his sister, Jackie McCormick, and Thunder Bay’s […]
Heather Latter Maria Gilbert was thrilled to see the joy on the faces of students in the “Best Buddies” program at Fort Frances High School yesterday morning as they viewed the toys, games, and supplies lining the table in a classroom. Gilbert, a Grade 11 student there, purchased and donated […]
