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There was plenty to see and do last weekend as Emo celebrated its annual Spring Fever Days celebrations, which ran from Thursday, April 24 to Saturday, April 26, 2025. Businesses throughout town had plenty going on, from special sales to exciting events, including a chance to cuddle with some adorable […]
Members of M. Brady’s grade 4/5 class teamed up to recite the poem “Les Moustaches” by Raymond Plante. Students, in no particular order, are Ciaran Allen, Sawyer Lance, Theo Faragher, Rosina Woodgate, Pearce Spooner, and Henry Spry. The festival wrapped up with its annual highlights showcase on Tuesday night at […]
Special to the Times
(Editor’s note: Ken Kellar sits as a volunteer member of the Fort Frances Library Board. To avoid conflicts of interest, he played no role in the writing or editing of this story.) The 2025 budget for the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre has caused some friction between the town, […]
Press release
Riverside Health Care is proud to launch “Lights, Camera, DIAGNOSIS,” a community-driven fundraising campaign to bring a state-of-the-art MRI to La Verendrye General Hospital and new Digital Radiography units to both La Verendrye General Hospital and the Rainy River Health Centre. “This is an exciting milestone that will help shape […]
Postmaster Marc Sabourin retired from Devlin Canada Post on Friday, April 25, 2025, at 70 years of age. Marc had worked at Devlin Canada Post for nine years, four months, being previously employed as postmaster at Armstrong Station. In total, Marc was employed with Canada Post for 13 years, 9 […]
Now that the Toronto Maple Leafs have made it official they’re a genuine threat to win the Stanley Cup, get ready. Leaf jokes will stop. Parade routes will be more acceptable. The ghosts of Cups past will surface. May 2, 1967, will be re-visited, noting that was the year Canada […]
Festival Results of Monday, April 14, 2025, to Wednesday, April 23, 2025, are as follows: Instrumental Division Results – Monday, April 14 Adjudicator – Nathan Poole CLASS B101 Elementary School Ukulele Group, Own Choice, Grades 3 to 6 FIRST: St. Mary School, Grade 4/5FIA, Directed by Mr. K. Brown CLASS […]
The City of Toronto wants to make itself more beautiful and neighbourhoods healthier. The City of Calgary will give away five thousand trees this year to be planted on people’s property to enhance the canopy of the city. The city of Winnipeg is progressing through consultation and planning to improve […]
A few weeks ago, a Gardening Guru column talked about the positive effects on mental health. This column talks about additional health benefits that gardening can provide. Physical Health Benefits Gardening is a form of exercise as digging, raking, planting, weeding, or harvesting, all these tasks engage multiple muscle groups […]
Well, we had a great cattle sale this past Saturday! We sold 1,547 head for $4,610,188.81. It was incredible and the office staff said it was the first time they ever had the producers pick up their statements and were very pleased. It was the first time I ever wrote […]
