Staff Following the completion of regular-season action last night, the opening-round playoffs matches now are set for the Rainy River District Fastball League. The top four teams all earned first-round byes, with the Big Grassy Braves holding home-field advantage throughout the playoffs thanks to their league-best 14-3 record during the […]
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It is with great sadness that the family of Edith Pattison, 89, announces her passing on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 in Fort Frances, Ont. Edith was born May 29, 1923 in Emo, Ont. to David and Elizabeth Woodgate. She was united in marriage to the love of her life, Allan, […]
Heather Latter Mayor Roy Avis welcomed H2O Power to Fort Frances, as company president Jim Gartshore looked on, during the official opening of its facility here yesterday afternoon. The building, located in a wing of the former Fort Frances High School, will be the main office and workshop for the […]
Lucas Punkari Progress on construction of an arena at Couchiching has become more noticeable in recent days. The building of the metal “shell,” which began last week, is expected to be completed next week, with the next stage seeing the outside “skin” being built over a two-month span. The arena […]
Staff The Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society board already has received a few submissions for its contest about people’s best memories of the fall fair in Emo. But board member Robin Payeur said they’d still like to see more entries. Sponsored by the Fort Frances Times, people are being asked […]
Staff Police still are investigating a theft that occurred at the Memorial Sports Centre in the early hours of Sunday following a wedding reception there. When the newly-weds returned to the upstairs hall that afternoon to clean up, they discovered the fireproof safe box was missing. It contained roughly $1,000 […]
the MNR Five new fires were reported in the Northwest Region by late yesterday afternoon but more were expected through the evening. By day’s end on Tuesday, eight new fires had been reported, with most of them in Nipigon District. One, however, was in the northern area of Red Lake […]
Staff Mike Bird, one of the founding members of the local Seniors and Law Enforcement Working Together (S.A.L.T.), was honoured at their meeting yesterday for the work he’s done as he soon will be moving away. “My wife and I are going to live on Vancouver Island,” he explained, noting […]
Marg and Gord Woollard We thought you might like to see that, although reports of widespread destruction of the brown bat in North America due to the so-called white nose fungus periodically are featured in the media, we here in Northwestern Ontario like to think that we have some of […]
Press Release The Assisted Living Action Group (A.L.A.G.) recently completed a regional survey to collect information that would give direction as it moves forward in its efforts to establish an assisted living facility in Rainy River District. The group was encouraged by a strong response from interested residents across the […]
Dave Ogilvie Calvary Baptist Church in Emo is pleased to present “The Wiebes Live in Concert” on Tuesday, July 31 at 7 p.m. Shane and Angela Wiebe have been singing together since the day they met 12 years ago. They soon began performing as a couple, started dating in June […]
Staff Former Fort Frances residents Jon and Aynsley Carrier were vacationing with friends in Missouri, and were present at an incident where a young brother and sister were electrocuted in the lake earlier this month. Alexandra Anderson, 13, and Brayden Anderson, eight, both of Ashland, Mo., died as a result. […]
