SPRY–Born to Tyler and Leanne, nee Beck, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Henry Michael, weighing 5 lbs. 9 oz. on January 1, 2014 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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Duane Hicks The tally of unpaid fines under the Provincial Offences Act (POA) keeps getting higher because the town has limited powers to collect them. The topic of uncollected fines came up during last night’s council meeting, at which the write-off of the 2007 POA accounts receivable in the amount […]
Press Release David Bouchard calls his passion for stories a gift from his great-grandmother. As a young boy growing up in Gravelbourg, Sask., the award-winning author and advocate for literacy would visit the elderly woman weekly. Long after her death, Bouchard is convinced his great-grandmother’s spirit also helped him discover […]
Staff It was an up-and-down day for the four Muskie court teams yesterday in Dryden. The junior boys’ basketball team improved their NorWOSSA record to 5-0 with a 43-38 victory over the Eagles (0-4). But the senior Muskies (3-2) couldn’t pull out an overtime thriller against the host Eagles (3-1), […]
Duane Hicks Merv Ahrens, left, and Bob Dakin checked out a map of the town indicating changes to the zoning bylaw at last night’s council meeting. A public meeting was held regarding the new bylaw, which has been simplified for ease of use. The bylaw will be finalized at the […]
Press Release Resolute Forest Products Inc. today announced an extended period of market-related outage for paper machine #5 (PM5) at its mill here. The specific length of this outage has not been determined at this time. PM5 has an annual production capacity of roughly 97,000 metric tons of groundwood specialty […]
Duane Hicks Jeremy Nussbaumer hoisted a tree onto the trailer along Armit Avenue on Saturday during the Fort Frances Fire Brigade’s annual Christmas tree pick-up. Teams spent the afternoon combing the curbs to pick up trees and take them to the wood chipper—while also collecting donations to give to a […]
Staff It was a loss they couldn’t afford to take. The Tracy Horgan rink from Sudbury, with Devlin’s Jenna Enge playing second, fell 8-6 to Cathy Auld (Mississauga) in the second of three draws Friday at the 2014 Ontario Scotties provincial women’s curling championship in Sault Ste. Marie. Despite beating […]
Joey Payeur Cayden Onagi of the St. James Canadians was in perfect shooting position against Fort Frances Canadians’ goalie Spencer Murphy during the first period of the ‘A’ final of the local PeeWee ‘AA’ tournament yesterday at the Ice For Kids Arena. Murphy made the stop but St. James skated […]
Joey Payeur Stratton native Trevor Bonot, now curling out of Thunder Bay, gave his sweepers an emphatic order to “whoa” during the second end against Dan Lemieux of Sault Ste. Marie in the opening draw of the Travelers 2014 Men’s West qualifier here Friday morning. Bonot beat Lemieux 7-2 but […]
